Cuban health care: charity begins at home
Kingston, 22 December 2019. Against a backdrop of a re-election campaign for a second-term as US president and a desperate attempt to appease the anti-communist Florida republican cabal led by Marco Rubio, who were instrumental in securing his election victory in 2016, the administration of Donald Trump is outdoing itself in trying to sully the reputation of one of the main pillars of the Cuban revolution, which is its internationalism and particularly as it relates to health care.
Lift the economic blockade of Cuba says Jamaica-Cuba Friendship Association
KINGSTON, December 17, 2019 - The Jamaica Cuba Friendship Association (JCFA) has called on the administration of the United States of America to unconditionally lift what it says is "the criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade of [Cuba] our sister country, whose anachronistic retention, is a bare-faced and arrogant repudiation of international law, a systematic violation of the Human Rights of the Cuban People and an act of Genocide under the 1948 United Nations ‘Convention on the Punishment of the Crime of Genocide."
Inaugurated Joint Center of Studies between the University of Havana and the UWI
La Habana, Cuba, 11 December 2019. In the context of the XIII International Conference on Caribbean Studies, celebrated between December 9th and 11th in the University of Havana (UH), the Joint Center for the Sustainable Development of the Caribbean was officially inaugurated.
The ceremony was chaired by Dr. Miriam Nicado, chancellor of the UH, and by Dr. Hilary Beckles, vice chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI).
Vice chancellor of the UWI gives a keynote lecture at the University of Havana
Havana, Cuba, 11 December 2019. In the context of the final day of the XIII International Conference of the Chair of Caribbean Studies "Norman Girvan" of the University of Havana, Dr. Hilary Beckles, vice chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI), gave a keynote lecture at the "Aula Magna" of the Cuban higher education centre.
The CARICOM-Cuba Day is celebrated in Jamaica
Kingston, Jamaica, 9 December 2019. This afternoon, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica, along with the Embassy of Cuba in the Caribbean nation, hosted a ceremony to celebrate CARICOM-Cuba Day.
The event was chaired by the Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Ministry Marcia Gilbert-Roberts, and was attended by the Ambassador of Cuba in Jamaica, a representation of the diplomatic corps accredited in the country, the Jamaica-Cuba Friendship Association and students of the "Jose Marti" Institute.