Kingston, Jamaica, December 1, 2020. On November 26, CCRIF SPC (formerly the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility) presented a cheque for US$250,000 to The University of the West Indies (The UWI) for scholarships and for covering the tuition fees of students who are in need of financial support this academic year.
Renata Philogene-McKie, MSc. in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management, University of Leicester, 2018
Kevin Patrick Douglas, MSc In Disaster Management, The University of the West Indies, 2011
Kellesia Williams, MSc Natural Resource Management, The University of the West Indies, 2018
Gerarda Ramcharansingh, MSc. Natural Resources Management - Disaster Management, The University of the West Indies, 2011.
Cory George, MSc Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Management, University College London, 2018
CCRIF SPC fourth publication of technical papers, which highlights academic papers completed by recipients of CCRIF scholarships who have completed degrees in areas related to disaster risk management at The University of the West Indies and other universities in the United Kingdom.
These scholarships are offered within CCRIF’s larger Technical Assistance Programme, which is aimed at building capacity among key organizations as well as individuals and nongovernmental organizations for improved disaster risk management in the Caribbean region.
Danellia Aitcheson, MSc. in Sustainability (Remote Sensing and GIS), University of Southamption, 2017
Tropical Cyclone Eta was the twenty-ninth and at the time the most powerful tropical cyclone of the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season.
The Bahamas North West was the only area within The Bahamas that was affected by wind speeds greater than 39 mph (62.7 km/h).
Tropical Cyclone Eta was the twenty-ninth and most powerful tropical cyclone of the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Eta developed from a powerful tropical wave moving across the eastern Caribbean Sea, which evolved into a tropical depression on 31 October. On 1 November, it strengthened into a tropical storm while it was over the central Caribbean Sea. On 2 November, Tropical Storm Eta rapidly intensified, becoming a major hurricane, and on 3 November it made landfall in Nicaragua as a category 4 hurricane.