The Cuban nurse, resident in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Arianna Israel-Taylor, a member of the Heberprot-P team at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, attended the International Congress "Controlling Diabetes and Its most severe complications," held in December 2016 at the Hotel Melia Marina Convention Center in Varadero.
In the afternoon of December 4, an act of remembrance and tribute to Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz was held at the Cuban Embassy in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, in which participated the Cuban residents, a representation of Cuban collaborators in health care, the Ambassador of Venezuela, H.E Yuri Pimentel and the officials of that diplomatic mission, as well as the H.E Dexter Rose, former Ambassador of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in Cuba.