The Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go has mo­bilised a co­or­di­nat­ed na­tion­al re­lief ef­fort to sup­port Ja­maica fol­low­ing the dev­as­ta­tion caused by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to two mur­ders in Waller­field and Val­sayn be­tween last night and ear­ly to­day.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) will in­ject an ad­di­tion­al $300 mil­lion in­to de­vel­op­ment projects next year, rais­ing its de­vel­op­ment bud­get to $501 mil­lion while keep­ing all oth­er spend­ing at 2025 lev­els.

As Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa moves in­to the At­lantic and be­gins to weak­en, res­i­dents of Ja­maica are strug­gling to com­pre­hend the ex­tent of the death and de­struc­tion she has caused.