Wellington 7 January 2016. – The Cuban community in New Zealand has been promoting the knowledge of Cuban culture through various projects that have matured over a decade, from which the development of initiatives related to music and dance can be highlighted.
Foreign Ministry representatives of both countries meet to discuss issues of common interest for the next chairmanship of the Association of Caribbean States (AEC) which will be occupied by Cuba in the period 2016-2017. To this end, the Director of the Caricom-Caribbean Unit, Rodney Taylor, Ambassador of Barbados to Caricom, Robert Morris, and the official Mandisa Downes, received the Cuban Ambassador Francisco Fernández Peña.
St. John’s January 4, 2016. At the Cuban Embassy in Antigua and Barbuda multiple political personalities, diplomats, graduates of Cuba, residents and Cubans in that Caribbean nation, gathered to celebrate the 57th Anniversary of the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
THE BAHAMAS, December 22th, 2015. - Today the Ambassador of Cuba to The Bahamas, Ismara M. Vargas Walter, visited several public hospitals in Freeport, the second most important island of the Bahamian Archipelago.
Just a day after signing the collaboration agreement on health between Cuba and The Bahamas, the Ambassador exchanged views with managers and medical staff of Rand Memorial Hospital as well as other public clinics which will welcome the Cuban medical brigade in a few weeks.
In a meeting with Mrs. De-Jane Gibbons, Assistant Representative of the Agency of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for the Caribbean, Cuban Ambassador to Barbados, Francisco Fernandez, expressed approval of his government to evaluate various triangular cooperation projects for the benefit of other Eastern Caribbean nations in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, early pregnancy and related, for which Cuba would bring their experiences and experts in the coming year 2016.