{"id":349989,"date":"2025-10-07T15:40:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=349989"},"modified":"2025-10-07T16:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T20:04:10","slug":"dominica-met-services-has-best-infrastructure-in-oecs-says-blackmoore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/homepage-carousel\/dominica-met-services-has-best-infrastructure-in-oecs-says-blackmoore\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominica Met Services has best infrastructure in OECS, says Blackmoore"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_349991\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-349991\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-349991\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Rayburn-Blackmoore-speaking-during-walk-through-ceremony-at-Jimmit-642x361.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-349991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rayburn Blackmoore speaking during walk through ceremony at Jimmit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eight years following the devastation of Hurricane Maria, Minister for National Security Rayburn Blackmoore has identified Dominica as having the best Meteorological Services infrastructure in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His comments came following a walk-through at the Office of Disaster Management Building in Jimmit on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, this walk-through was organized to show appreciation and the progress made over the years at the Met office as it relates to the forecast, as well as other areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us not underestimate the progress we have made,\u201d he said. \u201cYes, we must criticize policies, we must give each other licks when they deserve their licks, but we must elevate each other, and we must give praise and thanks that eight years after Hurricane Maria, we have the best Met Services infrastructure in the OECS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Blackmoore, eight years ago, Dominica did not have a Met head office. Construction on the current stand-alone building began in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn most of the other countries, they don&#8217;t have a headquarters of that magnitude,\u201d boasted Blackmoore. \u201cThey operate from offices, operate from airports.\u00a0\u00a0Now, if we are going to become the first climate-resilient country, \u00a0it means that we must have what it takes. We must have the prerequisite to assist us in getting there.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_349990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-349990\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-349990\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dominica-Meteorological-Service-Building-in-Jimmit-1-642x361.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dominica-Meteorological-Service-Building-in-Jimmit-1-642x361.jpg 642w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dominica-Meteorological-Service-Building-in-Jimmit-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dominica-Meteorological-Service-Building-in-Jimmit-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dominica-Meteorological-Service-Building-in-Jimmit-1-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dominica-Meteorological-Service-Building-in-Jimmit-1.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-349990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominica Meteorological Service Building in Jimmit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He continued, \u201cBuilding the roads, paying attention to mitigation is important. But we must be able to have a Met Services with the relevant resources in terms of personnel and equipment, so that we can better forecast and we can better issue warnings and watches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blackmoore pointed out that\u00a0all these things are important, \u201cbecause we have gotten to a stage in this country where we no longer have to rely on outside interests to issue watches\/\u00a0warnings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He believes that this, in itself, signals a significant advancement in Dominica.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we have trained personnel, they are here for you, trained as forecasters, and then we have the infrastructure,\u201d he stated. &#8220;What we have done over the years is invested tremendously, of course, with the help of our benefactors, in automatic water gauges across the country, automatic water stations\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, he said they now possess the relevant tools and equipment for implementation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And eight years after Hurricane Maria, no one would have thought that Dominica would have been maybe the first country in the OECS to have a building specifically for the housing of the Met Services,&#8221; Blackmoore reiterated. &#8220;Over three million dollars, and we are not talking about the equipment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight years following the devastation of Hurricane Maria, Minister for National Security Rayburn Blackmoore has identified Dominica as having the best Meteorological Services infrastructure in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). 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