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UK provides £2.5 million in emergency humanitarian funding
Western Daily Press
|October 30, 2025
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”.
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The Prime Minister told MPs yesterday that Royal Navy vessel HMS Trent and “specialist rapid deployment teams” had been “pre-positioned in the region” to provide disaster support.
This story is from the October 30, 2025 edition of Western Daily Press.
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