Caribbean Cement has donated 3000 bags of cement bearing market value of JMD3.2m (US$24,598) to Jamaica's Office of the Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) on Tuesday for the assistance of flood victims. The ODPEM will have responsibility in the distribution of the cement.

Sophia Lowe-Pinnock, corporate communication and public relations manager at Carib Cement, told The Gleaner that the decision to donate the item arrived out of a previous meeting with Prime Minister, Andrew Holness,. "As a company we saw the need; before we had the flooding about a month ago, the country was getting a tremendous amount of rainfall. We had a formal meeting with the prime minister and it was out of that, we recognised that this was something serious."