Isaac calls for inter-ministerial collaboration to ensure safer environment

Joseph Isaac

Minister for the Environment, Climate Resilience, Disaster Management and Urban Renewal, Joseph Isaac, has said that the task of making Dominica a climate resilient country is not the responsibility of one Ministry only. He said various ministries have important roles to play in climate resilience and it is important that all work together to ensure a safer environment for Dominican people.

Isaac spoke at a conference organized by his ministry for the institutionalising and advancing of multi-hazard Early Warning Systems (EWS) in the Caribbean region.

He said if ministries work with the same objective work will be done more effectively.

“We are a cross-cutting ministry and not necessarily a ministry responsible to do everything in those areas. Yes, we are the ministry of climate resilience but CREAD is not within that ministry and yes, we have to focus on climate resilience but if you are the ministry of tourism, you supposed to ensure and encourage that all tourism plants and projects should include the components of resilience. Also, if you are in the ministry of agriculture you have to ensure that this is included in your strategy,” he stated

The Minister said a similar approach should obtain in the the Small Business Department and Ministry of Enterprise Development.

“Having faced Hurricane Maria, you have to ensure that any small business that is calling for support as far as possible, you should ensure that they have systems in place that they can bounce back quickly or withstand a storm,” he stated.

Isaac says disaster management legislation will be presented to the Cabinet of Dominica within the following weeks.

“We have identified and accepted some major gaps like the absence of the enactment and enforcement of legislation but have articulated in many policy views in our work through National Emergency Planning Organisation (NEPO). We have a lot of processes that we use that have over the years have allowed NEPO to be effective, but we are almost ready to present disaster management legislation to the cabinet of Dominica within the next weeks.”

Isaac thanked everyone who has been involved in this programme for their support and on-going effort.

“European Commission Humanitarian Aid Disaster Preparedness Programme, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), CDEMA, Cuban environmental agency. The ODM, Met Office, Physical Planning Division, local government, telecom, various ministries such as Health and Education who have been merging their expertise and working together in a seamless way to ensure that we strengthen our effort in creating an integrated Early Warning System and that will create a more effective disaster risk reduction in Dominica,” the minster stated.

He added, “We look forward to the establishment of strong leader ship and structure in all the sectors to support the effective of implementation of EWS. We are committed to fortifying the legislation and the policy frame work with key operating procedures.”

Isaac encourages all organisations to continue working together with a common goal and vision.

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6 Comments

  1. Self
    January 13, 2019

    Irrelevant minister looking for attention. You allowed the prime minister to fool you,

  2. Roman
    January 13, 2019

    Have you got no shame at all? You have committed a serious offence against your country and you still have the audacity to talk about making things better. Go away man and hide under that rock again you used to stay. No bigger shame than being a traitor!

  3. ibo France
    January 11, 2019

    Lots of foam and no ginger beer. Nothing in Dominica will work efficiently and effectively until there is a complete overhaul of the public service. When the Executive Arm of government is dysfunctional everything else will mal-function. The proverbial fish rots at its head. Mr. Isaac, your actions are much too loud, I just can’t hear you when you talk. You are a hypocrite and a traitor. The people voted for a UWP candidate. They wanted nothing to do with DLP. Return the people’s votes by resigning and let them start anew.

    • John Jay
      January 11, 2019

      He is shameless

  4. January 11, 2019

    “Pictures tell a thousand words” not impressed at all Judas Iscariot if i’m to be swayed by your utterances about the CABAL before you joined that merry gang then i realize that “you are caught between a rock and a hard place; so “sing JL sing, sing JL sing, you can sing till the moon get high” we all know you just singing for your supper.

  5. viewsexpressed
    January 11, 2019

    This Issac is a big joke you know in the middle of Skerrit and his corrupt labour government. This is what Issac said. “Isaac encourages all organisations to continue working together with a common goal and vision.” Issac, please go clean up your Labour corrupt government backyard where Skerrit is head, of this failed government, now you are in their company as our nature Isle is reduced everyday in deeper poverty and lack of development, because Skerrit and some of your bunch are illiterate to socio-economic development and easiest thing that your weird Skerrit can do is again be deceptive to the poor people of Dominica, have them que up at the Financial Centre for handouts. That behaviour you told us sometime ago when you were seated at the decent other side of the UWP. You now have a failed leader who is politically illiterate and oblivious to what development is. Your name has been stained now that you are in company of this man who failed and killed our economy. Questions

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