Region must collaborate on disaster issue

The President of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr. W. Warren Smith, is urging regional leaders and development partners to work collaboratively and proactively to address the Region's vulnerabilities, and to support resilience-building in the energy, agriculture and air transport sectors.

"Our Region has had to cope with countless natural disasters and other shocks throughout its history. And we have demonstrated repeatedly our ability to 'bounce back' from such disastrous events," he said at the Bank's Annual Meeting of its Board of Governors.