Cayman Islands Premier
McKeeva Bush made appeals to the public to donate items for victims of
Hurricane/Tropical Storm Tomas in St.
Lucia and Haiti.
Mr. Bush’s request was
made in the Legislative Assembly Monday morning.
The government has joined
with the Cayman Islands chapter of the Red
Cross to collect a list of emergency items for the victims:
Those items include: cases of water; water purification tablets; dry, preserved and
canned food; evaporated milk; bedding; lanterns and flashlights with batteries;
small transistor radios; and adult and infant disposable diapers and
wipes.
Also
needed are cleaning supplies; hand sanitising products; female sanitary
products; baby food and formula; and water containers and flasks.
Items can be dropped off
at the Red Cross on Huldah
Avenue in George Town and at the Cayman Airways cargo
facility on Airport
Road.
Mr.
Bush said the goal was to collect the items by close of business on Tuesday, 9
November, as a Cayman Airways flight carrying the donations was scheduled to
depart from here on Wednesday.
The prime minister of
St. Lucia has estimated
Hurricane Tomas created $500 million worth of damage when it struck the small
Caribbean island last month. Fourteen people
were killed in the storm in St. Lucia, and several others remain
missing.
At
least 20 people died when Hurricane Tomas brushed past Haiti this past weekend, more than double the
number initially reported, Haiti’s civil protection department
said Monday.
Seven others remain missing and dozens were injured. More than 30,000
people remain in shelters and Tomas left nearly 6,000 families homeless. Others,
already homeless from the Jan. 12 earthquake, lost their
tents.
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