Cuba sets forth social and demographic achievements, despite the blockade imposed during more than six decades
NEW YORK, April 4, 2017.- During the 50th session of the UN Commission on Population and Development, the Director of Population at Cuba’s National Statistics and Information Office (ONEI), Juan Carlos Alfonso Fraga, proved today that Cuba is a demographically developed country with indicators that stand for its very advanced demographic transition.
Ministry of Foreign Relations Statement
The Organization of American States (OAS) now confronting Venezuela is the same organization that has endorsed aggression and military intervention, one which has consistently maintained silence in the face of serious violations of democracy and human rights across the hemisphere.
Solidarity Movement with Cuba in Trinidad and Tobago sets out work program for 2017 in support of Cuba and its Revolution.
Port of Spain, March 23 .- The president of "Friends of Cuba in Trinidad and Tobago" Clyde Callender held a cordial meeting with Guillermo Vázquez Moreno, Cuban ambassador and Alex González García, first secretary of the Embassy, in the which was exchanged ideas and information on several of the activities that the solidarity movement with Cuba organizes for the current year.
Cuban connection
The cultural exchange with Cuba and Success Laventille Secondary School has had numerous benefits, not only for the school, but for the students and nation as a whole.
It all began when the school became involved in a pilot music literacy programme supported by Pete the Panstick software where the children leaned to play the tenor pan as well as business and entrepreneur skills.
Success Laventille principal Hamida Baksh developed a relationship with Sanch Electronix Ltd, which provided the software, and she approached managing director Simeon Sandiford who had Cuban business connections
Dance - the education connection
The drums of the Yoruba- speaking Okun peoples of Nigeria struck familiar chords throughout an almost capacity foot tapping Napa rima Bowl auditorium on March 10 when the world famous El Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba opened the second instalment of its three-show visit.
By then, the well-travelled Cuban dance and music troupe had already left a Port - of- Spain audience in need of more, with a few Naparima Bowl patrons tes tifying to having made a return trip to view the show one last time. It is not known who else would have tailed them to the Shaw Park Complex in Tobago two evenings after.