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Carisa Lee

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has reached out to Ja­maican Prime Min­is­ter An­drew Hol­ness as Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa, a Cat­e­go­ry 5 storm that is fore­cast to be the most pow­er­ful storm in Ja­maica’s his­to­ry, is ex­pect­ed to make land­fall to­day, bring­ing cat­a­stroph­ic winds and flood­ing.

The Prime Min­is­ter said yes­ter­day that she had com­mu­ni­cat­ed with Hol­ness and as­sured him that T&T’s Gov­ern­ment was mo­bil­is­ing to pro­vide im­me­di­ate as­sis­tance to Ja­maica in the af­ter­math of the storm.