MIRAMAR, Fla. — The Jamaican national anthem echoed through the city hall lawn in Miramar on Thursday morning.
City leaders were joined by Jamaica’s consul-general in Miami and Food for the Poor to hold a news conference discussing ongoing relief efforts in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa devastated the island.
Mayor Wayne Messam listed items in high demand, including tarps, generators, canned foods, unperishable foods, flashlights, batteries, tents, water, sleeping bags, work gloves, industrial sponges and first aid kits.
Residents dropped off items at Miramar police headquarters and multiple fire stations around town and were assured the items will make it to the hurricane-ravaged island.
Commissioner Maxwell Chambers, a Jamaican immigrant himself, described the pain of the city’s sizable Jamaican-American population who have loved ones on the island.
“There (are) a lot of people who still have not heard from their loved ones,” Chambers said.
Other entities across South Florida are also collecting donations.
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