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Antigua and Barbuda national returns after missing for 32 years
V.C. BIRD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, St. George, Antigua and Barbuda – 20th May……There were scenes of unbridled joy at VC Bird International Airport on Tuesday morning as an Antiguan national was flown home from Venezuela, after having been missing for 32 years and 5 months.
Denise Odelia Charles was welcomed home after landing on a private jet shortly after 10am.
She was greeted by Prime Minister Hon. Gaston Browne, whom she thanked for facilitating her return to Antigua. There were tears of joy during the surreal family reunion.
Charles is expected to speak in detail in coming weeks about the circumstances that led to her being in Venezuela for over three decades.
The Venezuelan Government arranged for the private charter flight to transport her, as well her brother Terrence Charles and nephew Tishorn Watson, back to Antigua.
Prime Minister Hon. Gaston Browne expressed his elation at the incredible outcome of this case, and the role he and his administration were able to play in securing Charles’ return. He says this story demonstrates the importance of Antiguans and Barbudans remaining hopeful and positive.
“The government would have intervened and we would have collaborated with the government of Venezuela. President Maduro has been extremely benevolent in making air transportation available.
He organized a special charter to fly her to Antigua. Herself and her family, who we sponsored to travel to Venezuela to repatriate her here.
So we’re very pleased to have her back and we make sure we put the necessary steps in place to have her fully integrated or reintegrated within our society.
In fact, we have guaranteed her a job. I’m quite sure that she can assist us in many areas. She also has language skills. She speaks Spanish fluently.
So that in itself is an asset. And I will make sure that she’s properly integrated into the society so that she does not become a charge on the state,” said Prime Minister Browne.
In highlighting the callboration of his government with the government of Venezuela, Prime Minister Browne said that these efforts demonstrate his government’s foreign policy of Antigua and Barbuda being friends of all.
“I have always maintained that Antigua and Barbuda is too small, too vulnerable to have enemies. That we are friends of all and we will remain friends of all.
And it is, developments like these that actually enforce, or reinforce for that matter, the value and certainly the importance of our thinking. It’s pointless getting into any geopolitical spat with anyone.
And at the end of day, if we were to get involved in these geopolitical spats, when these nations would have settled their differences, which happen from time to time, then we would get left out in the cold.
So we have always maintained that we will be standing in principle, always, and that we will remain friends of all.
We may have little differences from time to time, but nothing sustaining, and we will not maintain any acrimony with any nation.
We will continue to be friends of all,” the country’s leader stated.
Minister for Social Transformation, the Hon. Rawdon Turner was also at the airport to welcome home Denise Charles.
He has been charged to work with the family to ensure the smooth integration of Charles into the Antigua and Barbuda society. (Ends)
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What an incredible story—welcome home!
Lawd, 32 years? Imagine di joy and di pain all at once.
So many questions… how did she survive all this time?
Mi glad fi know she alive, cause dat long time fi somebody fi be missing.
Imagine being gone for 32 years and walking back into a whole new world.
Can the police please confirm a missing person bulletin for this lady.
Can the family member please confirm when they made a report to the police about her being missing.
Was she rearly missing? Or
She severed ties with her family and moved on…….
So many questions
There is hope, all the missing people are working modern day sugar plantation. One day they will return hom
Is anyone going to address the elephant in the room? How did she get to Venezuela and who was supporting her? Did shady people snatch her from Antigua in human trafficking and was she a sex slave? If it was a kidnap are charges going to laid? How is her mental health? No one in their right mind and have their freedom would stay away from their family for 32 years! Who is she coming back to and is she a danger to this society? What if she has been brainwashed and is coming back to snatched little girls and send them off to an underground slavery ring? There are pertinent questions that MUST be addressed to the general public. A press conference needs to be called with the police and relevant authorities like the officials from gender affairs.
you too noarzee and lub neargah bizniz!!! In time to come, she will CHOOSE whether or not she wants to share those details!!!! Mek de woman enjoy the time withshe family and get settled in.
U busy a search fu she bizniz and you nah even know dat you a get knuckle!
No one gives a fuck!!!
All this about Gaston intervening and all that.
People want to know how she went missing.
What conditions was she living under in Venezuela? I understand she doesn’t have documents to legally reside in Venezuela after all this time. Did she work? Was she abducted? Held captive? I don’t understand.
you sound ANGRY and BITTER? Herpes acting up? vaginal itch cream ran out?