Kingston, 17 December 2025. Ambassador Tania López Larroque presented to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, the copies of the letters of credence that will accredit her as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Cuba to Jamaica.
Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba
On December 10, 2025, US military forces rapelled onto an oil tanker while it sailed in international waters in the Caribbean Sea, off the Venezuelan coasts.
Kingston, 8 December 2025. On the date marking the 53rd anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Cuba and Jamaica, Ambassador-designate Tania López Larroque arrived in the capital of the Caribbean nation. She was received at Norman Manley International Airport by officials from the Protocol Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica and the Chargé d'Affaires a.i. of the Diplomatic Mission, Rolando Dávila Gallardo.
Between 8 and 12 August 1972, the Conference of Foreign Ministers of the Non-Aligned Movement was held in the Cooperative Republic of Guyana.
This was the first time that a meeting of the movement had been held in Latin America and the Caribbean. The meeting was preparatory to the Fourth Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, which was to be held in Algeria in 1973.
As we reflect on Cuba Caricom Day which is commemorated on the 8th of December each year, we go back 53 years ago in 1972, when 4 of our recently independent states namely, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago,took the bold and historic step in establishing diplomatic relations with our sister country Cuba.This was done despite the pressures and shenanigans of USA and its regional enforcer, the Organisation of American States(OAS)