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The Grena­da gov­ern­ment has an­nounced what it termed “im­por­tant changes” to the Cuban Work­ers Pro­gramme fol­low­ing a re­quest made by the Unit­ed States to re­view the pro­gramme.

A state­ment from the Min­istry of For­eign Af­fairs said that it is “im­por­tant changes to strength­en the ad­min­is­tra­tion and over­sight of the Cuban Work­ers Pro­gramme have been im­ple­ment­ed, fol­low­ing high-lev­el con­sul­ta­tions be­tween Grena­di­an and Cuban of­fi­cials in Ha­vana” this month.

The state­ment said that the dis­cus­sions were led by For­eign Af­fairs, Trade and Ex­port De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter, Joseph An­dall, and in­clud­ing Health Min­is­ter, Philip Teles­ford and that “it was agreed that all Cuban pro­fes­sion­als serv­ing in Grena­da would work un­der con­di­tions equal to those of their Grena­di­an coun­ter­parts.