Flood update: Cayo residents get needed assistance

Meanwhile, in an update on the recent flooding, the National Emergency Management Organization has embarked on a project to replace household items to Cayo residents affected by the waters of the Mopan and Macal rivers. According to a press release on Monday, NEMO and the Cayo Disaster Emergency Committee distributed butane stoves, gas tanks, sofa sets, refrigerators and mattresses to twenty-five families in Calla Creek and nine in Bullet Tree Falls. To ensure accountability and transparency, village chairpersons are contacted and informed of what is being delivered to the village and who the recipients are. Once delivered, a family members signs for the items along with a member of the NEMO Relief Supplies Management Committee. The flood victims are also receiving help in the form of home repairs. Statistics from NEMO Minister Melvin Hulse are that a thousand and ten homes went underwater during the recent flooding, affecting more than sixteen hundred persons.

And as NEMO was handing out, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries were receiving. (FS) Today the Republic of China on Taiwan and OIRSA donated a total of eighty-eight thousand four hundred dollars in vegetable and corn seeds and fertilizers to Agric Minister Rene Montero. Director of the Taiwan Technical Mission, Hsuing Lin handed over eighty-four thousand dollars worth of supplies, while Fermin Blanco, Country Rep for OIRSA, gave four thousand four hundred dollars. The items will be distributed to farmers affected by the flooding.