Venezuelans get food supply from T&T

Venezuelans get food supply from T&T
Published on Jun 23, 2016, 3:40 pm AST
By Leah Sorias


One of the Venezuela military aircrafts that landed at the Piarco International Airport on Thursday to transport local food items to Venezuela after a meeting with Venezuelan officials and the Ministry of Trade on Tuesday. -Photo: ROBERT TAYLOR


Venezuela this morning began receiving the first batch of much needed food items from Trinidad and Tobago.

Early this morning, two cargo planes from Venezuela's military arrived at the Piarco International Airport and began airlifting tonnes of items including chicken tomato ketchup, spaghetti, milk and mayonnaise to the Latin American country, which is currently facing a food shortage.

VEMCO Limited director, national brands, Christopher Alcazar told the Express that US$100, 000 worth of Swiss Tomato Ketchup, Swiss Spaghetti, Kerrigold Powdered Milk and Swiss Mayonnaise were delivered to Venezuela. Arawak Company Limited's managing director Robin Phillips confirmed that a similar amount in chicken was also sent across.


Cargo employees load boxes of foodstuff onto a truck at the Piarco International Airport on Thursday. The items are bound for Venezuela following a meeting with Venezuelan officials and the Ministry of Trade on Tuesday. Some of the food items include flour, pasta, milk and ketchup.

The businessmen noted that according to the  terms and conditions of the arrangement with the Venezuelans, payment for the goods were made upfront.

“In regards to whether we received payment, as of noon today yes we have received the payment for the first part of goods that are being air freighted,” Alcazar said.

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helping neighbors ::confused:: ::confused:: ::confused::

yeh rite!  ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL::

interesting

dat so far, looks like mutually bebeficial business.  that's the best way to help :-[ :-[

well cooperation between the 2 cant hurt..save Titty is so small relative to Ven, they may get absorbed ultimately

but Titty can become right now the conduit Ven needs to beat off Oligarchy machinations to revers their leftist progress  20 years running.

but Maduro is an asshxle.  he knows what he must do but he is a starry eyed capitalist dreamer.  he will have to be removed by an internal revolution in his party or they will lose all next election

How shameful and pathetic. To import food from a poorer country with way less landmass and population. But yeah, venezuelans must face the consequences of let themselves being stopped by a gang of druglords and military criminals (PSUV) for more than fifteen years.
Now a lot of innocent people face starvation and disease for paying mistakes of others.