ELIZ­A­BETH GON­ZA­LES

GML Cor­re­spon­dent

Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness and Man­age­ment, Ma­jor Gen­er­al Rod­ney Smart, said it is im­por­tant for To­ba­go to brace for a chal­leng­ing wet sea­son this year.

Speak­ing with CNC3 dur­ing the ODPM's an­nu­al Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness Month cam­paign at the Low­lands Mall in To­ba­go, Ma­jor Gen­er­al Smart said the is­land must lis­ten to the sci­en­tists and take ac­tion to strength­en its de­fens­es for what will come.

“Even though i’m say­ing we are ready, we will con­tin­ue im­prov­ing our­selves and com­mu­ni­ties,” he said, “so at the end of the day, it’s not or­ga­ni­za­tions that are re­spond­ing, it’s the com­mu­ni­ties that are be­com­ing pre­pared.”

With the Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Of­fice fore­casts in­di­cat­ing an ac­tive hur­ri­cane sea­son, Ma­jor Gen­er­al said the ODPM is de­ter­mined to en­sure that the mes­sage of pre­pared­ness reach­es every cor­ner of the coun­try.