T&T denies US pressure to end medical study programme with Cuba
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Health
February 4, 2026
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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.
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