A Unit­ed States leg­is­la­tor, who last month had been crit­i­cal of Ja­maica over its state­ment on Cu­ba, is now sup­port­ive of the Caribbean coun­try’s po­si­tion on dis­con­tin­u­ing the cur­rent arrange­ment re­gard­ing the de­ploy­ment of Cuban med­ical pro­fes­sion­als in the pub­lic health sec­tor.

Con­gress­man Car­los Gimenez had ac­cused Ja­maica of cov­er­ing up for the Cuban dic­ta­tor­ship af­ter Prime Min­is­ter An­drew Hol­ness had high­light­ed the eco­nom­ic hard­ship, en­er­gy short­ages, and grow­ing hu­man­i­tar­i­an chal­lenges be­ing ex­pe­ri­enced in Cu­ba in his speech at the open­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) sum­mit in St. Kitts and Nevis last week.

On Thurs­day, Kingston an­nounced that it would dis­con­tin­ue the cur­rent arrange­ment re­gard­ing the de­ploy­ment of med­ical pro­fes­sion­als in the pub­lic health sec­tor by the Cu­ba gov­ern­ment.