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More than 260 T&T stu­dents are grap­pling with fear and un­cer­tain­ty as they shel­ter on the UWI Mona cam­pus in Ja­maica as Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa ap­proach­es. Mean­while, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said the Gov­ern­ment has been co­or­di­nat­ing re­lief and repa­tri­a­tion ef­forts.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Vice Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Stu­dent As­so­ci­a­tion at the Mona cam­pus Jaden Paris, who rep­re­sents the 2025–2026 co­hort, said that stu­dents were ad­vised to move to low­er lev­els for safe­ty.

“All of us were ad­vised to come down­stairs. A form was sent out ear­li­er stat­ing the items we may need, and we filled it out and went down­stairs,” he said. “But it was kind of half ful­filled in terms of the num­ber of items they pro­vid­ed. There is a video, there are pic­tures; we’re still gath­er­ing those.”