THE BAHAMAS, January 15, 2016.- This afternoon the Ambassador of Cuba in The Bahamas, Ismara Walter M. Vargas held a meeting at the headquarters of the Cuban Embassy with Mr. Edison L. Sumner, Chief Executive Director of Chamber of Commerce and Employers' Confederation of the Association of The Commonwealth of the Bahamas.

During the meeting, both sides reviewed the existing cooperation agreement between the Chambers of Commerce of Cuba and The Bahamas signed on July 17, 2015, and pledged to deepen economic-commercial ties between the two nations.

New Delhi, January 12 th 2016. The New Indian Express, published fragments of the intervention of H.E.  Mr. Oscar Martinez Cordovés, new Ambassador of Cuba designated to India during his participation in a symposium on “Left alternative”. This activity was at the 4th International Congress on Kerala Studies organized by the Indian Communist Party Marxist, from 9 to 10 January 2016 in that Indian state.

The General Secretary of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU), Sonia Gill, announced during a working meeting with representatives of the Barbadian Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Cuban Embassy that its 47th Annual General Assembly will be made this year in Havana, Cuba, under a collaboration agreement with the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT).

New York, 10 January 2017. Cuba considered today that stable and durable peace that allows the prevention of conflicts presupposes, above all, the recognition of and the unrestricted respect for the sovereign equality of States, the peaceful settlement of international disputes, the respect for political independence and for the political, economic, social and cultural system that the nations have freely decided for themselves and the rejection of the threat or use of force against another State.

Wellington 7 January 2016. – The Cuban community in New Zealand has been promoting the knowledge of Cuban culture through various projects that have matured over a decade, from which the development of initiatives related to music and dance can be highlighted.

Foreign Ministry representatives of both countries meet to discuss issues of common interest for the next chairmanship of the Association of Caribbean States (AEC) which will be occupied by Cuba in the period 2016-2017. To this end, the Director of the Caricom-Caribbean Unit, Rodney Taylor, Ambassador of Barbados to Caricom, Robert Morris, and the official Mandisa Downes, received the Cuban Ambassador Francisco Fernández Peña.

St. John’s January 4, 2016.  At the Cuban Embassy in Antigua and Barbuda multiple political personalities, diplomats, graduates of Cuba, residents and Cubans in that Caribbean nation, gathered to celebrate the 57th Anniversary of the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution. 

THE BAHAMAS, December 22th, 2015. - Today the Ambassador of Cuba to The Bahamas, Ismara M. Vargas Walter, visited several public hospitals in Freeport, the second most important island of the Bahamian Archipelago.

Just a day after signing the collaboration agreement on health between Cuba and The Bahamas, the Ambassador exchanged views with managers and medical staff of Rand Memorial Hospital as well as other public clinics which will welcome the Cuban medical brigade in a few weeks.

THE BAHAMAS, December 21th, 2015.- Cuba and The Bahamas reaffirmed their commitment to strengthen bilateral relations by signing a collaboration agreement on health. Dr. Herbert H. Brown, Director of the Public Hospitals Authority and Dr. Julio Castañer, Vice President of Business and Marketing for Cuban Medical Services signed the agreement which will allow the arrival of a Cuban medical brigade.

In a meeting with Mrs. De-Jane Gibbons, Assistant Representative of the Agency of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for the Caribbean, Cuban Ambassador to Barbados, Francisco Fernandez, expressed approval of his government to evaluate various triangular cooperation projects for the benefit of other Eastern Caribbean nations in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, early pregnancy and related, for which Cuba would bring their experiences and experts in the coming year 2016.