The deputy minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Rogelio Sierra Díaz, begins today an official visit to Barbados, as part of the journey that began on June 5 throughout five Caribbean countries, accompanied by the director of Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, Jorge Luis Mayo Fernández. Barbados has a special meaning for Cuba, because together with Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Jamaica, they established diplomatic relations with Cuba simultaneously on December 8, 1972. As part of the program to be developed in the island, the Cuban Vice Chancellor will hold a working meeting with his counterpart, Permanent Secretary Simone Rudder. He will also pay courtesy calls to the Governor General, Her Excellency Dame Sandra Prunella Mason, to the Prime Minister, The Honorable Mia Amor Mottley and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Honorable Senator Dr. Jerome Walcott, as well as other meetings with personalities from the Barbadian society.