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Oct

06

2016

Press Release: Cuba reiterates its commitment to continue fighting transnational organized crime and the world drug problem

New York, 6 October 2016. At the Third Committee, on Agenda items 106: Prevention of Crime and Criminal Justice and 107: International Drug Control, the Deputy Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, Ambassador Ana Silvia Rodríguez Abascal underscored the magnitude reached and cost in social and humanitarian terms of drug trafficking nowadays and called upon its consideration in a comprehensive, balanced and multidisciplinary manner.

Oct

06

2016

Message of the Dr. Yaw Baah, Secretary General of the Trade Unions Congress (TUC)

02/10/2016

Comrade, I’m watching CNN news about Hurricane Matthew wich is expected to hit the eastern parts of Cuba in the next 24 to 48 hours. We can only hope that the monster storm passes without much harm to Cuba. I’m sure the Government of Cuba will do everything possible to protect the good people of Cuba. All the best!

Comrade Yaw Bah

Secretary General

Trade Union Congress (Ghana)

06/10/2016

Oct

06

2016

ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES/CUBA FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY, ISSUED A DECLARATION IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE 40 ANNIVERSARY OF THE CRIME OF BARBADOS

40th ANNIVERSARY OF TERRORIST CARNAGE IN CARIBBEAN

Thursday, October 6, 2016 marks the 40th anniversary of one of the biggest man-made human tragedy in the modern history of the Caribbean. Forty years ago, long before our peaceful region got accustomed to the dreaded word “terrorism” or the heinous deeds of terrorists, 68 young Caribbean citizens, mostly from Cuba (57) but also from Guyana (11), were among the 73 persons aboard a Cuban plane, CU 455, which was blown up just after it took off from Barbados.

Oct

06

2016

Barbadian Chancellor to lay a wreath for the victims of the terrorist attack.

Just before her speech on behalf of the Barbadian government, the Hon. Maxine McClean, Minister of Foreign Relations and Foreign Trade, laid a wreath at the monument erected to the victims of crime in Paynes Bay, accompanied by Camilo Rojo, representative of the Committee of the Families of Victims, who follow the Minister making similar action together with the rest of the Cuban delegation that attended the commemoration, led by Cuban Hero Fernando Gonzalez, vice president of ICAP and one of the infamous Case of the Cuban Five.

Oct

06

2016

Chancellor of Barbados calls for Peace and Justice 40 years after the crime

Barbadians have been told they must continue to demonstrate their abhorrence of terrorism and strive for peace. The call came as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Maxine McClean, addressed the commemorative ceremony for the 40th anniversary of the Cubana Air Disaster, which occurred on October 6, 1976, just off Barbados’ shores. Speaking at the site of the memorial monument at Paynes Bay, St.

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