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Jamaica's Prime Minister says a system is being put in place to ensure all the donations it has been receiving its properly accounted for, as it continues with its recovery from the passage of Hurricane Melissa.

And Prime Minister Andrew Holness said that the recovery efforts include the removal of almost 500,000 standard truckloads of debris.

Juhel Browne reports.


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00:00so eventually i'm going to say eventually very soon as soon as the system is up and running
00:06then we will be able to publish for the public to see what came in as donations
00:14and what went out as in terms of their usage and who were the beneficiaries jamaica's prime minister
00:22andrew holness is speaking during a news conference about his country's relief and recovery efforts
00:27some two and a half weeks after the passage of hurricane melissa which had hit the island as a
00:32category five storm trinidad and tobago is among the caracom member states which have joined the
00:38international community in donating relief supplies to jamaica in its time of need so the public will
00:45be able to see in real time what is the status of donations that gives confidence to the public
00:53it gives confidence to our donors as well in these matters there should be nothing secret
01:01unless a donor country says we don't want anyone to know what we have given you which is highly
01:06unlikely and has not happened but um we want everybody to know prime minister allness gave an
01:13update on the scale of the damage jamaica suffered from hurricane melissa we have about 4.8 million metric
01:20tons of debris 4.8 million metric tons of debris i i would say just round that up to 5 million metric
01:31tons of debris let me put that into context that is about 480 000 standard truckloads to move
01:45i want that to to sink in prime minister said he has put together a special team to be led by two
01:56ministers of his cabinet to lead what he identified as a targeted debris removal effort so i want to give
02:04hope to the people of jamaica that though this figure of almost 500 000 truckloads is daunting and far
02:13greater than we have ever faced because the challenge is not just to move the debris where do you store
02:19it and how do you store it safely and so we are examining all the options including recycling
02:26uh using the wood chippers to reduce the the wood uh including um having a structured approach to the
02:34recovery of scrap metals the government of jamaica said thus far jamaica suffered u.s 8.8 billion dollars
02:43in damage from hurricane melissa but the damage assessment is still ongoing jewel brown tv6 news
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