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Trinidad Sends Disaster Relief Supplies To St. Vincent

Trinidad Sends Disaster Relief Supplies To St. Vincent

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago (Thursday, April 15,2021) — The Ministry of National Security is coordinating efforts to render support to St. Vincent, in light of the eruption of the La Soufriere Volcano.

Through coordination — between the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM) and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) — the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force (TTDF) assisted with relief supplies to the government and the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

T&Trelief for St Vincent -- story imageThis morning, C26 aircraft, from the Regional Security System (RSS), took on board 75 sleeping cots at the Trinidad and Tobago Air Guard’s Ulric Cross Air Station (UCAS), in Piarco; and another flight is scheduled to return, this afternoon, to collect 225 additional sleeping cots, all of which will be delivered to the volcano-strickenisland.

The government says that the ODPM’s National Emergency Operations Centre remains on high alert, to support the efforts of the CDEMA, and St Vincent’s National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO).

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