US poised to help storm-threatened Jamaica

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CRAWFORD, United States (AFP) — The United States is prepared to send disaster relief assistance to Jamaica if it becomes necessary after the passage of powerful hurricane Dean, the White House said Saturday.

The US package would include aid teams, relief supplies, water containers, medicine, generators, and disaster hygiene kits, national security spokesman Gordon Johndroe said as US President George W. Bush was on his Texas ranch.

The US ambassador in Jamaica, Brenda LaGrange Johnson, has been working closely with Jamaican authorities on what to include in the aid package "should it be necessary," Johndroe told reporters.

Top officials from the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have also been in touch with their counterparts in Mexico on...