CARICOM reaffirms imperative for the prohibition of nuclear weapons
Guyana, Georgetwon, April 4, 2025 Assistant Secretary-General Elizabeth Solomon speaking at the regional workshop for state signatories in Latin America and the Caribbean under the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) Framework on 3 April in Jamaica.(Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) – The Caribbean Community has reaffirmed the urgent necessity of prohibiting nuclear weapons testing, use, and proliferation, emphasising that this imperative has never been more pressing than in this century.Speaking at a regional works
Two more Guyanese medical specialists complete training in Cuba
Guyana, Georgetown, april 2, 2025. Guyana’s healthcare sector has been further strengthened with the addition of two newly trained medical specialists who have successfully completed their post-graduate specialisations in Cuba.
Their achievements follow that of Dr. Cymoné Nedd, the first Guyanese specialist for 2024, who has already returned home and is attached to the Ministry of Health.
Among the latest specialists is Dr. Vanessa Singh, who qualified as a Radiologist at the University of Medical Sciences of Santiago de Cuba in December 2024.
Open Letter to CARICOM on US visa restriction policy.
Open Letter to CARICOM on US visa restriction policy on government officials whose countries engage Cuban medical professionals
Statement on Cuba
Guyana, Georgetown february 28 2025. The Forty-Eighth Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community is gravely concerned with the continuing deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Cuba resulting from the embargo imposed on the people and Government of Cuba by the Government of the United States of America.
The Conference renews its call for the lifting of the unilateral financial, economic, and trade embargo and for Cuba to be immediately removed from the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism.
Cuban artisan concludes program of activities in Guyana.
Guyana, Georgetown february 25, 2025. From February 10 to 21, 2025, the artisan representative of the Cuban Fund of Cultural Goods, Niurka Cabañas Calvo, offered training workshops to Guyanese artisans, through the invitation of the Commission on Women's Affairs and Gender Equality of Guyana. As part of the program, the Cuban artisan offered collage and paper mache workshops, visited the University of Guyana, the Special Needs School “David Rose”, where she exchanged about the development of crafts for children, and recognitions were given to the participants.