Kingston, Jamaica, 2 January 2021. On the occasion of the 62nd Anniversary of the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution, former Prime Minister of Jamaica, Portia Simpson-Miller, posted some emotional words on her Facebook profile, which are reproduced below:
Today Marks the 62nd Anniversary of the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
Kingston, Jamaica, 1 January 2021. In a simple political-cultural-recreational activity, the collective of the Embassy of Cuba in Jamaica celebrated this Friday the advent of new year 2021 and the 62nd Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution.
On this occasion, due to the measures in place to control the spread of Codiv-19 in Jamaica, the celebration was postponed to January 1 at noon, and the traditional New Year's Eve dinner became a luncheon. Also in observance of sanitary measures, the celebration was attended by a limited number of participants.
Message from the Board of Directors of the Association of Cuban Residents in Jamaica "Antonio Maceo Grajales" on New Year’s Eve and the advent of the 62nd anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution.
Dear CUBAN brothers, our Association of Cuban Residents in Jamaica "Antonio Maceo Grajales" wishes to congratulate all its compatriots, inside and outside Cuba, on New Year’s Eve and the advent of the 62nd anniversary of the triumph of our Cuban Revolution.
Kingston, Jamaica, 28 December, 2020. Just last week, the penultimate of the year, several Jamaican media spread news related to Cuba's progress in the search for an effective vaccine against Covid-19. This way, they responded the growing interest of the public in a context characterized by uncertainty in the face of news about the finding and rapid spread of a new strain of the virus that is much more contagious than the one known so far.
Kingston, Jamaica, 17 December 2020. With 40 Cuban healthcare professionals newly arriving in Jamaica, the bonds of medical cooperation between the two Caribbean nations continue to grow stronger.
The arrival of doctors and nurses from the Greatest Island in the Antilles reconfirms Cuba's vocation for solidarity in a scenario marked by a complex international epidemiological situation, and validates Cuban President Miguel Díaz Canel's statement at the opening session of the recently held Seventh CARICOM-Cuba Summit, when he said: