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Barbadian artists in a solidarity concert to close the “Journey from Terror to Life and Love".

Several Barbadian artists, in a combination of established professionals and young talents, staged an excellent free concert to close the program of activities commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Barbados Crime, held in Bridgetown on October 2-8. Thus they made the farewell to international delegates from Cuba, USA, Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago.

Caribbean Chapter of the International Network to approve a Plan of Action in Barbados.

Prominent intellectuals, academics, artists and social activists of seven islands that make up the Caribbean Chapter of the International Network In Defence of Humanity held a fruitful meeting during their participation in the program of activities commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Crime of Barbados in 1976. After starring in the launch of the global campaign for the UN to declare the 6 October as the International Day against Terrorism, its annual meeting focused on developing an action plan to carry out the campaign.

Statement by Prime Minister Freundel Stuart on 40th Anniversary of the crime

Forty years ago today, on October 6, 1976, Cubana Airlines flight CU 455 succumbed to a proven act of terrorism, with the loss of life of Cuban nationals, Guyanese nationals and nationals of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Terrorism in its modern form has been therefore known in the English-speaking Caribbean for at least 40 years and its impact still reverberates with us today. The arrests in Trinidad and Tobago following the act and the trial in Venezuela, pointed directly to the perpetrators, who have never been punished in a manner consistent with their horrible crime.

Barbadian Chancellor to lay a wreath for the victims of the terrorist attack.

Just before her speech on behalf of the Barbadian government, the Hon. Maxine McClean, Minister of Foreign Relations and Foreign Trade, laid a wreath at the monument erected to the victims of crime in Paynes Bay, accompanied by Camilo Rojo, representative of the Committee of the Families of Victims, who follow the Minister making similar action together with the rest of the Cuban delegation that attended the commemoration, led by Cuban Hero Fernando Gonzalez, vice president of ICAP and one of the infamous Case of the Cuban Five.

Chancellor of Barbados calls for Peace and Justice 40 years after the crime

Barbadians have been told they must continue to demonstrate their abhorrence of terrorism and strive for peace. The call came as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Maxine McClean, addressed the commemorative ceremony for the 40th anniversary of the Cubana Air Disaster, which occurred on October 6, 1976, just off Barbados’ shores. Speaking at the site of the memorial monument at Paynes Bay, St.

Chancellor of Barbados welcomes attendees to the 40th anniversary of the terrorist attack.

The Honorable Senator and Barbadian Foreign Minister Maxine McClean, received international delegations from Cuba, the US and the Caribbean attending the commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Crime of Barbados. She was accompanied by Mr. Robert Morris, Ambassador to CARICOM, Sandra Gittens, Section Chief of the Caribbean, and other Foreign Ministry officials.

Delegations from Cuba, USA and the Caribbean in educational presentation to the Barbadian youth commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Cubana´s 1976 terrorist tragedy.

The US actor and social activist, Danny Glover, the Cuban Hero, Fernando Gonzalez Llort, the son of a crew member who died in the terrorist attack on the flight CU-455 of Cubana, Camilo Rojo, and the Barbadian lawyer David Comissiong, President of Clement Payne Movement and Coordinator of the Caribbean Chapter of the International Network in Defense of Humanity, joined a panel discussion dedicated to the youth and students of the island.

Caribbean Chapter of the Network in Defence of Humanity wants October 6 to be declared by UN as the International Day against Terrorism.

In a prestigious international panel of discussion held in Barbados as part of the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Cuban airliner in October 1976, it was released in recent days a worldwide campaign to have the UN declare on October 6 as the International Day against Terrorism. It was comprised of Dr.

Opposition Leader receives delegations from Cuba and the Caribbean attending the program for the 40th Anniversary of the Barbados Crime´s commemoration.

The Honourable Mia Mottley, President of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, received at its headquarters to international delegations attending the program activities commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Crime of Barbados. It was accompanied by MPs of his party, Edmund Hinkson and Trevor Prescod.

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