The government and aid agencies are making plans to ship aid and volunteers out to Jamaica to assist after the devastation of Hurricane Ivan.
Two Royal Navy vessels with technicians and medical staff on board are en route to the area and the government has humanitarian experts on standby.

Oxfam is flying staff out as soon as the airports reopen and said providing drinking water would be the priority.

A phone number has been set up by the Foreign Office for concerned relatives.

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