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On Tuesday, September 23, Acting Prime Minister Philip Davis, United States Charg\u00e8 d\u2019Affaires a.i. Lisa Johnson, and Director of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Captain Stephen Russell along with other senior U.S. and Bahamian government officials, participated in the official opening of the North and Central Bahamas Disaster Conference held at the Melia Nassau Beach Resort in Nassau.<\/p>\n
The conference is the fourth in an ongoing series of conferences sponsored by the United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) for island administrators and disaster relief personnel in The Bahamas.\u00a0\u00a0 During the three-day event, Family Island administrators, councilors, government personnel, and police and defence force officials will participate in a series of dialogues on disaster planning and mitigation.\u00a0 The sessions are facilitated by subject matter experts representing NEMA, USNORTHCOM and the Pacific Disaster Center.<\/p>\n
While addressing the official opening, Charg\u00e9 Johnson thanked the Government of The Bahamas and NEMA for their continued support and partnership, noting that as leaders,\u00a0 they all share the joint responsibility as leaders to take the necessary precautions to be prepared before disasters strike.\u00a0 She also highlighted USNORTHCOM\u2019s ongoing support of joint capacity building efforts with NEMA that include similar disaster preparedness conferences and the recent donation of a $1M disaster relief warehouse in Freeport, Grand Bahama in February of this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis critical three-day conference illustrates the United States Government\u2019s steadfast commitment to partnering with The Bahamas on every level.\u201d\u00a0 The Charg\u00e9 added, \u201cThis conference also demonstrates my steadfast promise to use U.S. Embassy resources to assist local communities in strengthening preparedness efforts before the inevitable occurs.\u201d<\/p>\n
NEMA and USNORTHCOM are now working together to construct a third disaster relief warehouse to provide critical assistance in the southern Bahamas to compliment the donated warehouses in New Providence and Grand Bahama.\u00a0 The third warehouse will contain pre-staged disaster relief supplies and is tentatively planned to be constructed at the Royal Bahamas Defence Force base in Matthew Town, Great Inagua. Acting Prime Minister Philip Davis, United States Charg\u00e8 d\u2019Affaires a.i. Lisa Johnson, and Director of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Captain Stephen Russell along with other senior U.S. and Bahamian government officials, participated in the official opening of the North and Central Bahamas Disaster Conference held at the Melia Nassau Beach Resort in Nassau. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":80984,"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":[204,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80978","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nUnited States Embassy, Nassau<\/em><\/span>
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\nCaptions: From left:\u00a0 Mr. Jerry Smith, USNORTHCOM representative, Dr. Erin Hughley, Director of Disaster Services, Pacific Disaster Center, Acting Prime Minister Philip Davis, U.S. Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires Lisa Johnson, CDR Samuel Wartell, Senior Defense Attach\u00e9, U.S. Embassy and Captain Stephen Russell, Director of NEMA.<\/em><\/span>
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\nActing Prime Minister Philip Davis, U.S. Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires Lisa Johnson with senior U.S. and Bahamian officials and Family Island representatives.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"