Additional hurricane relief to assist the Bahamas still remains in Bermuda after the island’s first consignment of donations was sent two weeks ago.

Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, said that the Government would welcome help with extra costs to send further aid to the islands.

Some islands in the north, particularly Abaco, were left in ruins by Hurricane Dorian at the start of this month. “We’re talking about $1.5 million to $1.7 million of goods,” Mr Caines said on Tuesday.

“So, first of all, we’d like to thank the people of Bermuda for giving.”

Goods are no longer being kept in the Hamilton Seventh-day Adventist Centre, where the initial wave of collections was assembled and packaged.

The first load was sent on September 9 aboard the Royal Navy ship HMS Protector, and Mr Caines said a second load had been “sent to a staging area”.

He added: “A number of our local shippers, at their personal expense, packaged and shipped it overseas.”

The minister said the remaining goods faced “about $15,000 in cost”.

He added: “We just need some good benefactors to help us underwrite the cost of the last bit of these goods going overseas.

“We need help getting the $15,000 of these costs defrayed.”