Minister Blackett to evaluate a Cuban technical assistance project on Alzheimer.
Minister of Social Development, Stephen Blackett, received the Cuban Ambassador, Francisco Fernandez, to evaluate ideas in a technical assistance project for which Barbados would be provided with a national plan to tackle Alzheimer's is based. Accompanied by the Permanent Secretary, the President of the Alzheimer Society of Barbados, Pamelia Brereton, and other specialists, the Minister received the document with the proposal that was prepared by Dr.
Minister Donville Inniss receives Cuban Ambassador to organize a business visit to Cuba.
The Minister of International Business, Donville Inniss, received in his office Cuban Ambassador to discuss the details of his planned visit to Cuba in May.
Women receive tribute in their International Day
The Pan Africanist Coalition of Organizations (PACO), the Association of Barbados-Cuba Friendship and the embassies of Cuba and Venezuela in Barbados paid tribute to the woman in a simple but a lot of content activity, on March 8. During an evening in which anecdotes abounded, acknowledgments, art, also gave an interesting exchange of experiences on the struggle for equality for women in different countries.
World Day of Prayer in Barbados devoted to Cuba
World Day of Prayer was devoted to Cuba by several churches of different religious affiliation on March 4th 2016. At least St Philip´s Parish Church, Speightstown Methodist Church and St John´s Church have done a Worship Service, which was prepared by the Cuban WDP Committee entitled “Receive children. Receive me”. To this purpose, the coordinators of these activities, Sisters Joyce Sealy, Peggy Wilkes and Marcia Miller, respectively, visited the Cuban Embassy in Barbados to get some information and national symbols for the contextualization of the service.
Prime Minister and Foreign Minister shared activities of the 50th Anniversary of Independence with the Diplomatic Corps.
The Right Honorable Prime Minister, Freundel J. Stuart, and the Honorable Senator Maxine McClean, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, accompanied by other senior government officials and the Barbadian Foreign Ministry made a breakfast meeting with the diplomatic corps in the country in Accra Beach Hotel, located precisely in the constituency that the Prime Minister represents in Parliament. During the activity was shared with diplomatic representatives of different countries planned events to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Independence in the coming months.