Florida Is Shipping Medical Supplies and Starlink Systems to Jamaica After Hurricane Melissa, DeSantis Says
Florida's hurricane machinery is pointing south this week: the governor says the state is sending medical supplies, satellite internet systems and law-enforcement personnel to Jamaica as the island recovers from Hurricane Melissa.
Florida is sending help to Jamaica. Governor Ron DeSantis said Monday that the state is shipping medical supplies and Starlink internet systems to the island and sending Florida law-enforcement personnel to assist, after Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica, according to WLRN's report read by this desk.
The package pairs the two things a storm-battered island loses first: care and communications. Medical supplies go to the treatment side of the recovery, while the Starlink systems are the kind of satellite link Florida itself has leaned on to reconnect cut-off communities after its own hurricanes - a playbook this state knows from the receiving end.
Florida is not the only responder moving. U.S. Southern Command is also deploying disaster-relief forces to the region, WLRN reported. No shipment quantities or flight schedules were announced in the reporting read by this desk, and none are reported here; what is confirmed is the direction of travel - out of Florida, toward Jamaica, in the week after Melissa.
