Barbados Lends Financial Support To Dominica

By Kendol Morgan Last updated Sep 11, 2015

Barbados_PM_SG — Barbados Prime Minister and CARICOM Chairman Rt. Hon Freundel Stuart addressing the media in the Grace Adams Suit of the Grantley Adams International Airport on Wednesday. He is joined by CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque. (C.Pitt/BGIS)

The Government of Barbados has pledged US $100,000 to bolster the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency’s relief efforts in Dominica.

Moreover, says Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, that financial aid “will not be the extent” of the support Barbados will give.

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Mr. Stuart, who is also Chairman of CARICOM, gave this assurance during a press conference on Wednesday evening, following his return to Barbados from a tour to assess the full extent of the damage caused by Tropical Storm Erika in Dominica.

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