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Cuban COVID team to stay another six months
Article by April 8, 2021
A year after arriving here to join the frontline battle against the coronavirus, the Cuban medical team is to stay here until early October, at the request of Barbadian authorities.
To seal the deal, representatives of the Ministry of Health and the government in Havana, Wednesday signed yet another six-month extension agreement – the third – at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Culloden Road.
In this Cuban embassy photo, Juliette Bynoe-Sutherland (second from left), executive chairman of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, signed the agreement with Cuba’s Ambassador Sergio Pastrana, flanked by Barbados’ Ambassador to CARICOM David Comissiong (left) and Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George (right).
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Clyde Jones, a leading photojournalist in New York whose camera took him to most landmarks in New York and key economic diplomatic and social events and institutions in the United States and Barbados died in a New York hospital today after a prolonged illness.
Jones was in his late 80s.
Thelma, his wife of more than 50 years said: “He passed away in Mount Sinai Hospital in Brooklyn. Clyde was truly an outstanding person who loved his country and is going to be mourned by many people knew and admired him. He is going to be missed.”
Christopher Bennett, Jones’ 20-year-old son, a Brooklyn student, said his father was “very supportive of his dreams and aspirations and “was always there for me”.
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The second contingent of Cuban medical professionals are out of quarantine and ready to get to work.
Yesterday, the group of 15 from the Henry Reeve Brigade visited the Cubana Monument in Paynes Bay, St James, to honour those lost during that 1976 air tragedy and pledged their commitment to helping Barbados fight against COVID-19.
They were joined by Barbados’ Ambassador to CARICOM David Comissiong and Cuban ambassador Sergio Jorge Pastrana, who urged Barbadians to adhere to the protocols which would help the doctors and laboratory technicians do their job more efficiently. (CA)
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