Cu­ba says it re­mains com­mit­ted to work­ing with T&T and has al­so ex­pressed its grat­i­tude to the peo­ple of this twin is­land re­pub­lic for their sol­i­dar­i­ty, amid sour­ing re­la­tions with the Unit­ed States.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day, Cuban Am­bas­sador to Port-of-Spain, Gus­ta­vo Veliz Oli­vares, al­so thanked po­lit­i­cal and so­cial or­gan­i­sa­tions for ex­pres­sions of broth­er­ly love dur­ing what he termed a “dif­fi­cult” time for his coun­try.

His state­ment comes in the wake of con­cerns ex­pressed by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, while ad­dress­ing Cari­com lead­ers in St Kitts ear­li­er this week, about the hu­man­i­tar­i­an sit­u­a­tion in Ha­vana, and Cu­ba’s con­tin­u­ing dic­ta­tor­ship in the ab­sence of free and fair elec­tions.