Cuban doctors arrive at the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, June 8, 2020, after traveling to Italy to help with the COVID-19 emergency response
CARIBBEAN leaders have condemned a new US policy that aims to restrict the activities of Cuban medical missions.
They insist that hundreds of Cuban medical staff do essential work across the Caribbean.
Guyana’s Foreign Minister Hugh Todd told reporters on Tuesday that foreign ministers from 15-member Caribbean trade bloc Caricom had recently met US special envoy for Latin America Mauricio Claver-Carone in Washington after the US threatened to restrict the visas of those involved with Cuban missions.
As the Alliance of Sahel States and southern African nations advance pan-African goals, the African Union must listen and learn rather than parroting the Western line on these positive developments, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Money makers already exploit cleaning and catering contracts while the military-industrial complex diverts billions from health to warfare — but Bevan’s vision will endure as long as people fight for it, writes ROGER MCKENZIE
