Cuba Scholarships Granting Ceremony Held in Jamaica.
JAMAICA, 13 June 2011.- Last Friday, June 10, the Embassy of Cuba was the venue for the ceremony in which it was officially informed that five Jamaican youngsters had been selected to take medical studies, free of charge, in the Greater island in the Antilles.
This emotive ceremony was presided over by Ambassador Yuri Gala Lopez, Head of the Cuban State Mission in this sister nation. On the Cuban side, also present were, Yaima Gonzalez, Third Secretary with responsibility for the Cooperation Unit, and the Heads of the Cuban Educational and Medical Brigades, respectively.
On the Jamaican side, some guests attended, including: Mrs. Halcyan Gallimore, Director of Scholarships and Assistance Unit in the Ministry of Finance, Mrs. Marsha Coore-Lobban, Acting Director, Caribbean and Americas Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Mrs. Pamela Redwood, a member from the Cuba-Jamaica Solidarity Movement, as well as Dr. Neville Graham and Mrs. Angela Brown-Burke, on behalf of the graduates from Cuban universities.
Within the framework of this ceremony, the new scholarship holders were presented with the relevant documents, while an exchange of views with them and their respective relatives, was held.
In his address to the attendees, Ambassador Gala Lopez highlighted that despite of the fact that Cuba has been under an unjust blockade imposed by the US, it has continue to offer cooperation to other developing countries.
The Jamaica Information Service (JIS) gave coverage to this important function. (Cubaminrex-Embacuba Jamaica)
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