Pictured standing Cuba’s Ambassador to Barbados, Sergio Jorge Pastrana watching Sen.Dr. the Hon. Shantal Munro-Knight, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office with responsibility for Culture (closest to camera) and H.E. the Hon.Dame Billie Miller, D.A., O.C.C., BCH lay wreaths at the monument.
Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 was a Cuban flight from Barbados to Jamaica that was brought down on 6 October 1976 by a terrorist bomb attack.[3] All 73 people on board the Douglas DC-8 aircraft were killed after two time bombs went off and the plane crashed into the sea. The crash killed every member of the Cuban national fencing team.
Government representatives, The Cuban Ambassador, Cuban Nurses and Doctors here in Barbados working in assisting the Hospital here, the Venezuelan Ambassador as well as the Guyanese Consul General and other sympathizers gathered at the Cubana Monument in a Re-dedication ceremony in commemoration of the 46th Anniversary of the bombing of Cubana Airlines Flight 455 just off Barbados.
Posing at left Nurses and Doctors from Cuba here assisting at the Hospital and the official party. Libation to those who perished in the tragedy by Mr. Baba Tifase John Howell.Welcome Remarks by Master of Ceremonies, Dr. Sharon Mashall. Poem by Winston Farrell.From left to right : Bishop Derick Richards of the Methodist Church: H.E. Mrs. Martha Ortega, Charge d’Affaires of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: H.E. the Hon.Dame Billie Miller, D.A., O.C.C., BCH: Sen.Dr. the Hon. Shantal Munro-Knight, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Offfice with responsibility for Culture: H.E. Mr. Sergio Pastrana, Ambassador to Cuba: H.E.Mrs. Geneva Ross-Tyndall, Consul General of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana.Re-dedication of the Monument by Bishop Derick Richards of the Methodist Church Remarks by H.E. the Hon.Dame Billie Miller, D.A., O.C.C., BCH.Remarks by H.E. Mr. Sergio Pastrana, Ambassador to Cuba
Remarks by H.E.Mrs. Geneva Ross-Tyndall, Consul General of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana.
Remarks by Mr. David Denny , President of the Cuban Barbadian Friendship Association.
Remarks by H.E. Mrs. Martha Ortega, Charge d’Affaires of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Remarks by Sen.Dr. the Hon. Shantal Munro-Knight, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office with responsibility for Culture & a congratulatory hug from H.E. Mr. Sergio Pastrana, Ambassador to Cuba on an excellent speech.
Closing Performance by the Coleridge and Parry School Chorale.
