The Cuban Embassy hosted a farewell event for students who are leaving Belize to pursue studies in Cuba. The students were selected from a pool of about seventy applicants to form a part of this y ear’s cohort of the CUBA-CARICOM programme through which Cuba provides scholarships to citizens of its sister nations of the Caribbean Community. Students from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean have benefitted from this program.
Ireland, 24 August 2017. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland has confirmed the completion of the corresponding internal processes for the entry into force on 9 August 2017 of the Memorandum of Cooperation between the Government of the Republic of Cuba and the Government of Ireland signed in Havana by the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment of Cuba Antonio Luis Carricarte Corona and the Minister of State for Justice of Ireland Deputy David Stanton.
Organized by the Cuban Institute of History, the Second International Symposium “The Cuban Revolution: Origins and Historic Development” will take place in the capital’s International Conference Center October 24-26. According to MSc René González Barrios, president of the organizing committee speaking to Granma, the event seeks to encourage the exchange of ideas and knowledge from within the fields of social sciences and humanities toward better understanding this historic process in its complexity.
Executives and members of the Iran-Cuba Friendship Association (AAIC) and the House of Latin America (HOLA) met at the Residence of Cuba in Tehran to hold a fraternal encounter with the staff of the diplomatic mission of the Island and to say good-bye to the Ambassador Vladimir González Quesada, who finishes his four-year mission in the Persian nation.
The Cuban Embassy offered a farewell activity to a new group of Vincentian youths, benefiting from scholarships, granted by the Cuban Government from the 2017-2018 academic year.
These young people, who will study medicine, health technology and computing, travel with the firm commitment to prepare themselves as highly qualified professionals to serve their country and their compatriots in the spirit of humanism, altruism and responsibility.
This commitment was adopted before their parents and other relatives, present at the meeting.