The Directorate of Civil Protection (DPC) and the Hydro Meteorological Unit of Haiti (UHM) announced that despite the official end of the hurricane season particularly lenient for Haiti, the mobilization was maintained.

Dr. Jerry Chandler, Director of the DPC explained, "We are maintaining the mobilization because the country remains very vulnerable to other phenomena, because hydro-meteorological hazards are not just hurricanes and because we also have to continue to strengthen our structures" and the population must remain vigilant and follow the weather reports

For his part Jean-Marie Reynaldo Brunet, the Minister of the Interior and Territorial Communities said "The hurricane season 2018, which ended, spared the country, unlike last year and especially the 2016 season marked by the devastating hurricane Matthew.

Marcelin Esterlin, Coordinator of the UHM recalled that the region recorded during this season, 16 tropical depressions and 15 named cyclonic phenomena, that is to say 7 tropical storms and 8 hurricanes, of which 2 major having reached category 4 which severely affected the United States.

HL/ HaitiLibre