BDF Deploys Advance Party To Venezuela

An advance team from the Barbados Defence Force (BDF) is currently deployed in earthquake-affected Venezuela to establish its Field Medical Hospital.

The team, accompanied by Ambassador to Venezuela, Commander Aquinas Clarke, left the island on Friday, June 26, along with officials of the Venezuelan Embassy.

It is currently conducting preliminary site assessments and coordination, pending formal authorisation of full-scale deployment.

Meanwhile, Barbados has also sent a search-and-rescue team consisting of members of the BDF and the Barbados Fire Service, who arrived in Venezuela last night. The Team is equipped with Urban Search and Rescue Equipment and is headed by BDF Captain Shawn Brome. (PR/GIS)

Caption: Barbados’ Ambassador to Venezuela, Commander Aquinas Clarke (centre), and
Vice Minister for Risk Management and Civil Protection of Venezuela, and the National Director of Civil Protection, Admiral Juan Carlos Oti Paituvi (second left), with Venezuelan officials and BDF personnel on the ground in Caracas, Venezuela.