I want to welcome all new visitors to the Barbados Fire Service's website and welcome back those who were frequent visitors in the past, but left us while we reconstructed the site and improved its features.

As we are all learning to appreciate, the internet and the world wide web have become the fastest growing medium for information gathering and sharing.

The advent of the internet has opened up a world of possibilities for organizations of all types and sizes to impact the global environment in more innovative ways.

This unique forum allows for real-time access to critical information, suppliers and clients and enhances the whole decision making process at the organizational level. In addition there is the scope for marketing goods and services not only to local customers but to an international audience as well.

The Barbados Fire Service embraces these concepts and has joined with the global community in making information readily accessible to the general public through our new website. This website is much easier to navigate through. The site map allows for admission to the different pages which download very quickly.

We hope that the new features will attract many new visitors to the site so that they can learn more about this department, its functions and the services we provide. Visitors can also take advantage of the wide range of fire safety information provided on this site and use the links pages to explore several of the other agencies with whom we have an association.

I take this opportunity to encourage all who visit the site to make good use of the valuable information and feel free to contact us with your ideas and views on how we can improve the site to further meet the needs of an increasingly diverse community.

Do enjoy your visit.

Anthony Blackman
Chief Fire Officer