Turks and Caicos Islands

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Turks and Caicos Islands

• Impact of Development on Hazards and
  Vulnerabilities
• Dr Rufus W Ewing MBBS, FRCS DM

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Geographic Location
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Demography Socio-Economic Status

• Population 20,000 (2002 census)
• 43 Nationalities
• Unskilled Labour Force Haiti Dominican
  Republic
• Main Industries Tourism Offshore Finance
  (about 70 of Revenue)

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Development Historical Prospective

• Pre-1980
• Salt Industry
• Sisal Industry
• Fishing
• Post-1980
• Tourism based industries/Development activities

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Hazards

• Hurricane
• 1945
• Donna (1960)
• Kate
• Flood
• ?Earthquake
• Experiences

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Salt Industry

• Compartmentalization of Natural drainage system
• Poor maintenance of salt pan, drainage pathways
  and flood gates
• Increased vulnerability to flood

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Salt Pans
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Tourism Development Activities

• Increase in work force and resultant Rapid
  population growth
• Legal illegal immigration
• Port Activities
• Airline arrivals
• Pre-1980 2 per week
• Present gt60 per week
• Construction boom
• Cruise Ships
• 2 arrivals per week to increase to 3/week
• Expected arrivals of 500,000/yr by 2010

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Vulnerabilities

• Rapid growth in population with
• Deficient/lack of effective surveillance systems
• Substandard Housing and living conditions
• Hurricane resistant sound houses
• Lack of proper Liquid and solid waste disposal
• Inadequate water supplies
• Increase in communicable diseases

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Vulnerabilities

• Depletion of fresh water table
• Desalination Plants to replace Water Catchment
  Cisterns
• Impact of Marina development on water table-and
  drainage pattern
• Reclaim of swamp land for development purposes
  and its effects on flooding

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Providenciales International Airport
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Airport Vulnerability to Hazards

• Airline crash
• Airport crash simulation exercises
• Terrorism
• Flooding
• Airport Disaster Plan
• Mass Casualty Plan

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Cruise Ship Industry

• Legislations Regulations
• Port Health and Quarantine procedures
• Vendors Food handlers regulation
• Communicable diseases
• Sewage Management
• Coral Reef Degradation

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Capacity Building

• Functional Capacity of Health Facilities in
  disasters-50 persons
• Physicians -14
• Paramedics-0
• EMT-0
• First responders and Red Cross
• Fire Service

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Natural Hazards
Mitigation
Capacity Building
Level of Preparedness
Disaster
Development
Inter-agency Collaboration Response
International Collaboration
Evaluation
Man-made Hazards