Falmouth, 18 February 2025. Diplomats from the Embassy of Cuba in Jamaica and the coordinator of the Educational Brigade Reynel Isalgué Isalgué participated in the Roylan Barret Memorial Lecture, which had as its central theme: ‘Cuba-United States Relations, the old, the new and the future’.
In this context, Third Secretary Anabel Landrón Ochoa made a presentation to the attendees on the milestones that have marked the development of relations between the two nations, emphasising the impact on the development of the Cuban people of the genocidal policy of the blockade and the permanence of our country on the spurious and discredited list of countries sponsoring terrorism. The diplomat reflected on the consequences of the measures announced by Donald Trump's administration, as well as the decision to use the territory illegally occupied by the Guantanamo Naval Base as a migrant detention centre. She ratified our country's decision not to give up on building a ‘Republic with all and for the good of all’, despite the difficulties.
On the other hand, Melissa Beckford-Simpson, president of the Association of History Teachers of Jamaica, underlined that the current US administration is ‘recycling’ failed policies employed centuries ago with the aim of subjecting the Cuban people to its will, without achieving the proposed results.
Those present agreed on the importance of Caribbean nations coming together to demand more vehemently an end to these unilateral coercive policies against Cuba.
The Roylan Barrett Memorial Lecture is organised annually by Holland High School to honour a prominent figure in the Falmouth, Trelawny.