The President of the Association of Friendship Barbados-Cuba, David Denny. led a meeting held during a working lunch offered at the Pom-Marine Hotel to the delegation of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) who visited Barbados from 26 and May 30, 2016 composed by his First Vice President Elio Gamez and the director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Robert Hamilton. Representatives of all member organizations of the Movement of Solidarity with Cuba were in attendance in the friendly meeting, which are the President of the Movement Clement Payne, members of the Israel Lovell Foundation, the board of the Pan Africanist Coalition of Organizations, as well as of the NUPW.
The senior official of ICAP thanked the solidarity of the Barbadian people, including the recent visit of members of the Association of Friendship and the main leaders of the NUPW to the ICAP´s headquarters, as part of their trip to Cuba to participate in May Day celebrations, invited by the Workers' Central Union of Cuba, and the International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba organized by the ICAP on that date every year. Similarly, the main events to be held in the second half of the year were reviewed, which were supported by all participants.
The President of the Friendship Association, David Denny, pledged his support and that of other colleagues to VIII Continental Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba to be held in late July in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The NUPW is also evaluating its participation in such continental event.
Representatives of all organizations committed to participate in activities commemorating the 40th anniversary of the terrorist sabotage against the Cubana airplane perpetrated by groups of the cuban-american mafia resident in Miami in October 1976 on the Barbadian territory. For this purpose, the Clement Payne Movement has announced that it will take expenses for the invitation of a member of the Cuban Five Heroes, a relative of the victims of terrorism and the American actor Danny Glover, personality heavily involved in the battle for the liberation of the Cuban Five.