{"id":84525,"date":"2017-09-18T16:55:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T16:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=1e2ff9cc6ecdb7a777fb63d9e5980c54"},"modified":"2017-09-18T16:55:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T16:55:14","slug":"news-story-cobr-meeting-18-september-2017-sir-alan-duncans-statement-on-hurricanes-irma-and-maria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=84525","title":{"rendered":"News story: COBR meeting, 18 September 2017: Sir Alan Duncan&#8217;s statement on Hurricanes Irma and Maria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Minister for the Americas Sir Alan Duncan said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m back in the Crisis Centre because once again we\u2019ve had another meeting of <abbr title=\"Cabinet Office Briefing Room\">COBR<\/abbr>, which is our emergency committee, because we\u2019re looking at an unprecedented sequence of events where having had so many hurricanes there\u2019s now a serious danger that we\u2019re going to get yet another.<\/p>\n<p>So we are tracking Hurricane Maria and as you can see behind me we\u2019ve got all the details to see where it\u2019s going, and we have to prepare for the worst but hope for the best. But one of the consequences of having these earlier hurricanes is we\u2019ve got a lot of people and equipment in place.<\/p>\n<p>So what we are very vigorously doing now is trying to anticipate where the damage might lie, and pre-positioning supplies and all of the equipment that can lead to the maximum resilience for these poor people who\u2019ve been hit once and might be hit again.<\/p>\n<p>So we are focusing of course on our Overseas Territories, which on this occasion might include Montserrat, which was lightly affected last time, but we are working around the clock to do our very best. And I\u2019d urge everybody to follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/foreign-travel-advice\">travel advice<\/a> which we are regularly updating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Be assured that we are doing our utmost to anticipate where help is needed and to make sure that if this hurricane hits people, and hits them again, we will be there to deliver the need that people will want.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/aSQJtipgUDk\">Sir Alan Duncan\u2019s statement<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/hurricane-irma-advice-for-british-nationals\">latest updates on Hurricane Maria and Hurricane Irma<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for the Americas spoke following the COBR meeting on how the UK government is preparing in advance of Hurricane Maria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}