Cox: MPs to distribute Xmas food cards

MINISTER of Social Development Donna Cox on Friday presented Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh with 200 Christmas food cards for needy individuals in his St Joseph constituency, at her ministry on St Vincent Street, Port of Spain.

“This is for the vulnerable in his constituency,” she said.

Cox told reporters each of Trinidad and Tobago’s 41 MPs will get cards to give their needy constituents. Each card is worth $550. Asked how they would be distributed, Cox said MPs, their staff and their local councillors would know the people in the constituency who were in need especially during the Christmas period.

She said the sum was included in the national budget.