Principal Director at the Meteorological Service of Jamaica (Met Service), Evan Thompson, has emphasised the need to expand the island’s public alerting capabilities into a fully integrated, multi-agency framework. He made the call while speaking during the two-day Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Workshop, held recently at the Courtleigh Hotel and Suites in New Kingston. Mr. Thompson reflected on Jamaica’s more than two-decade history with the CAP, a standardised digital format designed to simultaneously transmit emergency alerts across multiple communication channels. “The Common Alerting Protocol is...