Port of Spain, October 30. Secretary General Alfonso Múnera received a courtesy visit from the Ambassador Isabel Allende, Rector of the Raul Roa Garcia Higher Institute of International Relations, accompanied by the Ambassador of Cuba in Trinidad and Tobago, Guillermo Vázquez Moreno.
Port of Spain, 29 October.- The official of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) Yamil Martinez Marrero, in charge of the Eastern Caribbean countries in this institution, culminated today an intense and fruitful three days working visit to Trinidad and Tobago, which among its main goals were to update the movement of solidarity with Cuba, political parties and labor movements with a comprehensive socio-economic situation on Cuba in its current political context and exchange on possible initiatives in support of Cuba for the next year.
Ratifying the historical position of Barbados in support of the Cuban resolution "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States to Cuba" presented for 25 consecutive years before the General Assembly of the United Nations, Prime Minister Freundel Stuart included in his speech to the general debate of the world organization the requirement that such unilateral sanction to be lifted completely. Similar position has been expressed in the past by the Barbadian Foreign Minister Maxine McClean in different international forums.
Port of Spain, 28 October.- In the 56 anniversary of the physical disappearance of the “Hero of Yaguajay”, a broad representation of Cuban health collaborators in Port of Spain and members of the diplomatic mission in Trinidad and Tobago, paid tribute to Camilo Cienfuegos in a small boardwalk of the Trinitarian capital.
Some 30 Caribbean personalities of 11 Anglophone and Francophone countries, including the diaspora in the US and Canada, including prominent intellectuals, academics and artists from the region led by Dr. George Lamming are agreed to establish the Caribbean Chapter of the Network in Defense of Humanity, committed to the central axes of discussion that the network has promoted internationally.