At the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (MINCEX), the ceremony was held to welcome the thirteenth shipment of humanitarian aid from Mexico, accompanied on this occasion by donations from the member countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
At the headquarters of the Cuban Embassy in Basseterre, the ceremony for the granting of scholarships to eleven young people from this Federation took place on Wednesday afternoon. They will soon embark on a new path in their student life, on Cuban soil.
It was an endearing meeting, without a doubt, a space in which each of those present came out more convinced of the future they desire for themselves.
On Thursday afternoon the ceremony of awarding undergraduate scholarships for five local young people, in the careers of Architecture, Medicine and Health Technology, was held at the headquarters of the Embassy of Cuba,In addition to the Cuban diplomatic staff, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Lisa Pistana, the president of the Association of Graduates in Cuba, Hollis Prentice, Dr Erick Brown, an Engineer who graduated in Cuba, and relatives of the students were present at the event.
As usual, every year the Embassy of Cuba in St. Kitts and Nevis organizes a meeting with the young people of this Federation who benefitted from the Scholarship program that the Cuban government grants as part of the cooperation agreements between Cuba and CARICOM member countries. On this occasion, four medical doctors who graduated in Cuba will soon begin a new period of studies on the island. They will study the medical specialties of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Geriatrics and Gerontology, Gastroenterology and Radiology, starting in February.
Larry Vaughan, Head of the Regional Integration and Diaspora Unit in Saint Kitts and Nevis, paid a courtesy visit to the Ambassador of Cuba to this Federation, David Rivero Pérez, who extended warm congratulations for his recent accreditation as Ambassador to CARICOM, on March 13.
We received at the Cuban Embassy in Saint Kitts and Nevis, the eight young people who will benefit this year from the government cooperation program in education, which the Greater Antilles offers to CARICOM countries and many others from the rest of the world.
Kentisha Daley is a young doctor from the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis who graduated from medicine in Cuba. She returns to Cuba to carry out postgraduate studies, as part of the cooperation agreements between the Antillean island and CARICOM countries.
The Seventh Summit of Heads of State and Government of the CARICOM-Cuba mechanism will be held on December 8 this year. This is an important forum whose efforts are focused on the strengthening of relations between the Caribbean Community and Cuba and finding solutions to the most pressing problems affecting the region, such as climate change effects and development challenges.
These Summits are being held every three years since 2002, on alternate venues between our country and CARICOM States.
Port of Spain, August 9.- With the presence of the Trinidadian Ministers of Education and State in the Ministry of Education, Anthony Garcia and Francis Lovell, respectively, took place today at the headquarters of the Ministry of Education the official ceremony of granting of medical scholarships offered by the Government of Cuba to young Trinidadians as part of the Cuba-CARICOM agreements. On this occasion, three young people benefited from this cooperation program.
December 31st, 2018, Saint Lucia. The new Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba in Saint Lucia, Alejandro Simancas Marin presented his Letters of Credence to the Governor General, Sir Emmanuel Neville Cenac at his official residence, “Government House”.
