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The Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go has mo­bilised a co­or­di­nat­ed na­tion­al re­lief ef­fort to sup­port Ja­maica fol­low­ing the dev­as­ta­tion caused by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.

Act­ing on the di­rec­tive of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, an In­ter-Min­is­te­r­i­al Com­mit­tee has been es­tab­lished to over­see the re­lief and re­cov­ery re­sponse. The Com­mit­tee is co­or­di­nat­ed by the Min­istry of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs, led by Min­is­ter Sean Sobers, and in­cludes rep­re­sen­ta­tives from key min­istries such as Fi­nance, Health, De­fence, So­cial De­vel­op­ment, Pub­lic Util­i­ties, and Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment.

The Min­istry of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs said the co­or­di­nat­ed re­sponse un­der­scores Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to re­gion­al sol­i­dar­i­ty and its readi­ness to pro­vide time­ly and ef­fec­tive sup­port. The Min­istry al­so con­firmed that all Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als in Ja­maica, in­clud­ing stu­dents, are safe fol­low­ing checks by the High Com­mis­sion in Kingston.