The Venezuelan Embassy announced yesterday that it had facilitated “a shipment of 16,000 barrels of gasoline and diesel fuel”, which arrived in the country yesterday following an emergency request from the Government of Guyana.
A press release issued yesterday afternoon, said: “The Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela would like to inform the people of Guyana” that a Panama-registered vessel, MT Caribbean Pearl, arrived in Guyana’s waters at 3 am yesterday and entered port at 9.45 am.
The release said: “this supply of fuel constitutes an extraordinary shipment to attend to the emergency that the Government of Guyana presented last week through the Prime Minister Samuel Hinds