The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) is a inter-regional supportive network of independent emergency units throughout the Caribbean region. The Caribbean, (Spanish: Caribe; French: Caraïbe or more commonly Antilles; Dutch: Cariben or Caraïben, or more commonly Antillen) or the West Indies, is a group of islands and countries which are in or border the Caribbean Sea which lies on the Caribbean Plate. ...

The participating member states and agencies of the CDERA include:

•  Anguilla

Unknown / Only a coordinator

•  Antigua and Barbuda

National Office of Disaster Services (NODS)

•  Barbados

Central Emergency Relief Organization (CERO)

•  Bahamas

Disaster Management Unit

•  Belize

National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO)

• British Virgin Islands

Department of Disaster Management

•  Dominica

Unknown / Only a coordinator

•  Grenada

National Disaster Management Agency (NaDMA)

•  Guyana

Civil Defense Commission

•  Jamaica

Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM)

•  Montserrat

Disaster Management Coordination Agency

•  Saint Kitts and Nevis

National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA)

•  Saint Lucia

National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO)

•  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Unknown / Only a coordinator

•  Trinidad and Tobago

National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA)

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Activities

In recent years the role of the CDERA has been mostly to provide assistance to member territories after the passage of particularly fierce hurricanes. Such roll out of CDERA personnel was witnessed for Grenada and Jamaica in early September, 2004 after the passage of Hurricane Ivan. This article is about weather phenomena. ... Look up September in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hurricane Ivan was the ninth named storm, the sixth hurricane, the fourth major hurricane, and the strongest hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season. ...

During the mid 1990's, the sudden eruption by the Soufriere Hills volcano in Montserrat also caused the CDERA to spring into action, to provide additional support to the people on the island. The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) also regularly monitors the Soufriere Hills volcano, in addition to the active undersea volcano named Kick-'em-Jenny to the north of Grenada. The Soufriere Hills volcano is a complex stratovolcano with many lava domes forming its summit on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. ... Location map of submarine volcano Kick-em-Jenny Kick-em-Jenny is an active submarine volcano on the Caribbean sea floor 8 km north of the island of Grenada and about 8 km west of Ronde Island in the Grenadines at Latitude: 12. ...

In situations of emergency where a military force might be needed, members of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States and Barbados may likely turn to the Eastern Caribbean Regional Security System [1] for assistance, while then possibly using the CDERA as a backup support agency to the RSS. The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) includes the member states of: Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda British Virgin Islands Dominica Grenada Montserrat Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines The OECS was created on 18 June 1981, with the Treaty of Basseterre, named after the capital...

External link

• Agency homepage