“If the Cubans are not there, we may not be able to run the service,” he said. “I will prefer to lose my visa than to have 60 poor and working people die.”
And last week, Jamaican Foreign Minister Kamina Johnson Smith told reporters her government views Cuban medics as vital.
“Their presence here is of importance to our healthcare system,” she said. There are 400 Cuban doctors, nurses and medical technicians currently working in the country.
This week, #Barbados’s Prime Minister Mia Mottley gave a fiery address to parliament, calling the US stance “unfair and unjustified”.
“We could not get through the pandemic without the Cuban nurses and the Cuban doctors,” she said.
Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister, Keith Rowley, warned that US interference in #Caribbean healthcare decisions was unacceptable.
Caribbean leaders have hit back at a threat issued by the United States government to cancel visas for anyone working with or supporting Cuban medical facilities, citing allegations of forced labour and claiming these missions “enrich the Cuban regime”.
Cuban medical missions, which provide doctors, nurses and other medical staff as well as medical facilities, are critical to healthcare systems in the Caribbean.
Trump has named #PaoloZampolli, the man who introduced him to #Melania who also moved in #JefferyEpstein’s world & ran a charity with #GhislaineMaxwell in addition to being buds with infamous #Tether co-founder, friend of #SteveBannon, & former co-owner of maybe the most infamous and well publicized pedophile ring in Los Angeles history, #BrockPierce, to be America's “Special Envoy For Global Partnerships”.
A lot of people think Brock PIerce is basically “the gay #Epstein”. He certainly has the track record for it - history of involvement with pedophile rings, deep connections to #Israel (and maybe Russia - he’s besties with the people behind the #CambridgeAnalytica scandal), the whole works.
#Zampolli was also involved in a "cash for passports" scandal when he was an ambassador in the crypto #moneylaundering haven of #Dominica, a #Caribbean island which now counts #JustinSun's #TRX token as legal tender.
#HigherEducation #research #Caribbean
"The University of the West Indies (UWI) has launched a new website and research forum to expand public access to its extensive research data and projects."
https://barbadostoday.bb/2025/03/08/uwi-expands-research-accessibility-with-new-digital-hub/
