Dec 16
December 8 2012 marks the fortieth anniversary of the day when four independent states of the Commonwealth Caribbean, in defiance of the hemispheric hegemon, opened full diplomatic relations with Cuba. Today all of CARICOM maintains close ties of friendship and cooperation with the sister republic, which continues to maintain its revolutionary project in spite of a US-imposed blockade which has been repeatedly condemned by the overwhelming majority of the world community. A selection of items from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Cuba commemorating the 40th anniversary.
Nov 27
Cuba’s direct, extensive, critical and decisive role in the struggle against the apartheid regime in South Africa is little known in the West. As 2012 marches into 2013, we are in the midst of the 25th anniversary of a series of military engagements that profoundly altered the history of southern Africa…
Nov 18
Wendy Campbell is past Head Girl at Garvey Maceo High School in Jamaica and a final-year medical student in Cuba. In this article she speaks of her experience in Cuba over the past six years.
“As someone who benefited from the exposure to Cuba’s medical system, I would like to give back to Jamaica; I would like to use the knowledge that I have gained in Cuba to implement some of the programmes than can be implemented, especially the system of primary health care.”
Sep 08
Cuba, with the highest number of doctors per capita in the world, and the lowest infant mortality in all the Americas, is currently training over 24,000 doctors from 116 counties free of charge in its medical schools; and has medical training programmes in, eight other countries . Salim Lamrani teaches at the Sorbonne in Paris.
SINCE the triumph of the Revolution in 1959, the development of Cuban medicine has been a government priority. The country is now a point of reference internationally, with Cuba, in fact, currently having the highest number of doctors per inhabitant in the world…
Read Scholarships to the Daughters of Nanny and to the Sons of Cudjoe and of Tacky, Dellie-Ann Antoinette Green
Sep 08
‘ Sport Internationalism’ is little known dimension of Cuba’s international mission of solidarity.
From the beginning of the London Olympic Games of 2012 to one day after the closing ceremonies, Cuba provided coverage 24 hours every day in the country, ´s language, Spanish. What is more, the coverage was entirely free of commercials…
Jun 20
Vote of Thanks delivered on behalf of Jamaican Medical Scholarship Awardees (2012) at The Embassy of The Republic of Cuba in Jamaica, June 8, 2012. Reprinted from YESCuba Newsletter of the Jamaican Youth and Elders in Solidarity with Cuba, June 9, 2012
It is, indeed, a signal honour for me to have been invited to move this vote of thanks. “Thank you” could be said as simply and as easily as this: “THANK YOU.” But might this not be rude? Would this not be an instance of brevity being most inappropriate? On the other hand, I could choose to be boring and insensitive to this wonderful audience and deliver an hour-long diatribe..
Jun 20
Keith Ellis, a Jamaican, is Professor Emeritus of Spanish American Literature at the University of Toronto. This article first appeared in YESCuba, the newsletter of Jamaican Youth and Elders in Solidarity with Cuba.
Between August of 1883 and May of the following year, José Martí, then thirty years old, published a series of essays on scientific education. In them he formulated and anticipated a policy of education for Cuba. Among the precepts that he announced in them were the following: “To be good is the only way to be happy;” “To be cultured and educated is the only way to be free;” …
