Kingston, Jamaica, 24 September 2020. Radio Bess FM 100, a Jamaican radio station, dedicated its morning programme "The Morning Connection" today to inform the audience about Cuba’s scientific achievements and its healthcare workers’ contribution to the fight against Covid-19 in Jamaica.
Kingston, Jamaica, 24 September 2020. The Jamaica Patriotic Movement released today a Foreign Policy statement on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations, acknowledging the work of all members of the Cuban education and medical cooperation brigades in Jamaica, and speaking in favour of multilateralism, foreign aid to poor countries and the lifting of sanctions in times of pandemic.
Kingston, Jamaica, 23 September 2020. Professor Trevor Brown, president of the Jamaica-Cuba Friendship Association, sent us the text of the statement issued by that organization on the occasion of the 152 Anniversary of the Grito de Lares:
The Jamaica Cuba Friendship Association joins with the rest of progressive humanity in commemorating with our brothers and sisters of Puerto Rico, their heroic action 152 years ago, in a day immortalised in our collective consciousness, the anniversary of Grito de Lares.
Kingston, Jamaica, 21 September 2020. This morning, a group of twenty Cuban teachers (eight women and 12 men) arrived in Kingston on a charter flight from Havana, as part of the annual renewal of the staff of the Cuban Education Brigade in Jamaica.
They were welcomed at the airport by Ambassador Inés Fors Fernández, Head of the Cuban State Mission in Jamaica; Dr. Reynel Isalgue, Head of the Cuban Education Brigade in Jamaica; and officials from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information of Jamaica.
By Prensa Latina, in collaboration with EmbaCuba Jamaica
Kingston, Jamaica, 20 September 2020. Jamaican scholar and columnist Louis E. A. Moyston advocated today before the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) for an end to the U.S. blockade against Cuba, imposed for six decades.
In a request letter sent to CARICOM’s current chair and Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves, Moyston asked to explore the possibility of building alliances at the United Nations to demand the end of Washington's blockade on Havana.