Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte headed to Guyana today where he is scheduled to participate in a top-level diplomatic conference between CARICOM foreign ministers and Cuban Minister of Foreign Relations, Bruno Rodriguez Parilla. The Sixth Annual CARICOM-Cuba Ministerial Meeting is being held in Georgetown on June fourteenth.
Mike Peyrefitte, Attorney General
Belize and Cuba want to find out more about their historical connections. And to do this, they signed a Memorandum of Understanding today that will see intensive research, cross cultural exchange and other collaborations of similar interests through workshops and projects over a four-year period. NICH and the Cuban Embassy in Belize held a short ceremony to establish the institutional cooperation agreement. Andrea Polanco was at today’s signing and tells us more in the following story.
Andrea Polanco, Reporting
The breeze was scarce as the students anxiously waited for Pedro Pablo Rodriguez to enter the art center. A different aura filled the building, and filled the beings that were seated and standing to hear his presentation. Despite the heat and congested room, the students knew that something big was about to happen. Upon his anticipated arrival, Pedro Pablo caused an outburst of applauses from an expecting congregation of students that were hungry for new ideas and philosophies.
The last history club encounter for the academic year was set, our special guest would be the internationally respected Cuban intellectual and revolutionary thinker Pedro Pablo Rodríguez who is visiting Belize on the invitation of Sapna Budhrani, president of NICH.
The Travelling Caribbean Film Showcase Belize edition has arrived. The National Institute of History and Culture / Nich. The National Library System, the University of Belize and the Embassy of Cuba invite you to the showcase opening night. next March 14, 2019, at 7:00 p.m., in the Jaguar Auditorium at #UB.