{"id":22365,"date":"2012-06-06T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=22365"},"modified":"2012-06-12T10:53:59","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T14:53:59","slug":"nema-commences-disaster-preparedness-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/06\/nema-commences-disaster-preparedness-week","title":{"rendered":"NEMA Commences Disaster Preparedness Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22366\" title=\"nema-church\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/nema-church.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/nema-church.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/nema-church-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/nema-church-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NASSAU, The Bahamas &#8211; The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, kicked off its National Disaster Preparedness Week worshipping at Ebenezer Methodist Church on Sunday, June 3, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Purpose of the week is to educate and prepare the country to respond to any disaster, natural or man-made.<\/p>\n<p>The week June 3-9 is being held under the theme: &#8220;Building Resilient Communities Through Mitigation and Preparedness\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the week\u2019s activities, NEMA will conduct a walk-about in the communities educating the public about the importance of preparation, appear on radio talk shows, conduct seminars, and mount an exhibition Friday and Saturday in Rawson Square.<\/p>\n<p>Pictured amongst group from left are Captain Stephen Russell, Director, NEMA; Luke Bethel, Operations\/Training Officer; NEMA; Carl Smith, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of National Security; and seventh left is Rev. Dr. Godfrey Bethel, Pastor, Ebenezer Methodist Church. Pictured far right is Rev Christopher Neely. (Photo\/NEMA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, kicked off its National Disaster Preparedness Week worshipping at Ebenezer Methodist Church on Sunday, June 3, 2012. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[133,181,122],"class_list":["post-22365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-community","tag-hurricane","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}