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GPP calls for investment in early warning systems

Mar 19, 2011 News

“This week we all became aware once again of what the rainy season can do to us…The lack of an early warning system can be disastrous for our nation.”
This was pointed out by the Guyana Peoples Partnership (GPP) which is calling for a greater need for there to be better early warning systems.
The party suggested that there is need for an investment in an early warning system and for the government to install sirens and speaker systems throughout the coastal plains with the appropriate warnings.
“Such an Outdoor Warning System is designed to alert residents about possible danger.
Specific emergency announcements can be broadcast over any of these sirens which should be located on poles and on top of buildings throughout all neighbourhoods.”
“We need our Government to feed off of the US National Disaster Weather System until we can obtain our own…Start the move of residents of the coastal plain to a new city above sea-level…Use current technology that automatically dials cell phones and land lines with warning systems.”
The GPP has also called on the Government to provide the Civil Defence Unit, which is tasked to ensure disaster readiness, with the appropriate tools.
“We need to be prepared for disasters; we need to be educated on how to act; we need to be informed prior to such events as early as possible; and the business community need to develop business recovery plan and test it regularly…Businesses need to be ready because the cost of downtime can shut you down permanently…As  private citizens, we need our official agencies to notify us in a timely manner.”
The GPP says that it would rather see the tax payers dollars not being wasted and efficient systems be put in place to prepare the citizens for such disasters.
“The Minister of Agriculture has failed in its duties of drainage and irrigation.”

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