Cuban Ambassador payed a courtesy call to CARICOM´s Representative
Ambassador Gail Mathurin, Director General Office of Trade Negotiations of CARICOM, resident in Barbados, gave an interview courtesy the Cuban Ambassador, Francisco Fernandez, serving to exchange on the good state of bilateral relations of the island with the Community. They reviewed the existing Agreement on Trade and Cooperation, which was updated in recent months allowing free access to the Cuban market of 297 products, from the request of member countries of the block.
Solidarity with Palestine in Barbados.
On the 68th Anniversary of the partition of Palestine by the United Nations, the "Caribbean against Apartheid in Palestine" [CAAP] group held a public meeting and showed a film at the Venezuelan Cultural Institute in Hastings, Barbados. In this activity, chaired by Peter Ashan, President of the CAAP, activists urged Barbados to follow the example of most member nations of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and recognize the State of Palestine. Among the attendees were the ambassadors of Cuba and Venezuela accredited in the country.
Minister Darcy Boyce meets Cuban Ambassador.
Mr. Darcy Boyce, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, accompanied by the Permanent Secretary for Energy, Mr. Jehu Wiltshire, received in his office Cuban Ambassador to Barbados, Francisco Fernandez, to exchange about possible Cuban cooperation energy with the Caribbean region and in particular on the newly created Caribbean Center for Energy and Energy Efficiency (CCREEE).
Declaration of the National Meeting 2015 ACRB "Martyrs of Barbados".
National Meeting of Cuban Residents
Sunday November 8, 2015
Declaration of the National Meeting 2015
ACRB "Martyrs of Barbados".
The Association of Cuban Residents "Martyrs of Barbados", concluding his National Meeting 2015 in the city of City of Bridgetown, Barbados, on the 8th day of November, accompanied by by representatives of the different organizations members of the Movement of Solidarity Barbados-Cuba and Barbadian professional graduates in Cuba, declare:
Barbadian companies attended to the International Trade Fair of Havana.
Five Barbadian companies and two entities resident in Barbados were represented at the 33rd edition of the International Trade Fair of Havana (FIHAV-2015), which this time was attended by 71 countries and 50 chambers of commerce and institutions promoting trade and investment in Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, Canada, Asia, Africa, and for the first time, the United States of America.