PAY ATTENTION TO WEATHER MESSAGES - ODPEM DIRECTOR GENERAL

PAY ATTENTION TO WEATHER MESSAGES - ODPEM DIRECTOR GENERAL

Kingston November 15, 2010

ODPEM Director General
Ronald Jackson

Director General of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management, Ronald Jackson, has urged news writers to be careful not to confuse meterological conditions. He was referring to the fact that it was extreme rainfall and not Tropical Storm Nicole that brought severe weather conditions to Jamaica at the end of September.

Addressing the Public Relations Society of Jamaica at his office on Monday, November 15, Mr Jackson said that it was important to make these distinctions as climate change would be bringing more severe weather to the Caribbean as it was elsewhere in the world and that the public needs to be aware of what weather bulletins advise.

Mr Jackson also said that it has observed that Jamaicans are better prepared for severe weather than ever before.

The Public Relations Society of Jamaica is the local professional body that serves the interests of PR counsellors, and officers and that encourages continuing education and ethical standards in the field.

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JAMAICANS MORE PREPARED FOR SEVERE WEATHER DISASTERS

ODPEM Director General, Ronald Jackson, said that Jamaicans were more prepared for severe weather now than a decade ago in his address to the PRSJ at his office on November 15. Front Row l-r CARIMAC Lecturer Blossom Laidlaw, National Irrigation Commission PR Director, Patricia Tyrell Chong.