Dec
09
2025
Cuba hails 53 years of diplomatic ties with CARICOM
Guyana, Georgetwon, December 9, 2025.
Guyana, Georgetwon, December 9, 2025.
December 8, 2025 (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) – The eighth of December 2025 marks the Fifty-Third Anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago, the four then independent Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States, and Cuba. That bold act of 8 December 1972 has evolved steadily into a fruitful and mutually beneficial friendship between all CARICOM Member States and Cuba.
Guyana, Georgetwon, December 8, 2025. Today, December 8, 2025, Cuba and CARICOM celebrate the 53rd anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the independent states of CARICOM and Cuba, and the 23rd anniversary of Cuba-CARICOM Day.Four small Caribbean nations, in a courageous political decision, chose to establish diplomatic relations with Cuba.
Guyana, Georgetown, November 9, 2025. The Ambassador of Cuba to the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, Jorge Francisco Soberón Luis, participated alongside representatives of the accredited diplomatic corps in the country and government authorities in the ceremony honoring those fallen in the First and Second World Wars. During the ceremony, the Cuban Ambassador laid a wreath.
Guyana, Georgetwon, August 13, 2025. GUYANA’S growing demand for qualified medical personnel has received a welcome boost with the graduation of five more Guyanese doctors from the University of Medical Sciences of Havana, Cuba.
The newly-minted physicians: Dr. Savanna Sumintra Pearson, Dr. Ronichia Schwiers, Dr. Christopher Lakish, Dr. Renecia Mickle, and Dr. Alexander Giddel Isaacs, will soon return home to serve under the Ministry of Health.