The Hurricane Season began on June first, and many homeowners have started taking precautions against any potential hurricanes. Homes aren't the only places that need protection, so do businesses. But how do they protect themselves? And is there really hope for their business after a hurricane? Well, today they found out the answers to all those questions at a Disaster Risk Management conference.
Shajira McCoy, Manager of Export Belize
"BELTRAIDE under a project with the OAS is having a workshop that talk about business continuity planning so what that is how does the business continue after disaster and particularly we have been talking so far about Natural Disasters as everyone would know in this region and in even in Belize we have started the hurricane season for example and they are looking at what does a business do they face a disaster and continue and not to shut down."
Dr. Elvis Nurse, EKACDM Project Manager
"This is extremely important as we know small businesses make up a large part of employment as well as income generation for most countries this project is focusing on all Caribbean countries. We have had four, this is the fifth of five workshops we have had. We had workshops in Dominica, Antigua & Barbuda, St. Lucia, Jamaica, and now in Belize and it is in important especially given what happened in Dominica and Antigua where all the small businesses were wiped out."
"It is emergency planning. It is risk planning actually but it is not in the event for disaster alone. It is a flood, it is a fire. Anything that will disrupt the business operations and has the capacity to disable that operation and then how do they react to that, how long after the event will they be able to get back up and running because they will lose sales and then the persons who are working there will not get sales and the persons who are working there will not get income and that is very critical."
Beltraide in collaboration with the Organization of American States, UWI, and the Global Affair Canada sponsored the workshop. It will conclude tomorrow.
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