Last Updated on July 9, 2019, 2:31 PM AST by Anthony Morris
Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of some 10,000 pounds of food donated to St Kitts and Nevis under the Denton programme in April earlier this year.
Leader of the Opposition, the Rt Hon Dr Denzil L Douglas had no information when asked by a telephone caller to Freedom 106.5 FM’s “Issues” programme about the food brought to St Kitts’ Robert L Bradshaw International Airport by a United States military aircraft.
“Nobody has heard much about the food that came aboard the U S military aircraft. Our people need to know,” responded Dr Douglas.
United States Airforce Staff Sgt. Della Creech in a news release said the humanitarian aid coordinated through the Denton Program was to assist “an estimated 13,000 St. Kittitian households classified as poor with approximately 25 percent of the population generating less than $53 (U.S. Dollars) of weekly income.”
“These food packets will provide 70,000 safe and nutrition enriched meals to 5,952 men, women and children of St. Kitts and Nevis, as stated by the community-based organizations of ATime4US Foundation Incorporated, Mickey’s HOPE, and the Ministry of Social Services and Community Development,” a news release issued by the US Air Force said.
Since the cargo was offloaded early April, the Team Unity Government has not provided any information on the distribution of the 70,000 enriched meals.
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