The Jamaican Government is to provide additional funds for disaster mitigation in the 2017/18 Supplementary Budget, which Finance Minister Audley Shaw says is slated to be tabled in the House of Representatives shortly.

This, he says, is necessary, as the initial $491 million allocated in the 2017/18 Estimates of Expenditure has been exhausted, consequent on adverse weather conditions that affected the island earlier this year causing extensive flooding across several communities.