ʻO Jamaica's Kuhina Hoʻokipa, Hon ʻO Edmund Bartlett, wahi a ka United Nations (UN) ma luna o ka moku e hoʻomaikaʻi i ka hana i hoʻohui ʻia a kaʻana like i ka ʻike a me nā kumuwaiwai me ka Global Resilience and Crisis Management Center (GTRCM, e pili ana i ka hoʻoweliweli o ka sargassum i ka ʻāina.
"Ke hahai nei kēia ʻaelike i nā kūkākūkā maikaʻi me ka UN a me ka GTRCM i kēia manawa. Hoʻomaopopo nā hui ʻelua i nā hopena o kēia sargassum a ʻoi aku ka nui o nā hopohopo o ka UN a me ka GTRCM e pili ana i nā hopena i ka mākaʻikaʻi ma ka ʻāina, a me nā hopena i ka lawaiʻa, ke olakino kanaka, a me ke kaiapuni.
ʻO Jamaica ke alakaʻi i kēia mea no ka hoʻoweliweli o kēia hanana i kā mākou hana waiwai nui i ka ʻāina - mākaʻikaʻi, "wahi a Kuhina Bartlett.
ʻO Kuhina Bartlett, ka mea lawelawe ma ke ʻano he Co-Chair o ka GTRCM i mea kōkua i ka lawe ʻana i ka United Nations i ka papaʻaina, i kona hui ʻana me ka UN Office of Partnership ma New York i hala iho nei.
Ua pani ʻia ka UN e ke poʻo o ka Caribbean Sub-Regional Office o ka United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) a me ka Sub-Regional Coordinator no ka Caribbean of the Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO).
ʻO nā hālāwai, i komo pū me Professor Lloyd Waller o ke Kulanui o West Indies (UWI); Ua kūkākūkā ʻo Renata Clarke (FAO), Vincent Sweeney (UNEP) a me Ileana Lopez (UNEP) i ka hana kūpono e hana ʻia ana ma ka UWI a ma ʻō o ka UN, a ua noʻonoʻo ʻia i nā koho e like me ka poholo ʻana o ka sargassum e pale ai i ka pae ʻana i uka.
ʻO Kuhina Bartlett, ma o ka GTRCM, i alakaʻi ʻia i kahi hālāwai kūkā kamaʻāina āpana me nā ʻenekini mīkini mai ka Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Precision Engineering Research Group; a kaulana nā kānaka noiʻi mai ka UWI a me ka GTRCM. ʻO ka pahuhopu o ka hālāwai kūkā e kaʻana like i ka ʻike a me nā hana maikaʻi e pili ana i ka sargassum, kikoʻī ke ʻano i hoʻomaka ʻia mai kahakai o Brazil.
"Aia nō mākou i ka wā ʻimi e hōʻuluʻulu i nā manaʻo maikaʻi loa e hana like i ka hana ʻoi loa e hoʻoliʻiliʻi i ka hoʻoweliweli o kēia hanana a e hoʻomau i kēia mau kūkākūkā ʻana e hoʻoholo i ke ala i mua," hoʻopau ʻo Kuhina Bartlett.
