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Cuban Teachers Conclude their Mission in Jamaica

CUBA, July 7, 2010.- - The official farewell for Cuban teachers from the island’s Education Brigade in Jamaica, who conclude their mission in July, took place at the Cuban embassy in Kingston.

Also held was a scientific meeting, during which the teaching aids used by Cuban voluntary workers to teach Spanish in Jamaican schools were on display, the Cuban Foreign Ministry’s Web site reports.

The Cuban ambassador to Kingston, Yuri Gala, presided over the meeting, while Jamaica was represented by Viris Clarke Ellis, Coordinator of the Cuba Program of her country’ Education Ministry.

Attending the meeting were the 43 teachers making up the Education contingent, students of the Cuban voluntary workers, Jamaican professors and members of the diplomatic mission.

Clarke Ellis, on behalf of the Jamaican Education Ministry, highlighted the important work carried out by Cuban teachers in his country, and thanked the Cuban government for this aid.

Gala underlined the achievements obtained by Cuba in the field of education, in spite of the unfair and criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on the largest island in the Antilles by the United States for five decades now.

He pointed put that over 300 Jamaican youngsters are currently studying university courses in Cuba and thanked the Jamaican Education Ministry for the support offered in the implementation of this cooperation project, which is an important part of bilateral relations. (Cubaminrex - ACN).