THE Bailiff’s Disaster Relief Fund has given £30,000 to Haiti.

About £20,000 has been sent to the Disasters Emergency Committee with a further £10,000 expected to be donated today.

The fund reacted quickly to the earthquake earlier this month, which killed 200,000 people and left 1.5 million homeless.

‘Nobody could fail to have been touched by the misery resulting from the earthquake which has devastated Haiti,’ said Bailiff Sir Geoffrey Rowland (pictured).

‘There still remains an increasingly remote chance that people may be recovered alive from wrecked buildings.

‘As the month has progressed, the full extent of the disaster has become plain. The United Nations had soon declared that the earthquake has caused the biggest humanitarian disaster in its history.’

Sir Geoffrey said that the island’s sympathy was with the families of the bereaved.

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