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Brave doctors who take lives from death in the Gambia
(*) By. MSC. Maria Ines Alvarez Garay Dr. Carlos Alberto Rosabal Ramírez has in his long professional life two missions in Africa, Angola (2011-2013) and the Republic of the Gambia from 2015 to the present. He graduated from General Practitioner in 1987, and Gynecologist in 1990, he also has a Diploma in Intensive Therapy and Continue reading
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Gambia urges U.S. to end embargo on Cuba
Sep 30, 2021, 12:01 PM | Article By: Pa Modou Cham Vice President Dr. Isatou Touray in her address at the United Nations General Assembly emphasised that The Gambia believes in friendly relations between states as the bedrock of international solidarity and cooperation. In this regard, VP Touray called on the United States to end the Continue reading
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Fidel at the UN, five hours for history
– While the US authorities assumed an openly hostile attitude, in Harlem Fidel found a friendly atmosphere, surrounded by the poor and Afro-American community that welcomed him and still remembers him. United Nations. Sep. 26th (Prensa Latina) Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s first speech to the UN General Assembly took place on September 26, 61 years Continue reading
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Cuban Health heroes in the Gambia: Dr. Marubia, three missions saving lives in The Gambia
By. Msc. Maria Inés Alvarez Garay Dr. Marubia Rosales Sánchez is a Medicine graduate in 1990, a First and Second Degree specialist in Comprehensive General Medicine, and a Master in medical urgencies and emergencies. In 1999 she arrived in the Republic of the Gambia for the first time, then she returned in 2007 and now Continue reading
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Statement by H.E. Mr. Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, at the General Debate of the Seventy-Sixth Regular Session of the United Nations General Assembly
Statement by H.E. Mr. Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the Republic, at the General Debate of the Seventy-Sixth Regular Session of the United Nations General Assembly. September 23rd, 2021. Mr. Secretary General; Mr. President; We are living uncertain times. Under the Continue reading
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Cuba how great you are
Maria Inés Álvarez Garay (*) Pediatric vaccination in Cuba against Covid-19 is marching by leaps and bounds, organized and efficient. Today parents, grandparents and family in general feel tranquility and immense satisfaction because our children, our greatest treasures and the future of our country, are being immunized against the pandemic that has robbed us of Continue reading
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Gambia called on Africa to intensify solidarity with Cuba
Banjul, Sept. 16.- The President of the Gambia-Cuba Friendship Association, Mr. Joseph Modou Peh Grant, called on the peoples and governments of Africa to intensify their solidarity with the Caribbean Island, at a time when the United States is raging. the prolonged and criminal blockade that has been imposed on it for 60 years, in Continue reading
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The Gambia and Cuba advocate for solidarity, friendship and peace
Banjul, Sept. 14th. The Gambian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. Mamadou Tangara, and the Cuban Ambassador, H.E. Rubén G. Abelenda, agreed that solidarity, friendship and peace must prevail, more than ever, in these difficult pandemic that humanity lives. The Chancellor of this West African nation received in his office the diplomat of the largest of Continue reading
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CONVOCATION : African Continental Virtual Event of Solidarity with Cuba
Dear friends, The effects of the pandemic prevent the holding of the Seventh African Continental Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba, which was agreed to take place in the sisterRepublic of Mozambique from November 23 to 25, 2021. In the face of this situation, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples invites you to participate Continue reading
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Eternally grateful
By: Maria Ines Alvarez Garay The Cuban Medical Brigade in the Gambia is eternally grateful and very proud of the incredible work of our colleagues who provide health services and fight the pandemic in the Greater Antilles. Today the world is experiencing one of the most difficult health moments in the history of humanity, health Continue reading
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Heirs of Fidel in the Gambia
By: MSc. María Inés Álvarez Garay. On August 13th, 1926, in Birán, the former Cuban province of Oriente, a man worthy of enormous personality was born, the most emblematic, transcendent and outstanding of the entire 20th century and part of the 21st. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz. Revolutionary leader who positively transformed the lives of millions Continue reading
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The New York Times: Biden on Hard Line on Cuba
Joe Biden’s presidency raised expectations about a change in US policy toward Cuba, but until today he has implemented a tougher line than his predecessor, Donald Trump, The New York Times reported. According to the journalistic work entitled ‘It is disappointing: Cubans criticize Biden’s strategy’, the Democrat’s mandate pointed, for many, to a return to Continue reading
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Pride for Cuba and The Gambia
By: MSc. Maria Ines Alvarez Garay «The most important thing will have to be their total consecration to the most noble and humane of the trades: saving lives and preserving health. More than doctors, they will be jealous guardians of the most precious of the human being; apostles and creators of a more humane world.» Continue reading
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Cuba confirms 92.28% efficacy of Abdala vaccine
Havana, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) With three doses Cuba’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate, Abdala, showed 92,28 percent efficacy in Phase III trial, its developers reported on Monday. Abdala, a vaccine candidate from the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB, in Spanish), shows 92.28 percent efficacy after three jabs, the island’s Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries Business Continue reading
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New Cuban health professionals arrived in the Gambia
By Maria Inés Álvarez Garay (*) Banjul, June 20. – The resurgence of the blockade, the discrediting campaigns against the Cuban Medical Brigades (BMC), nor the continuous attacks by the United States against the largest of the Antilles do not matter. We Cubans continue with firm and gigantic steps by the course that our history Continue reading
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Gambian members of the parliament demand lifting of the US blockade of Cuba
Banjul, June 18th. – Members of the Gambia-Cuba Parliamentary Friendship Group today called on the United States to lift the blockade that it has imposed on the largest of the Antilles for six decades. The legislators of this West African nation expressed that the economic, commercial and financial siege of Washington prevents the Caribbean island Continue reading
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Reason is and always will be our shield
Declaration by the International Relations Commission of theNational Assembly of the People’s Power of Cuba Once again, the European Parliament has fulfilled the sad role ofhostage to a small group of MEPs of the far right, obsessed withdestroying the Cuban revolution, who have known links to Miami based organizations funded by Washington. The spurious and Continue reading
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France provides one million syringes for vaccination in Cuba
Paris, Jun 10 (Prensa Latina) The solidarity campaign of the Cuba Linda and France Cuba associations support the vaccination against Covid-19 on the island exceeded 80 thousand euros collected on Thursday, the equivalent of more than one million syringes. Launched in April, the initiative accumulates 80,804 euros, thanks to the contribution of hundreds of citizens, Continue reading
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Why are Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela doing so well in the fight against Covid19?
By Marc Vandepitte | 06/08/2021 | Latin American and Caribbean. It is curious that precisely the three American countries that suffer harsh economic sanctions by the United States are having much better results than the others in their fight against Covid19. One thing is certain: the pandemic has exposed the crisis of the neoliberal and Continue reading
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The Gambia acknowledges the work of Cuban doctors in Bansang region
By: MSc. Maria Ines Alvarez Garay (*) – The grateful accompany each other Bansang, The Gambia, June 6th. The Cuban Medical Brigade in the Gambia (CMB) posted in all regions throughout this West African nation, carries out a meritorious work, raising health indices, and improving the quality of life of the population. This weekend, in Continue reading
"An Island on a Continent"
"The greatest crime that can be committed against this continent today is neocolonialism, the attempt to establish capitalism in the peoples of Africa." Fidel Castro
"An Island on a Continent" 