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The Government has launched a nationwide humanitarian relief effort for earthquake-ravaged Venezuela, mobilising state agencies, the private sector and municipal corporations in what it describes as a coordinated national response to the unfolding humanitarian crisis.
In a media release issued today, the Ministry of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs said it launched the initiative on the instructions of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar following a high-level stakeholder meeting convened jointly with the Ministry of Rural Development and Local Government.
The meeting brought together Minister of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs Sean Sobers, Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Khadijah Ameen, senior representatives from the Ministries of Defence, Health and Homeland Security, through the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management, ODPM, as well as executives from the Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce, the Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers’ Association, the American Chamber of Industry and Commerce, the Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago and Sewa International TT.
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