Concerns grow as Jamaica ends Cuban medical programme

‘Behind the political pressures, policies [and] propaganda are real people’

Originally published on Global Voices

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Perhaps Jamaicans should have seen this coming when the government, back in 2025, announced it would be reviewing the decades-old programme that brought hundreds of Cuban medical personnel to its shores — an unusual move, especially for a programme that had been running smoothly for 50 years.