Army General Raul Castro, president of the councils of State and Ministers, held official talks on Sunday morning with Gaston A. Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda and president Pro Tempore of the Caribbean Community, who is on an official visit to Cuba and heads his delegation to the 5th CARICOM – Cuba Summit.»

Army General Raul Castro, president of the councils of State and Ministers, received Doctor Keith Mitchell, prime minister of Grenada, at the Palacio de la Revolucion (Revolution Building), who is on an official visit to Cuba and heads the Grenadian delegation to the 5th CARICOM – Cuba Summit.»

Heads of State or government and other personalities of the Caribbean that will attend the 5th CARICOM-Cuba Summit, toured on Sunday in this capital the National Zoo, one of the largest in the region, with 340 hectares.»

Army General Raul Castro, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and President of the Councils of State and Ministers of Cuba, presided over the political meeting and military ceremony on the occasion of the 118th anniversary of the death in combat of General Antonio Maceo.»

Cuba continues to be a great example to those in the Caribbean who wish a better future, said on Saturday in Havana Freundel J. Stuart, prime minister and minister of National Security, Public Service and Urban Development of Barbados.»

Gaston A. Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, arrived on Saturday in this capital with confidence in the contribution the 5th CARICOM-Cuba Summit will make to the improvement of relations between Caribbean countries.»

Ralph E. Gonsalves, prime minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, considered on Saturday that the 5th CARICOM-CubaSummit will be a space to renew solidarity between the Caribbean peoples.»

Cuba President Raul Castro stressed the need for unity among Caribbean countries and Cuba to confront common challenges imposed by globalization and stressed that only with close cooperation we can overcome. In his opening speech to the Fifth Caricom-Cuba Summit mechanism, the Cuban leader recalled the history of slavery and the struggle for independence that share the Caribbean nations, which »

Cuba has played an important role in the development of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member nations, with its huge contribution in terms of education and health, declared on Saturday in Havana the Prime Minister of Grenada, Keith Mitchell.»

The Panamanian government on Thursday officially invited Cuban President Raul Castro to the Summit of the Americas, which will be hosted by that Central American nation April 10-11, 2015, the Panamanian Foreign Ministry announced.»