Jamaica’s government is showing vision and leadership over Cuba

By David Jessop

On May 4, Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, plus the island’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Kenneth Baugh and its Ministers of Tourism, Agriculture, Housing and Health travelled to Havana. There, as befits a relationship between two friendly neighbouring Caribbean nations, they were met at the very highest levels of the Cuban government and party.

However, this was no routine event. It was of unusual significance to both countries both in its substance and its implications and conveyed important messages about change in both Jamaica and Cuba.