Kingston, Jamaica, 15 March 2021.- Interviewed by Television Jamaica (TVJ), Cuban nurse Maria Ofelia Hernández Rivera offered details about the health care provided to patients infected with COVID in the Intensive Care Unit of the University Hospital of the West Indies, in this capital.
Kingston, Jamaica, 11 March 2021. The Cuban Ambassador to Jamaica, Mrs. Inés Fors Fernández, received today at the headquarters of the diplomatic mission Ms. Lavern Stewart, principal of the Fidel Castro Campus of the Anchovy High School, and Mr. Calvin Brown, board chairman in that educational institution, located in the northern city of Montpellier, St. James.
Kingston, Jamaica, 7 March 2021. In an article entitled “The Cuban teachers who put their all into educating Jamaica's young”, published by the Jamaican newspaper The Observer in its Sunday edition, it was praised the work of the Cuban Education Brigade in Jamaica.
Following an interview with Cuban teachers who provide services in the Caribbean nation, the newspaper highlighted the contribution of the 83 teachers from the Greatest Island in the Antilles, who teach 35,665 students in 41 primary schools; 24 secondary schools and 3 colleges.
Kingston, Jamaica, 5 March 2021. Doctor Opal Palmer Adisa, University Director of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, visited the Embassy of Cuba in this capital, and had a fluent conversation with the Ambassador of the Greatest Island in the Antilles to Jamaica, Mrs. Inés Fors Fernández.
Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, 25 February 2021. Members of the “Henry Reeve” International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics who provide medical services in this British overseas territory were awarded the Heroes of the Pandemic award.
The group of Cuban health professionals, made up of twenty doctors and nurses, arrived in the Turks and Caicos Islands on June 15, 2020 and since then they have contributed to the fight against Covid-19 in that territory.