Cuba News
Do not expect the resignation of Cuba President Fidel Castro to result in any major changes in that nation’s relationship with Trinidad and Tobago, the Foreign Affairs Ministry says.
And Dr Mark Kirton, a senior lecturer of Latin American Studies at the University of the West Indies’ St Augustine campus, said yesterday that there will be continuity in the longstanding relationship between both countries.
“I don’t see it as a major shift,” Kirton said.
Castro resigned as Cuba’s president due to health reasons yesterday, after having been in power for almost 50 years. During that time, this country has enjoyed very good diplomatic relations with the region’s only communist state.
The Foreign Affairs Ministry, in a statement yesterday, said the Government expects a continued good relationship with Cuba, which is due to establish two large scale commercial farms in this country and has been providing medical personnel to help staff the nation’s hospitals.
“The ministry wishes to recognise and salute the 49 years of Dr Castro’s leadership to the people of the Republic of Cuba. The change in Cuban leadership will in no way affect the cordiality or commitment of this Government’s relationship with Cuba, and the strengthening of relations at the bilateral level,” the ministry said.
Prime Minister Patrick Manning underwent a pacemaker procedure in Cuba in 2005 and has made regular visits their for check-ups since. On his last visit, Manning met with Castro.
In 1998, Manning flew to Cuba to undergo valve replacement surgery for his heart when he was the Opposition Leader.
Contacted yesterday, the Prime Minister’s Office said Manning was aware of Castro’s resignation, but had no official position to offer.
Kirton, in an interview with the Express, said that as long as Castro is alive, there will be little change in its policies, including that regarding Trinidad and Tobago.
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March 15th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Our government always tells us the truth and never obfuscates.Politicians never ignore the will of the people and act in their own best interests.Everything will be fine as long as we don’t ask hard questions.
March 15th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
LOL whatever “uncovered it” http://stj911.orghttp://wtc7.nethttp://infowars.comtotal inside job. get a clue.
March 15th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
And I quote from http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/11818067/the_low_post_the_hopeless_stupidity_of_911_conspiracies/4 “Whenever anyone chooses to dismiss 9/11 conspiracy theorists, accusations fly; the Internet screams that you’ve aided and abetted George Bush. I disagree. To me, the 9/11 Truth movement is, itself, a classic example of the pathology of George Bush’s America. Bush has presided over a country that has become hopelessly divided into insoluble, paranoid tribes, one of which happens to be Bush’s own government. All of these tribes have things in common; they’re insular movements that construct their own reality by cherry-picking the evidence they like from the vast information marketplace, violently disbelieve in the humanity of those outside their ranks, and lavishly praise their own movement mediocrities as great thinkers and achievers. There are as many Thomas Paines in the 9/11 Truth movement as there are Isaac Newtons among the Intelligent Design crowd.There’s not a whole lot of difference, psychologically, between Sean Hannity’s followers believing liberals to be the same as terrorists, and 9/11 Truthers believing even the lowest soldier or rank-and-file FAA or NORAD official to be a cold-blooded mass murderer. In both cases you have to be far gone enough into your private world of silly tribal bullshit that the concept of “your fellow citizen” has ceased to have any meaning whatsoever. It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality. Some, like Bush, sell a prepackaged version. Others just make theirs up out of thin air. God help us.”
March 15th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Bummer.The only cable package I can get in my neighborhood here in Mexico City includes Fox News, along with BBC and CNN International, in its basic package. Along with various local and international news in Spanish, naturally.For news, I almost never use TV, read English and Spanish sources on the internet.I watch movies and House on TV. That’s about it. My wife likes some of the other series, like Animal Planet, so that’s why we have a TV and cable. Oh, and the music channels are cool while we’re cooking and cleaning…
March 15th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
You’d be surprised. It’s the only station we have on TV in my upper middle class dry cleaners in a nice part of town. I enjoy it, because it gives me ample time to make comments to the customers.
March 15th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
no, I don’t think anyone would make that mistake.
March 15th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
uh oh, break out the tinfoil hats!
March 15th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
The funny (disturbing?) thing is, I wouldn’t put it past some of the politicians/army to pull something like this. I just hope there is some moral fiber in office. However, we may be seeing something similar happening with all those warships near Iran. But then would Bush and buddies do that?…
March 15th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Well, maybe they should change the name of the network to FOX Comedy Channel. Otherwise people might start mistaking their programming for news.
March 15th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
The more poeple talk conspiracy the more people believe it. You can throw any thought out there of how you think something happened and most people would believe it, but to think that the president took a risk of ordering someone down a chain to have people put explosives inside that building are pretty far out. Rather ridiculous. Bush haters will go along with anything that is contrary to the Republican party or Bush administration. Funny thing is a lot of their lives seem to be wrapped up in Star wars, Maybe their crazy!