Last Updated on April 12, 2020, 4:07 AM AST by Anthony Morris
In a Facebook posting Saturday, Tish Duncan Adams asked a question about 70,000 enriched meals donated to the Timothy Harris-led coalition in April 2019.
“Somebody answer me plz, member some time ago the government had gotten an aircraft full of food and supplies? Where is the food? Some ppl running low, some just don’t have, some out of a job and can’t afford to shop like others,” posted Adams with the hashtag
The question is being asked as hundreds of residents have lost their jobs as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) with the closure of hotels, restaurants, taxi and bus services, manufacturing plants, vending and other businesses, have aimed at the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance Dr the Hon Timothy Harris for spreading hunger and not keeping his promise of giving financial assistance which he had made since March 24.
Mystery still surrounds the whereabouts of some 10,000 pounds of food donated to St Kitts and Nevis under the Denton programme in April 2019.
What is known is that the 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 per cent of the population generating less than $53 (U.S. Dollars) of weekly income.”
A news release issued by the U.S. Air Force said that the food packets would 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 Social Services and Community Development Ministry.
Since the cargo was offloaded in April 2019, Prime Minister Dr the Hon Timothy Harris and Minister of State with responsibility for Social and Community Development, Sen the Hon Wendy Phipps have not provided any information on the distribution of the 70,000 enriched meals.
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