EDITORIAL: Strengthening CARICOM/Cuba cooperation

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - n a pace-setting move the Guyana Parliament last week unanimously approved a motion to record for posterity the “special relationship” that country shares with Cuba.
As Guyana’s Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, noted, the relationship with Cuba dates back to more than four decades when Guyana was still a British colony, and prior to the 1962 United States-imposed economic and financial embargo against the western Caribbean nation.
The motion that forged government-opposition unity in a parliament where rancour had been the norm over the past year, coincides with the observance started last month, including activities in Barbados, of the 40th anniversary of CARICOM-Cuba diplomatic relations.