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Grenada PM grateful to Cuba for training nurses for the Caribbean Published on Thursday, March 4, 2010 Email To Friend    Print Version JAGÜEY GRANDE -- Prime Minister Tillman Thomas of Grenada, who is currently visiting Cuba at the invitation of President Raúl Castro, praised the Cuban training programme for Caribbean nurses. On Tuesday, the Grenadian leader visited the Mario Raudilio Fleitas International Faculty in the south of Matanzas province, where young people from St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Jamaica and Grenada are studying. "We are grateful to the teaching staff here and the people of Cuba for this noble contribution," affirmed the prime minister after acknowledging the island’s example in the field of health and the importance of nursing in the strategic projection of any country. Dunia Salas Marín, dean of the college (with a matriculation of 306 students), informed the Prime Minister Thomas of the organisation, material conditions and aims of the school, as well as the human resources deployed to attain those aspirations. "We want to train nurses with a wide general culture, high performance and social commitment," she stated. She said that 17 Grenadian students are studying in the second semester of the second year of a nursing course, with a 100% passing rate. The Caribbean premier confirmed that his presence in Cuba will propitiate the further strengthening of relations between the two countries and consolidate the friendship between the two peoples.   Reads : 25 Back... Comments: No comments on this topic yet. Be the first one to submit a comment. Back... Send us your comments!   Send us your comments on this article for publication in our Readers' Forum or as a Letter to the Editor. All fields are required and in the interest of openness and transparency we will no longer accept anonymous submissions. We therefore request that all submissions include a name for publication, regardless of content. We will in special circumstances protect a writer's identity only after we have established good cause for anonymity, otherwise we will not be able to publish the submission. For your contribution to reach us, you must (a) provide a valid e-mail address and (b) click on the validation link that will be sent to the e-mail address you provide.  If the address is not valid or you don't click on the validation link, it will be a waste of your time typing your submission because we will never see it! Your Name: Your Email: (Validation required) Comments: Enter Validation Code *