Saturday, June 6, 2026

BE PREPARED: Know your shelters

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IN THE EVENT that you and your family are unable to ride out a storm or hurricane in your home, several hurricane shelters are available across the island.

Shelters may be public or private property and wardens are put in place to supervise those who chose to stay there.

Click here for Emergency Shelter regulations. 

CATEGORY 1 SHELTERS

ST MICHAEL

• Westbury Primary

• St Leonard’s Boys

• St Stephen’s Primary

• Ellerslie Secondary School

• George Lamming Primary School

• Combermere School

• Charles F. Broome Memorial School

• St Matthew’s Primary School

• The University Of The West Indies

Privately owned business shelters

• Black Rock Seventh Day Adventist Church

• Dalkeith Methodist Church

ST LUCY

• Ignatius Byer Primary School

Privately owned business shelters

• Connell Town Pentecostal House of Prayer

ST PETER

• Roland Edwards Primary School

• Coleridge and Parry School

ST JAMES

• Gordon Greenidge Primary

• Queen’s College

ST THOMAS

• Hillaby/Turner’s Hall

• The Lester Vaughn School

ST ANDREW

• A DaCosta Edwards

ST JOSEPH

• St Bernard’s Primary School

ST GEORGE

• Ellerton Primary

• Cuthbert Moore Primary

ST JOHN

• St John Primary School

ST PHILIP

• Hilda Skeene Primary School

• St Philip Primary School

• Reynold Weekes Primary

Privately owned business shelters

• Six Roads Church of Christ

• Six Roads Seventh Day Adventist

CHRIST CHURCH

• Blackman and Gollop Primary School

• Christ Church Girls School

• Christ Church Foundation School

• Arthur Smith Primary School

• St Christopher Primary School

• Gordon Walters Primary

Privately owned business shelters

• Hawthorn Methodist Church

CATEGORY 2 PUBLIC SCHOOLS SHELTERSalexandraptastudents

ST MICHAEL

• Barbados Community College

• St Paul’s Primary

• Deacons Primary

• St Stephen’s Primary

• Graydon Sealy

• Luther Thorne Memorial

• Grantley Prescod Memorial

• Harrison College

• Hindsbury Primary

• St Ambrose Primary

• St Mary’s Primary

• Wesley Hall Junior

• Wilkie Cumberbatch Primary

• The St Michael School

• Wesley Hall Infants’

• Eagle Hall Primary

Privately owned business shelters

• Fairfield Gospel Hall

• St Matthew’s Church

• Chapman Street Church Of God

• Government Hill Seventh Day Adventist

• St Barnabas Day Care Centre

ST LUCY

• Daryll Jordan Secondary

Privately owned business shelters

• Hope Road Church of the Nazarene

• St Lucy Parish Church

ST PETER

• Alexandra School

• All Saints Primary

Privately owned business shelters

• St Philip-the-Less Church

ST JAMES

• St James Primary

• West Terrace Primary

ST THOMAS

• Holy Innocent’s Primary

• Welches Primary

ST JOSEPH

• Grantley Adams Memorial

ST JOHN

• St Margarets Primary

ST GEORGE

• St George Primary

Privately owned business shelters

• St George Parish Church

ST PHILIP

• Bayleys Primary

• Princess Margaret Secondary

• St Catherines Primary

Privately owned business shelters

• Four Square Nazarene Church

• Gemswick Nazarene Church

• Ruby Nazarene Church

• St Catherines Church

CHRIST CHURCH

• Milton Lynch Primary

• St Lawrence Primary

Privately owned business shelters

• Christ Church Parish Church

• Salvation Army Church (Wotton)

• St Christopher Church

• St Matthias Church

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