At the 10th Caribbean Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management, delegates recommitted themselves to advancing school safety in the Caribbean.

Pictured signing the Petition on Caribbean Safe School Programme are Ronald Jackson, Executive Director, CDEMA and Captain Stephen Russell, Director, NEMA. The Bahamas is hosting the 10th Caribbean Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM), December 4 -9, 2017 at Melia Nassau Beach resort.

The conference is facilitated by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), and the involvement of its 18 Participating States: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Islands and the Virgin Islands. (BIS Photo/Sydnei Isaacs)