JAMAICA will today send a boat of relief supplies and emergency workers to assist relief efforts in Haiti following the magnitude-7.0 earthquake that struck our neighbouring island yesterday.

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) is coordinating efforts and will this afternoon announce a relief fund and a drop off point for supplies, so that Jamaicans can make donations, said its director-general Ronald Jackson.

"We are pulling together a number of resources: technical, medical and military personnel to support the rescue, relief, welfare and medical efforts. It may be minimal but we are going to be contributing to that effort and today we will be leaving for Haiti with a Jamaica Defence Force sea vessel," said Jackson.

He said that ODPEM was currently in discussions with private sector interests in Jamaica to solicit further assistance.

For more information contact ODPEM: telephone 1-876-928-5111-4; or toll free  1-888-991-4262

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