OTTAWA - The MP overseeing Canada's foreign aid is announcing $7 million in humanitarian relief for Caribbean states hit by Hurricane Melissa.

Randeep Sarai, secretary of state for international development, says $5 million will go to life-saving help through emergency response agencies and health providers.

The other $2 million will go to the World Food Programme to support its efforts to distribute food and other supplies to Jamaica.

Sarai says Canada is prepared to deploy relief supplies from its emergency stockpile through the Red Cross, if countries request that help.

He says Ottawa is looking at immediate needs but will also help the Caribbean in the next phase of its recovery from the Category 5 storm, which has killed dozens of people in Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti.

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