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Displaying 35 of about 35 resultsFollowing the devastation that was caused by 2 hurricanes in 2008, Los Palacios, a Western Cuban farming community is still trying to recover and they are preparing for the next hurricane season, reports Alertnet. Some of the new houses have been built using palm trees that fell during the storms, and most of them are made with stronger roofs and more s…
Una eficaz herramienta para el cumplimiento de las regulaciones urbanísticas en medio del auge constructivo experimentado en el país, pondrá el Instituto Nacional de Planificación Física (INPF) a disposición de entidades estatales ejecutoras y emprendimientos por cuenta propia, a mediado de diciembre venidero.
“Si bien es cierto que en gestión de per…
Geneva, 12 October 2017 - Following the devastation wrought on his Caribbean island home by Hurricane Maria, the Prime Minister of Dominica, Mr. Roosevelt Skerrit, is calling on the world not “to turn its back” on the problem of climate change and for greater investment in disaster risk reduction.
In a message for International Day for Disaster Re…
By Dan Stothart
Many people have probably only heard of Dominica in passing. Most would confuse this tiny Caribbean island with the Dominican Republic, its larger sister to the northeast. Still, some might remember Hurricane Maria slamming through Dominica in September before the news channels filled with the devastation that Maria then wrought on Pue…
New York – Six months after two of the most powerful hurricanes recorded over the Atlantic wreaked havoc in the Caribbean, women and men in island countries like Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, British Virgin Islands and St. Maarten are working around the clock to build back better, with another hurricane season only four months away. In the immediate hu…