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Guyana ships 3,000 bags of rice as food aid to Cuba
In the wake of the recent devastating hurricanes in Cuba, Guyana has stepped in and has assisted that country with six containers of rice slated to be transshipped to that country today.
In the wake of the recent devastating hurricanes in Cuba, Guyana has stepped in and has assisted that country with six containers of rice slated to be transshipped to that country today.
The containers, which are being loaded at the John Fernandes wharf, each contains 500 bags of rice.
During a visit to the wharf yesterday to observe the loading of the rice onto the containers, Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Elisabeth Harper, said that since the hurricanes in Cuba, parts of that country’s economy have been severely affected.
“The Government of Cuba has been extremely generous to the people and Government of Guyana in the past and they continue to give quite a lot of support in terms of technical and human resource development to Guyana.
The government says that it could do no less but to show its solidarity with the people of Cuba to donate this shipment of rice to help to eliminate the conditions in Cuba,” the Director General told members of the media.
Meanwhile, Charge D’Affaires of the Cuban Embassy, Pedro Artega, noted that the people and Government of Cuba are highly appreciative of the assistance given by Guyana.
He added that since 1972, Guyana and Cuba established diplomatic relations and the assistance from Guyana clearly demonstrates the solidarity shared between the two countries.
Almost two million Cubans have been affected by two of the worst disasters to strike the small island in the past 50 years. Those two hurricanes were Gustav and Ike.
Meanwhile, over the next six months, Cuba will also receive vital assistance from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). A BBC report has stated that the WFP will provide $5.7 in food rations, including rice, beans, vegetable oil, canned fish, a blended food compound of maize and soy fortified with vitamins and minerals.
A series of hurricanes – Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike—killed hundreds of people and caused billions of dollars in damages to infrastructure across the Caribbean. In addition to Cuba, Haiti and the Turks and Caicos Islands were among the hardest hit.
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