$75m in government assistance ‘a drop in the bucket’ for churches after crisis, says former JUGC chair

While commending the Government for allocating $75 million to assist churches’ recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, Immediate Past Chairman of the Jamaica Umbrella Groups of Churches, Dr Elaine McCarthy Nunes, said the sum is a “drop in the bucket”, given the scale of the damage and the extensive needs facing churches. “The $75 million that is being offered, when you spread it across the churches of Jamaica, it’s barely going to be enough, and the churches are going to get a bare minimum,” she said.