Gov’t to test new emergency alarm
(CNS): Government will be testing out its new National Emergency Notification System (NENS) for the first time on Friday, when it will begin one of three test broadcasts that will interrupt all radio stations. Officials from Hazard Management Cayman Islands and the Department of Public Safety and Communication said the test message will begin with the attention signal tone of three beeps.
Beginning on Friday with just the signal, a test message will be broadcast on Tuesday, 3 September, at 11:30am and then again on Friday, 6 September, again at 11:30am. The following message will be played advising the public that it is a test.
Beep. Beep. Beep.
“This is the Cayman Islands Government with a coordinated test of the National Emergency Notification System. Broadcasters are testing equipment used to warn you during an emergency. This concludes the test.“
Beep. Beep. Beep.
NENS was created to facilitate public safety messages to as wide an audience as possible in the Cayman Islands in an efficient and timely manner. Given Cayman is vulnerable to natural hazards such as hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis and floods, as well as threats from incidents such as transportation accidents, chemical spills and fires, the system is being implemented so public safety can be improved with prompt information to residents about threats and recommended response actions.
See FAQ document for NENS in the CNS Library
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Brilliant, typical CIG retrograde solution. They’ll most likely implement a cellular emergency notification system when all islanders finally get access to a solid reliable 3G signal maybe by 2025 if they’re lucky.
Does anyone listen to the radio these days? Last time I turned it on, it was some annoying scouser and Canadian talking bollocks!
what about deaf folks?
I hear ya brudda
Yes, do tell us HCMI. We’re all ears.
What about those of us actually working without the radio on?
Hear hear!
they got eyes don’t they???…..and real human being friends???
what about the pinball wizard?
Attention, attention
All citizens are ordered to report to their District detention centers
Do not return to your homes
Do not contact anyone
Do not use any cellular or GPS devices
Surrender all weapons at once
Attention, this way to the camps
What a great idea for the hundreds of people that still listen to radio!
hundreds???
Charles could of had this implemented in hours (via phone)…..how much did this cost?
What about Cayman 27? Will it air on there as well?
For the lifetime of the station. One more day.
In the words of the late great Bob Marley…”you can please some people sometimes, but you can’t please all the people all the time…
Um. Abraham Lincoln, John Lydgate, etc?
Also Robert Zimmermann (Bob Dylan)
Yea but am when you trying tell everyone hold on or die I’d hope you please everyone with how you communicate said message in an emergency.
In the words of the great Robert Nesta Marley, “oww, my bloodclaut toe!”
Still waiting on my text message from last time.
But will it go out over the thousands of Japanese car radio’s?
Well that certainly puts a whole different slant on it.
Jackass
Great movie
1) I use Deezer for 5 bucks a month.. Many people don’t listen to radio infested with ads.
2) I’m sick of mass text message ads for 1 gb of data for $50 from my ISP, can you replace them with actual emergency messages? Thanks.
More people use cell phones than listen to the radio…who came up with this idea?
I am just guessing, but I imagine the thought process went like this: Younger generations are connected via social media and various devices; the older generations listen to local radio, and might not otherwise know there was an emergency situation without radio notification.
Of course, I am generalising. The older generations are also those who are often compromised, disabled or just plain slower, and require more of a heads up.
I’m 60 and gave up on radio years ago. Nothing but annoying ads.
It na too bad I mean 25% of contact lil betta than 0.7% lol