Georgetown, June 12, 2018. Cuba's Deputy Foreign Minister, Rogelio Sierra Díaz, arrived in Guyana on Tuesday to pay courtesy visits to President David Granger, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and Minister of State and Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Joseph Harmon.
The Cuban Vice-Chancellor will hold bilateral meetings with the Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Audrey Waddell; the Acting Secretary and Assistant Secretary General for Human and Social Development of CARICOM, Dr. Douglas Slater; the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Public Health of Guyana, Collette Adams, and other government officials.
The Cuban diplomat will also visit the Center for the Stimulation of Children, Adolescents and Youth with Special Educational Needs Associated with Disabilities at the Cyril Potter School of Education (CPCE) complex and pay tribute to the victims of the sabotage against Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 on October 6, 1976, where 73 people lost their lives, including 11 Guyanese, 5 North Korean and 57 Cuban citizens, with a wreath of flowers placed on the Monument to the Victims of Terrorism, located on the campus of the University of Guyana.