Speech by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, at the presentation of draft resolution "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba"
I express our heartfelt solidarity with the sister Caribbean nation of Belize, which is suffering today from the ravages of a powerful hurricane.
Mr President:
Distinguished Permanent Representatives:
Distinguished Delegates:
More than 80% of the current Cuban population was born under the blockade.
Three decades have passed since this Assembly began to demand, every year, the cessation of that policy, classified as an act of genocide and which has the effect of a permanent pandemic, of a constant hurricane' and is universally rejected.
End the Criminal Blockade of Cuba
Statement of the Jamaica-Cuba Friendship Association (JCFA)
The Jamaica solidarity movement with Cuba joins with all people of good will, in demanding the unconditional removal of this criminal ‘knee off the neck’ of our sister country and allow it to chart its own inalienable and sovereign path of political, economic and social development.
Old Havana — delightful as ever
Kingston, 30 October 2022. Old Havana, the sentimental, historic centre of Caribbean island Cuba's capital city of Havana, continues to click.
Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982, everything may be found in the four-square-mile section of the city, one of 15 municipalities in Havana, if one has the discipline and energy to tour and explore.
'Miracle' eye care programme set for January resumption
Kingston, 30 October 2022 (Horace Helps from the Jamaica Observer). ALL being well, the 'Miracle Operation' Jamaica/Cuba Eye Care programme should be up and running again by the start of 2023.
The popular programme — sponsored, manned, and managed by the Government of Cuba — was suspended at the height of the novel cornavirus pandemic in 2021, and medical personnel returned to their homeland after years of treating thousands of Jamaicans with acute eye challenges.
End the blockade, Cuba pleads to the USA again
Kingston, 30 October 2022 (Horace Helps from the Jamaica Observer). IT'S like a tune from a vinyl record being played all over again but for Cuba, the lyrics that call for an end to the over-60-year blockade by the United States must continue to be heard.