Port of Spain, 9 November, 2015.- From 2nd to 7th of November, hosted by the Office of the Principal of the University of the West Indies and the Institute of International Relations at the university, a group of Cuban professors and researchers visited Trinidad and Tobago academic exchanges related to Cuba. The delegation was headed by Antonio Romero, president of the Chair of "Norman Girvan" Caribbean Studies at the University of Havana.

Port of Spain, November 8, 2015. The Seminar entitled “The Caribbean, Cuba and the challenges for Regional Development”, jointly coordinated with the Institute of International Relations (IIR of the University of the West Indies and the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba. Included in this seminar, were presentations delivered by several noted academics, including Dr. Antonio F. Romero Gomez, Chair of “Norman Girvan” Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Havana (UH); Dr Marlen Sánchez, Senior Researcher at the Centre for International Economic Studies, UH; Milagros Elena Martínez Reinosa, Assistant Researcher and Associate Professor, UH; Dr Omar E. Pérez, Senior Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of the Cuban Economy, UH and Santiago Pérez Benítez, Researcher at the Research Centre for International Policy, UH.

National Meeting of Cuban Residents
Sunday November 8, 2015

Declaration of the National Meeting 2015
ACRB "Martyrs of Barbados".

The Association of Cuban Residents "Martyrs of Barbados", concluding his National Meeting 2015 in the city of City of Bridgetown, Barbados, on the 8th day of November, accompanied by by representatives of the different organizations members of the Movement of Solidarity  Barbados-Cuba and Barbadian professional graduates in Cuba, declare:

Five Barbadian companies and two entities resident in Barbados were represented at the 33rd edition of the International Trade Fair of Havana (FIHAV-2015), which this time was attended by 71 countries and 50 chambers of commerce and institutions promoting trade and investment in Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, Canada, Asia, Africa, and for the first time, the United States of America.

Port of Spain, October 30. Secretary General Alfonso Múnera received a courtesy visit from the Ambassador Isabel Allende, Rector of the Raul Roa Garcia Higher Institute of International Relations, accompanied by the Ambassador of Cuba in Trinidad and Tobago, Guillermo Vázquez Moreno.

Port of Spain, 29 October.- The official of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) Yamil Martinez Marrero, in charge of the Eastern Caribbean countries in this institution, culminated today an intense and fruitful three days working visit to Trinidad and Tobago, which among its main goals were to update the movement of solidarity with Cuba, political parties and labor movements with a comprehensive socio-economic situation on Cuba in its current political context and exchange on possible initiatives in support of Cuba for the next year.

Port of Spain, 28 October.- In the 56 anniversary of the physical disappearance of the “Hero of Yaguajay”, a broad representation of Cuban health collaborators in Port of Spain and members of the diplomatic mission in Trinidad and Tobago, paid tribute to Camilo Cienfuegos in a small boardwalk of the Trinitarian capital.

Ratifying the historical position of Barbados in support of the Cuban resolution "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States to Cuba" presented for 25 consecutive years before the General Assembly of the United Nations, Prime Minister Freundel Stuart included in his speech to the general debate of the world organization the requirement that such unilateral sanction to be lifted completely. Similar position has been expressed in the past by the Barbadian Foreign Minister Maxine McClean in different international forums.

A large group of Barbadians activists who excelled in the persistent struggle carried out for 16 years until the release of the antiterrorist fighters, known internationally as the case of the Cuban Five, received from the Ambassador of Cuba a symbolic Certificate of Recognition signed by the Cuban Five.

The representation of intellectuals and artists who make up the Cuban Chapter the Network in Defense of Humanity was symbolically invited to testify constituted this new Caribbean chapter, which becomes an important reference point for discussion of the issues at the center of debate of ideas and challenges which humanity is facing in this particular region as well as in the rest of the world.