Bahamas and Cuba agree to co-operate more

Read storyThe Bahamas and Cuba signed an agreement to co-operate on economic, technical, health and education matters.

In a ceremony on Wednesday, Minister of Foreign Affairs Brent Symonette and Cuban Ambassador to the Bahamas Jose Luis Ponce Caraballo signed on behalf of their respective governments.

There are several pending agreements between the countries, including:

• Collaboration in the field of plant quarantine and plant protection
  
• Collaboration in the fields of animal quarantine and the controls and eradication of animal diseases
  
• Expansion of a program that employs Cuban teachers in public schools
  
• An eye program which allows Bahamians with eye problems of any kind to seek medical help from Cuba free of charge
  

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