ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) — Cuba’s Ambassador to Dominica, Miguel Manuel Fraga Gonzalez, has brushed aside a United States offer of a US$100 million humanitarian aid package, reiterating Havana’s decades-old call for Washington to lift the trade and economic embargo on the Caribbean island.

Earlier this month, the Donald Trump administration offered an aid package to help the Cuban people amid an energy and fuel crisis, stipulating that the funds would be distributed through the Catholic Church and other independent humanitarian organisations.

But Fraga, speaking on the state-owned DBS radio on Monday night, where he expressed Havana’s appreciation for the 30-year diplomatic relations with Dominica, said if Washington is serious about its aid package, it should end the trade embargo that has been in place since February 7, 1962.