NewYork, USA, 6 November 2019. “The blockade is the main obstacle to the sustainable development of Cubans and their economy,” said Ambassador Courtenay Rattard, Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Jamaica to the United Nations, in the context of this international organization's General Assembly.
Kingston, Jamaica, 4 November 2019. William James Charles Hutchinson, Minister without portfolio of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries of Jamaica leads the delegation of his country participating in the International Fair of Havana (FIHAV) 2019, which will take place in the Cuban capital from 4 to 8 November.
The Jamaican minister is accompanied by executives and officials from the Agency for the Promotion of Trade and Investment of Jamaica (JAMPRO) and representatives of companies of the Caribbean nation.
Kingston, Jamaica, 3 November 2019. Christina Williams, President of the Student Guild at the University of the West Indies, Mona campus, paid a courtesy call on the Cuban Ambassador to Jamaica, H.E Mrs. Inés Fors Fernández.
During the cordial meeting, the student leader made a brief presentation on the work carried out by the organization she chairs.
Along with the Cuban diplomat, Williams assesed possible areas of future exchange between the Embassy and students from this Higher Education institution.
Havana, Cuba, 1 November 2019. The Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party, José Ramón Machado Ventura, received a delegation from the People's National Party (PNP) of Jamaica, who traveled to the Greatest Island of the Antilles to attend the Anti-Imperialist Meeting of Solidarity, for Democracy and Against Neoliberalism.
Havana, Cuba, 31 October 2019. Deputy Rolando González Patricio, Vice president of the International Relations Commission of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) received, on Thursday afternoon, a delegation from the People's National Party (PNP) of Jamaica, headed by its President Dr. Peter David Phillips.
During the meeting, which took place at the National Capitol, the institutional headquarters of the highest State body, both parties acknowledged the good state of relations between the two countries and discussed current international issues.