Guyana, Georgetown, December 10, 2024. CARICOM Secretary-General Dr Carla Barnett visited the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Havana, Cuba .
During her visit, Dr Barnett met the Director of ELAM, Dr. Yolanda Muro Valle and CARICOM students from St Vincent and Grenadines, Jamaica and Antigua and Barbuda.
The Caribbean Community (Caricom) and Cuba are celebrating 51 years since the establishment of their ties, further strengthened by the solidarity cooperation of the largest of the Antilles and the support of the bloc in the international arena.
Both parties celebrate the decision of Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Guyana and Jamaica to establish diplomatic relations with Havana in 1972 and break with the hostile isolation faced by that government after its revolutionary triumph in 1959.
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.
Havana, December 4th, 2020. 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.
(Source: Cubaminrex)
47 years of friendship between Cuba and CARICOM. The President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, highlighted today the sovereign and dignified policy of the Caribbean nations with respect to Cuba, on the 47th anniversary of those links. "Today, December 8, we celebrated 47 years of Cuba- CARICOM relations. The small nations of the Caribbean, with their sovereign and dignified policy, pioneered opening their arms to Cuba when the empire demanded isolation," said the Cuban President on Twitter.