Caribbean Chapter of the International Network to approve a Plan of Action in Barbados.
Prominent intellectuals, academics, artists and social activists of seven islands that make up the Caribbean Chapter of the International Network In Defence of Humanity held a fruitful meeting during their participation in the program of activities commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Crime of Barbados in 1976. After starring in the launch of the global campaign for the UN to declare the 6 October as the International Day against Terrorism, its annual meeting focused on developing an action plan to carry out the campaign.
President of the Barbadian Parliament welcomes the Cuban delegation.
The Honorable Michael Carrington, Speaker of the House of the Barbadian Parliament, received in his office the Cuban delegation attending the 40th Anniversary commemoration of the terrorist attack off the west coasts of this island in October 1976.
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.
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.
Statement by Prime Minister Freundel Stuart on 40th Anniversary of the crime
Forty years ago today, on October 6, 1976, Cubana Airlines flight CU 455 succumbed to a proven act of terrorism, with the loss of life of Cuban nationals, Guyanese nationals and nationals of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Terrorism in its modern form has been therefore known in the English-speaking Caribbean for at least 40 years and its impact still reverberates with us today. The arrests in Trinidad and Tobago following the act and the trial in Venezuela, pointed directly to the perpetrators, who have never been punished in a manner consistent with their horrible crime.