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Guyana and Cuba yesterday signed agreements that will see cooperation in the areas of sports and education and continuing collaboration in health.A team led by President Donald Ramotar is on an official visit there since Wednesday.According to Cuba’s Prensa Latina news website, the health agreement deepens the Cuban collaboration with the South American country of Guyana in the matter of medical attention in the primary and secondary levels, as well as the support in the training of professionals.Regarding the sports sector,Jordy Nelson Packers Jersey UK, the agreement looks for collaboration with technical assistance in physical education.Cuba is well-known for its prowess in the field of sports worldwide.Georgetown and Havana also signed an agreement to waive certain categories of visas, “for the sake of facilitating the trips of holders of those documents”.Signing on behalf of Guyana was Foreign Minister,Steve Bartkowski Falcons Jersey UK, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, while her Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodriguez; the Minister of Public Health,Donnie Shell Steelers Jersey UK, Roberto Morales,Jared Cook Packers Jersey UK, and the President of the National Institute of Deportes,Rocky Bleier Steelers Jersey UK, Physical Education and Recreation, Cristián Jimenez, represented their various portfolios on behalf of Cuba.Cuba and Guyana maintain cooperation links in sectors including public health,Franco Harris Steelers Jersey UK, education, culture and sport.More than 1, 200 Cuban medical professionals have served in Guyana under past agreements.As part of the “Vision Now Operation”, and before the creation of the National Center of Ophthalmology of Port Mourant,Mike Webster Steelers Jersey UK, Berbice, more than one 1,James Harrison Steelers Jersey UK,000 Guyanese patients with eye problems were operated on here.Four diagnostic centres now exist in Guyana with 175 Cubans, including doctors,John Stallworth Steelers Jersey UK, nurses and technicians, working.Regarding the educational sector, more than 550 Guyanese students have graduated there.The president has met with Guyanese students in Cuba. |
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