Trinidad and Tobago is continuing its support for Jamaica's hurricane recovery, with donations and assistance also coming from Jamaicans living right here.
00:00Hurricane relief for Jamaica from Trinidad and Tobago is taking the form of state and private sector assistance.
00:07Those efforts also include those being carried out by Jamaicans who are in Trinidad and Tobago.
00:13TV6 News spoke with one of them on Sunday.
00:16My name is Glenorah McIntosh and I'm the Jamaica Global Diaspora Council representative for the Caribbean.
00:21Do you have anyone you know, be it family or friends, in Jamaica right now who have been directly impacted by the hurricane?
00:30Yes, so to date I have been inundated with a lot of calls all week in terms of the person asking me to facilitate conversations with different persons in Jamaica and regional.
00:43Personally, I'm yet to get in contact with my brother and his wife and three kids, but still hopeful, still hopeful.
00:50Mr. McIntosh spoke about the images out of Jamaica as well as the help being provided by the government and people of Trinidad and Tobago.
01:00Being here in Trinidad, being at Jamaica, my heart literally goes out.
01:04When seeing family members, when seeing friends, and it was that compelled me to try to establish a cause for and a need to assist because it connected home, literal home.
01:19And more so, I was even more moved when I saw that the Prime Minister and members of the business community then reached out in extending that right hand of fellowship to the Jamaican community as well.
01:31Another example of that hand of fellowship can be found in those who are collaborating with the Jamaica Diaspora Global Council.
01:40Whether it be clothes, whether it be water or supplies, and that remains ongoing and can be contacted through myself or the Royal Philanthropic Lodge, RPL,
01:52or through any of the agencies which there can be the municipals. So, reach out.
02:01An apparent reference to the job centers set up at the 14 municipal corporations in Trinidad.
02:07As for the items that would be most important for Jamaica at this time?
02:11So, we would start with the water, that's essential for our life. Then you move to the supplies, and we have also included sanitary pads, because I empathize with women who are not just displaced,
02:27but then having to deal with the discomfort and not having money or access to that resource.
02:35And as such, having that now gives them or empowers them during their displacement.
02:42Mr. McIntosh said the first shipment of donations collected by the Jamaica Diaspora Global Council and the RPL is set to reach Jamaica by the end of this week.
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