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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Sophie Wingate

UK providing £2.5m in humanitarian support to Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa

People walk through Santa Cruz, Jamaica (Matias Delacroix/AP) - (AP)

The UK is supporting Jamaica with £2.5 million in emergency humanitarian funding after Hurricane Melissa, as Sir Keir Starmer described scenes from the country as “truly shocking”.

The Prime Minister told MPs on Wednesday that naval vessel HMS Trent and “specialist rapid deployment teams” had been “pre-positioned in the region” to provide support.

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