Miami Heat, Carnival Cruise Line to ship $1M in supplies for Melissa-impacted Jamaicans

The Miami Heat have teamed up with Carnival Cruise Line to help Jamaica rebound from tragedy in the aftermath of a devastating hurricane The basketball unit on Sunday with Carnival and the nonprofit Direct Relief to pack up pallets of critical clinical supplies at PortMiami to be shipped to Jamaica The million donation includes hygiene kits clinical items and other essential goods It was all loaded onto the Carnival Horizon to be taken to Ocho Rios where it will arrive later next week We all come together you know to try to figure out tactics that we can help our fans in the Caribbean declared former Heat athlete Alonzo Mourning There s still continuing need so we do encourage our fans we do encourage South Florida to continue to endorsement by visiting DirectRelief org supportJamaica and please make your donations there mentioned Miami Heat representative Ralph Leon Their effort is part of a huge humanitarian response to deliver a total of tons of aid to the island in the wake of Hurricane Melissa s path of destruction