Announcement of the Cuba-Jamaica Bilateral Scholarship Programme for the academic year 2023
Kingston, 12 September, 2022. The process of awarding scholarships to Jamaican students for the 2023 school year began with the publication on the website of the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service of Jamaica of the call for applications for the Bilateral Scholarship Programme.
The deadline for applications is 14 October.
Interested parties can find the requirements, specialisations and application form at the following link: https://mof.gov.jm/scholarships/
Second part of the Jamaican government's donation departs for Cuba
Kingston, 8 September 2022. The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica, the Honourable Kamina Johnson-Smith and the Ambassadorof Cuba to Jamaica Fermin Quiñones Sanchez, last night saw off the Coast Guard vessel HMJS Nanny of the Maroons, which was on its way to Santiago de Cuba with a second shipment of medicines and medical supplies as part of the Jamaican government's donation in response to the devastation caused by the fire at the Matanzas supertanker base, both valued at J$20 million.
Invitation to the First Congress of the Tenth and Improvised Verse
The Centro Iberoamericano de la Décima y el Verso Improvisado (CIDVI), invites poets-repentistas, writers, musicians, cultural promoters and researchers from Ibero-America to participate in the First Ibero-American Congress of the Décima and Improvised Verse, which will take place on 28, 29 and 30 September 2022 in Havana, Cuba.
Cuban Education Brigade in Jamaica is renewed
Kingston, 29 August 2022. The Ambassador of Cuba in Jamaica, Fermín Quiñones Sánchez, together with officials of the diplomatic mission and officials of the Ministry of Education and Youth of Jamaica, received this morning 12 new members of the Cuban Educational Brigade in Jamaica who arrived at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, to join the new school year in September.
Bridges of Love Day in Jamaica: "Blockade No"
Kingston, 28 August 2022. Members of the Cuban State Mission in Jamaica, Cuban residents, Jamaican friends and those from other parts of the world who make up the Cuba Solidarity Movement and representatives of political organisations and social movements converged on the morning of 28 August in front of the monument dedicated to Major General Antonio Maceo, located in Jamaica's National Heroes Park, to demand an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the US government against Cuba.