Secretary General of ISA hosts farewell meeting with the Ambassador of Cuba to Jamaica.
Kingston, 8 October 2025. The Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), Mrs. Leticia Carvalho, held a farewell meeting with the Permanent Representative to this international organisation, Ambassador Fermín Quiñones Sánchez.
The Secretary-General acknowledged the work carried out by the Cuban delegation during the working sessions of the ISA Council and Assembly, as well as in the negotiation process for the Regulations for the Exploitation of Mineral Resources in Deep Waters.
Statement on the 49th Anniversary of the Terrorist Sabotage of Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 in Barbados
Together with our entire nation, we commemorate the tragic and painful 49th anniversary of 6 October 1976, the date on which a Cubana de Aviación aircraft carrying 73 passengers and crew members—57 Cubans, 11 Guyanese and 5 Koreans, most of them young people under the age of 20—was destroyed in mid-flight in one of the most brutal and ruthless terrorist acts ever committed in this hemisphere. All passengers and crew members died, including the 22 members of the youth fencing team.
A Pretext for Military Action Against Venezuela
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
As the Revolutionary Government warned on September 18, the actions of the United States aimed at justifying military aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela have continued to escalate.
Cuba present in the programme “We are neighbours: Diplomatic dialogues with the UWI, Mona”.
Kingston, 1 October 2025. The Ambassador of Cuba to Jamaica, Fermín Quiñones Sánchez, participated as a panellist in the programme ‘We are neighbours: diplomatic dialogues with the UWI, Mona’, organised by the Latin American and Caribbean Centre of the University of the West Indies (UWI).
Cuba's state mission in Jamaica reaffirms its support for the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Kingston, 30 September 2025. The members of the Embassy of Cuba in Jamaica reiterated with their signatures their support for the Declaration of the Cuban Revolutionary Government ‘It is imperative to prevent military aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela’.
They confirmed that ‘a government cannot and must not be allowed to resort to the threat or use of force in contravention of the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and international law. It is urgent to separate lies from reality.’