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  • 3 weeks ago
In the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, Ms Me-laura Ag-beko, Assistant Director and Operations Chief at the Tobago Emergency Management Agency (TEMA), has been deployed to assist Jamaica's disaster-response efforts.

Her deployment will span one (1) week, after which additional TEMA personnel will be rotated to ensure continued support until operations stabilise and recovery is well underway. This was confirmed by Tema director Allan Stewart. More in this Elizabeth Williams report.
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00:00TEMA has already dispatched one of our professionals to assist with the rapid needs assessment team that is going to Jamaica.
00:13They will be departing part of the Trinidad and Tobago contingent, Miss Melora Abeko.
00:20So she will be on that team heading up to give support.
00:23The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency, CDEMA, has activated its regional response mechanism, RRM,
00:31and deployed a rapid needs assessment team, RNAT, to support the government of Jamaica's national response and recovery operation.
00:41Accordingly, Miss Abeko will serve as part of the RNAT responsible for underground assessment of damage,
00:48identification of priority needs, and coordination with local authorities.
00:54Relief items to be sent to Jamaica from Tobago are being coordinated.
00:58It's that we pay attention to the needs list critically.
01:04It is critically important that we pay attention to the needs, especially where clothing is concerned.
01:11There will be, in no uncertain term, will we be accepting old or used clothing.
01:20So we ask persons to pay attention to that.
01:23In deploy, Miss Abeko, Chief Secretary Fali Agustin emphasized the human dimension of this response.
01:31We stand in solidarity with the people of Jamaica and the wider Caribbean
01:35who are experiencing the devastating consequences of this storm.
01:40Our contribution through the deployment of trained personnel, as well as our ongoing relief drive,
01:47forms part of a coordinated regional effort to assist affected communities and help restore normalcy.
01:54Collection of supplies to Jamaica started on Friday.
01:58We start the drive from this morning and it goes until the 4th, which is next week, Tuesday.
02:04We are hoping that window will allow purses to come and deliver their items, their collection points.
02:13If there are crates, then they can go straight to the warehouse with those crates.
02:18If you have loose items to be delivered, probably boxes or sacks or whatever,
02:25you can come to the Tima Fairfield Complex, located at Fairfield Complex, and do those deliveries.
02:31Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
02:34And we'll be right back.
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