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The Gov­ern­ment is as­sur­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go has re­ceived no di­rec­tive from the Unit­ed States to halt the long-stand­ing prac­tice of send­ing na­tion­als to Cu­ba to study med­i­cine.

The as­sur­ance comes days af­ter St Lu­cia’s Prime Min­is­ter Philip Pierre dis­closed that his gov­ern­ment had been in­struct­ed by Wash­ing­ton to dis­con­tin­ue the pro­gramme.

Pierre made the rev­e­la­tion dur­ing his ad­dress at the 2nd World Con­gress on Racial and Eth­nic Health Dis­par­i­ties in St Lu­cia, which ran from Jan­u­ary 27 to 31.