A Coast Guard ves­sel of re­lief sup­plies has been sent St Vin­cent on be­half of the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go. This fol­lows a re­quest from St Vin­cent Prime Min­is­ter Ralph Gon­za­lves who sent a list of ur­gent­ly need­ed sup­plies last Thurs­day. He did so af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar in­di­cat­ed this coun­try's will­ing­ness to as­sist the hur­ri­cane dev­as­tat­ed is­land.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Gon­za­lves have been in reg­u­lar com­mu­ni­ca­tion since Hur­ri­cane Tomas hit the is­land of St Vin­cent. The T&T Prime Min­is­ter has thanked the lo­cal pri­vate sec­tor for their tremen­dous as­sis­tance in part­ner­ing with the Gov­ern­ment in the time­ly de­liv­ery of aid to is­lands af­fect­ed by Trop­i­cal Storm Tomas.