As emer­gency au­thor­i­ties and vol­un­teers in South­east Asia con­tin­ue to deal with the af­ter­math of a 7.7 mag­ni­tude earth­quake which left hun­dreds dead and in­jured, the Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Dr Amery Browne has con­firmed that no Trinida­di­ans were among those se­ri­ous­ly af­fect­ed.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports from the BBC, at least 144 peo­ple were con­firmed dead af­ter the earth­quake in Myan­mar, while six peo­ple were con­firmed dead in Thai­land.

Re­spond­ing to Guardian Me­dia via What­sApp yes­ter­day, Dr Browne said that there were 15 T&T na­tion­als liv­ing in Thai­land who were reg­is­tered with his min­istry, not­ing that there were no re­ports of deaths or in­juries in­volv­ing them.