Month: September 2019

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Webinar: Integrating Sustainability into Daily Decision-Making Wednesday, October 9, 2019 2:00PM-3:00PM EST (1:00pm-2:00pm CST, 12:00pm-1:00pm MST, 11:00am-12:00pm PST) Register In light of an ever changing climate, increasingly stressed infrastructure, and growing financial pressures, integrated water management and embedding sustainability into daily practices is becoming more and more important to the success of water systems. In […]

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This Webinar and will cover the needs and challenges that tourism facilities face in terms of their wastewater treatment systems. To register, please see the following link: https://attendee.gototraining.com/r/477022420737999361  

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) recently kicked off a project to make Dominica’s water supply resilient to climate change and tackle inequalities in the access to water. With support from the United Kingdom through CDB, a strategic plan, a feasibility study and detailed designs are under development to help the Government of […]

By Peter Beaumont The destruction caused by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas could cost “hundreds of millions, if not billions” of dollars to repair, according to the deputy prime minister, as aerial images showed whole neighbourhoods destroyed. With the death toll climbing to seven and scores more still missing, helicopters operated by the US Coast Guard among […]

With peak winds of 185 mph, Hurricane Dorian is the strongest storm on record to strike the Bahamas, and threatens to bring hurricane-force winds, coastal flooding and other impacts to the east coast of Florida and Southeast U.S. It also ranks as tied for the 2nd-strongest storm (as judged by its maximum sustained winds) ever […]

By Tim Stelloh and Rachel Alves de Lima Hurricane Dorian tore across the Bahamas on Sunday as a historically powerful hurricane, leaving scenes of devastation in its path. When the Category 5 hurricane made landfall on Great Abaco Island, east of Miami, on Sunday at 2 p.m., Dorian’s maximum sustained winds were 185 mph — an Atlantic hurricane […]

The country’s parametric insurance coverage through the CCRIF SPC (formerly Caribbean Catastrophic Risk Insurance Facility) will likely kick in due to the strength and devastation of Hurricane Dorian, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Peter Turnquest told Guardian Business yesterday, adding that the government will also likely have to turn to the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) […]