Under funding by USAID, Habitat Jamaica and Abacus have signed an MOU and already trained three communities in local area Emergency Communications. St Catherine communities at Naggos Head, Gregory Park and Newlands have already been trained and now being equipped with radios. These communities will form part of a national corps of volunteers for Emergency Communications under the EARS programme, that is linked to essential local emergency response agencies through their various Parish Councils. See latest Abacus Newsletter .
December 2015