Emergency Fund: Carib Cement donates $7.7 million towards Hurricane Beryl disaster relief efforts.

A team from Caribbean Cement Company Limited presents care packages of non-perishable food items and building materials to the community of Woodside, Clarendon, at the Denbigh Church of the Nazarene, on July 9. A similar handover has been made to other communities.

According to a news release, Caribbean Cement Company Limited (Carib Cement) has donated about JMD $7.7 million through an Emergency Disaster Relief Fund to assist communities who are severely impacted by the passage of Hurricane Beryl. The funds are being made available through its parent company, Cemex, and have already been used to provide care packages of non-perishable food items, also sheets of zinc, zinc screws and plyboards. Quantities of cement have also been allocated to the communities.