BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) governments have sent messages of empathy to the United States after a tornado killed more 24 people including nine children in Oklahoma on Monday. Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister, Baldwin Spencer, who is in Doha, attending the 13th Session of the Doha Forum, sent a message to President Barrack Obama expressing condolences and indicating that “our prayers are with your government and the people of Oklahoma through this difficult period”. Insurance companies estimate that the damage caused by the tornado could run into billions of dollars and the residents of Moore begin the task of burying their dead, Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller also sent a letter to President Obama expressing “sorrow at the widespread destruction and tragic loss of lives in the state of Oklahoma.