Overview
- Global Affairs Canada announced $7 million in humanitarian assistance following the Category 5 hurricane’s devastation across multiple Caribbean countries.
- $5 million will support emergency food, water, sanitation, health services, protection and logistics through humanitarian partners.
- $2 million is earmarked for the World Food Programme’s Caribbean Regional Logistics Hub, which is dispatching food and relief items to Jamaica.
- Ottawa stands ready to release relief supplies from Canadian stockpiles via the Red Cross upon request and continues to coordinate through CDEMA and other partners.
- Canada has deployed rapid‑response personnel, supported access to UN crisis funds, and reports no Canadian deaths as of Oct. 29 while advising citizens to follow local guidance.