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estimated at J$182.7 million provided additional and much needed support. Thus, a total of J$277.6 million (or its equivalent of US$4.5 million) was used to meet the emergency requirements arising from the hurricane. By October 11, a month after the disaster occurred, only 310 persons remained in shelters, down from a peak of 1 000 families in the days immediately after the hurricane. Table 1-2 Summary of Emergency Expenditures following Hurricane Ivan as of October 11, 2004 ($) Agency Relief Operations J$ National Solid Waste Management Authority Clean up operations Region Trips NEPM 833 5 131 000 SPM 171 4 065 106 MPM/NERU 1516 12 543 200 MPM/NERU 4500 33 070 000 Subtotal 7 020.0 54,809,306.0 Estimated outstanding balance 12,202,250.0 Estimated outstanding balance Landfill cover material supplied by NWA 20 000 000.0 ODPEM Household items and materials 5 863 590.6 Post Ivan Clean up Equipment and Labourers 2 070 000.0 Subtotal 94 945 146.6 Foreign Emergency Assistance Goods and monetary assistance 182 678 144.4 Total Emergency Relief Expenditure 277 623 291.0 Source: ECLAC based on official data 3. Affected population The most recent population and housing census of 2001, reported that the population of Jamaica was 2.6 million persons spread throughout the country’s fourteen parishes. When Ivan struck the island on September 10, 2004, the projected population was 2.65 million. 2 Fourteen per cent of 2 As reported by Government of Jamaica based on the Demographic Statistics 2003. 7
the total population or some 369 685 persons was directly affected by the natural disaster. Many of these persons were found in the direct path of the hurricane in Clarendon, St. Elizabeth, Westmoreland, Kingston and St. Andrew and Manchester. The following map has been prepared by the PIOJ to show the location of the affected communities. Seventeen persons lost their lives as a direct result of the hurricane, eight from Kingston and St, Andrew, six from Clarendon (all from Portland Cottage), two from St. Catherine and one from Manchester. Deaths occurred due to fallen trees, collapsed roofs, mudslides or persons being swept away by floodwaters. There were another fourteen deaths indirectly related to the hurricane. Nine of those deaths occurred in KSA, two each were reported from St. Elizabeth and St. Ann, and one from Hanover. At the beginning of October there were at least 38 shelters still opened island wide, housing some 493 persons. The majority of these were in the parishes of Clarendon, Manchester, St. Elizabeth and St. Catherine, where a total of 23 shelters with 350 persons were still opened as of October 2, 2004 8
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