Emergency responses

• Red Cross response after Hurricane Sandy in Jamaica

  - 12/04/2013
  The Red Cross has obtained funding from the European Commission, to implement a reconstruction project, following the passage of Hurricane Sandy, in Jamaica. Hurricane Sandy hit ...
  
  

• Responding to the Emergency in St Lucia

  - 18/04/2011
  After the advent of Hurricane Tomas, which caused major damage in St Lucia (October 31, 2010), the PIRAC immediately sent team members as well as material and equipment already pre ...
  
  

• Training of Emergency Response Units

  - 07/04/2011
  Three questions were asked of Serge Leclerc, President of the French Guiana Red Cross Comments were recorded by the newspaper, France-Guyane, March 16, 2011 The Red Cros ...
  
  

• RIT Training

  - 28/01/2011
  The first training of the Regional Intervention Team (RIT) was held in Guadeloupe, January 31 to February 06, 2011. The Regional Intervention Platform for the Americas and the Car ...
  
  

• Hurricane Tomas

  - 22/01/2011
  During the night of October 30 to 31, 2010, Hurricane Tomas struck the islands of St Lucia, St Vincent and Barbados, seriously affecting the functioning of the three islands with w ...
  
  

• Hurricane Dean

  - 21/01/2011
  During the period of August 16-21, 2007, Hurricane Dean passed through Martinique, St Lucia, Dominica, Haiti and Jamaica. In response to the damages caused, the Regional Interve ...
  
  

• Flooding of the Maroni River

  - 21/01/2011
  Following the flooding of the Maroni River in June 2008, the Regional Intervention Platform for the Americas and the Caribbean (PIRAC) intervened, at the request of the Pref ...
  
  

• Hurricanes Gustav, Hannah and Ike

  - 21/01/2011
  Following the ravages caused by the passage of hurricanes Gustav, Hannah and Ike, in Haiti, at the end of August 2008, the Regional Intervention Platform for the Americas and th ...