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Full Text | ‘Untenable’…Jamaica says Cuban medical programme ended over labour, legal concerns
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Sheryl Lee Ralph Would Like to Know If the US Will Help Jamaica, as the Cuban Medical Program Is Terminated
Sheryl Lee Ralph Would Like to Know If the US Will Help Jamaica, as the Cuban Medical Program Is Terminated Jamaican American actress Sheryl Lee Ralph, who is the goddaughter of former Prime Minister PJ Patterson, has joined the conversation surrounding the discontinuation of the Cuban Medical Brigade programme in Jamaica. “Will America now send the doctors so badly needed in Jamaica?” Ralph queried on Friday on X in response to a Jamaica Gleane…
Kingston – Following pressure from Washington, Jamaica has ended its medical cooperation program with Cuba after almost 50 years. Jamaican Health Minister Christopher Tufton stated that talks with Havana regarding changes to the program had not progressed. For Cuba's communist government, the medical missions abroad, which...
Cuba Says It Regrets Jamaica’s Decision To End Medical Cooperation Amid U.S. Pressure
By NAN NEWS EDITOR News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Mon. Mar. 9, 2026: Cuba has expressed deep regret over Jamaica’s decision to terminate decades-long medical cooperation between the two Caribbean nations, saying the move reflects pressure from the United States rather than the health needs of the region. FLASHBACK – In 2010, 140 members of the Henry Reeve International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disasters and Serious Epidemics left for J…
Jamaica ends Cuba medical program over labour law violations
The Jamaican government recently terminated its long-standing medical exchange program with Cuba due to significant legal and ethical concerns regarding the treatment of visiting staff. Official reviews revealed that Cuban professionals did not have possession of their travel documents and were not receiving their salaries directly, as payments were instead funneled to the Cuban government. […]
Latin American Summary, March 8, 2026. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba reports that, on March 4, the Jamaican Foreign Ministry informed our Embassy in that country of the unilateral decision of its government to rescind the health cooperation agreement that has linked both nations [...] La entrada Cuba. Regrets the decision of the government of Jamaica to cease medical cooperation yielding to U.S. pressures was first publ…
Full Text | ‘Untenable’…Jamaica says Cuban medical programme ended over labour, legal concerns
The Government has moved to shed more light on the reasons it discontinued the Cuba–Jamaica medical programme, saying it wanted an arrangement that was in keeping with local and international law. In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said chief among the Government’s concerns was that Cuban medical professionals were not in possession of their own passports and that, outside of overtime payments, their salaries were not paid directly …
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