A number of persons in Anguilla, drawn mainly from various departments of the Public Service, and to some extent from the Anguilla Red Cross, have benefited from a series of courses organised by the National Disaster Management Committee.

Course participants at Teacher’s resource Centre

The courses, from February 26 to March 6, at the Teachers’ Resource Centre, comprised the following: a one-day 8-hour course on what is called ‘The Critical Incident Stress Debrief ’(as a result of which a team will be formed to assist in the case of a traumatic event affecting persons within their working environment); another one-day 8-hour course in Crisis Communications (designed to

Course participants at Teacher’s resource Centre

prepare senior personnel for any challenges that may occur within their departments); and the last course was a five-day 40-hour Public Information Officer course (to expose participants to interview techniques, writing news releases, communicating with the media and conducting public awareness campaigns).

Mr. Phillip Queen and Ms. Elizabeth Klute

All three courses, facilitated by the Department of Disaster Preparedness have been funded by a grant from the Department for International Development.
The courses were part of continuing preparedness activities being made on the island by the Director of Disaster Preparedness, Elizabeth Klute, and her staff with the assistance of visiting facilitators, one of whom has been Phillip Queen from Fire Management Consulting in California. He was involved in this series of courses which were well attended.

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