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.
Prime Minister of Barbados demands at the UN the total lifting of the blockade against Cuba.
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.
Launched in Barbados the Caribbean Chapter of the Network in Defense of Humanity.
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.
Caribbean Chapter of the Network in Defense of Humanity issued its first statement.
Dr. Tennyson Joseph, a prominent academic and columnist, announced the first Declaration of the newly formed Caribbean Chapter of the Network in Defense of Humanity, resulting from a substantial discussion led by eminent speakers from a dozen Caribbean countries gathered for this purpose in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Caribbean Panelists underscore the importance of the Caribbean Chapter of the Network in Defense of Humanity.
Eight illustrious personalities of culture, art and the Caribbean political activism formed a panel to conduct the debate before an audience of a hundred people who attended the Academic Forum under the title "The ongoing efforts of the imperialist powers to encourage separation, division and discord in the Caribbean: the case of Cuba, Jamaica, Granada, the French colonies, Guyana and Venezuela ". This was the central activity that marked the emergence of the Caribbean Chapter of the Network in Defense of Humanity, in Barbados.