About TEMA

small tema The National Emergency Management Agency (Tobago) was established in accordance with The Tobago House of Assembly Executive Council Minute No. 64 of March 09, 1998. Through NEMA and by extension, the (National Disaster Management System) this island would benefit from a comprehensive disaster management approach focused on prevention, preparation and mitigation against disasters, as well as emergency response, rehabilitation and recovery from such events.

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TEMA Facilities

TEOC

The Tobago Emergency Operations Center (TEOC) has continued to see improvement in its infrastructure; to date, the facility is supported by the following:

ACCU weather stations

This provides the EOC with localized weather information including barometer pressure; wind speeds and directions; temperatures and software data recording.

TEMA Warehouse

Located at Tobago Cold Storage and Warehouse Facility (TCOSWAF) Compound, Shaw Park, Tobago.

The NEMA Tobago Warehouse expanded after the 2004 Hurricane Ivan when additional supplies were donated by the Ministry of Local Government, for relief purposes. NEMA Tobago’s warehouse is used for the storage of goods and emergency supplies. Our warehouse is located within close proximity to the NEMA Tobago head office at Bacolet Street, Scarborough, Tobago.

Resources

Emergency Information Management

This is achieved by the application of the EM2000 software. The Tobago office is the only disaster management office in the English speaking Caribbean that utilizes this technology which was proven to be very effective during Hurricane Ivan and for both the severe weather events of November 2004 and January 2005 and Hurricane Emily. In 2006, the Information Management System was upgraded to WebEoc, however the EM/2000 remains actively in service as a backup platform.

These software offer the ability of Incident recording; situation reports; Damage Assessment & Needs Analysis; message tracking & resource management among other things.

Communications

VHF repeaters

The principle of the application of these two repeaters is as such:-

170.300MHz a repeater donated by the Telecommunication Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) is located at French fort.

The 152.180 MHz is located at Flag Staff Hill, Charlotteville and is aided by a link radio which enables both repeaters to speak to each other. This application provides a wider area network coverage from Charlotteville to Crown Point.

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