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 Trina and Tobago Convention, Miss Melora Abeco.
00:20So she will be on that team heading up to give support.
00:23The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency, Tema, 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 Abeco 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,
01:09especially 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 Abeco, Chief Secretary Fali Augustin 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 persons to come and deliver their items, the 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,
02:24you can come to the Timur Fairfield Complex, located at Fairfield Complex, and do those deliveries.
02:31Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
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