But, one needs that hasn't been taken care of is the weather radar at the MET Office. It's been down for months, and government seems to have no interest in fixing this vital storm tracking tool.
We asked the NEMO Minister about it today:
Jules Vasquez
"Sir we faced this storm without a working radar. You just waxed poetic about how the government takes care of its people. Sir, we need a working radar in this country."
Hon. Edmond Castro - Minister of NEMO
"That is so true, the radar is not working, it needs some repairs. We just asked cabinet and just about two weeks ago and cabinet has approved some money to deal with the radar situation."
Jules Vasquez
"But you are doing it deep into the hurricane season, it never just stop work last week, it stopped working before the hurricane season and you all didn't do anything and now we are in the peak of our hurricane season and now you are playing catch up and you the try beg."
Hon. Edmond Castro
"Better late than never. We will get up and going, hurricane no done yet and hurricane won't stop coming because we no fix the radar, hurricanes will continue to threaten us every year."
Jules Vasquez
"Yes I know sir but I'm saying, you're avoiding the issue, I'm saying that.."
Hon. Edmond Castro
"We'll get the radar up and going, it will up and going shortly."
Jules Vasquez
"Would you accept sir, that shortly is too late because we are deep into the season, you should have fixed it from before the season. It was not working from then."
Hon. Edmond Castro
"I admit it is still not working but yet, we were able to track the storm, so the met department was so technical, in tracking the hurricane and guide us through and pinpoint exactly where the hurricane will be making landfall and what time. So, the expertise that we have in country, man phenomenal."
On the MET Office's web page, the portal for live storm tracking is inactive and below it, a captions reads: "Please be advised that our radar is currently under maintenance; therefore, our radar images are currently unavailable."
