Summary of current activity, summary of meeting with FCO, DFID, MOD and Cabinet office,
housing and shelter
healthcare and evacuees, special needs cases
fees for HE, building society problem,
Montserrat Civil service airstrip
sustainable development…
Recce visit to Montserrat, briefings on situation, increasing activity, pyroclastic flows 8th December.
Infrastructure in North, reduced numbers in shelters.
Sirens recovered from exclusion zone, dinner on 8th December with Montserratians and lunch…
SITREP 4th February:Increase in volcanic activity, movement of evacuees, central zone relocations, PDCs, ash fall, dome growth.
Monitoring equipment replaced, meeting with residents of Salem camps and shelters, relocation negotiations.
SITREP 5th February:shelters in central zone priority, housing issues,
Salem decisions about housing allocation and shelter populations, conditions,
businesses moving assistance,
DFID staff accommodations, location of staff, central zone
Report on visit by UK Foreign Secretary:no hidden agenda to depopulate the island,
economic recovery plans, visit toSalem shelter,
emergency housing and schools.
Tourism and recovery. Airstrip, aid funds.
Acknowledged poor conditions in shelters.