Viaje al Exterior

Jamaica, Barbados and Granada, 1998

Jamaica
 
Montego Bay
 
July 29

•    Arrival at Montego Bay airport.
•    Speech delivered at Sam Sharpe Square.
•    Fidel attended the  official welcome  reception at the Half Moon Hotel.
 
Kingston
 
July 30

•    Arrival at Kingston’s airport.
•    Conversation with Edward Seaga, leader of the opposition, at the Pegasus Hotel.
•    Conversation with Howard Cooke, Governor General of Jamaica at King’s House.
•    Speech delivered to express appreciation for being awarded the Jamaica’s Merit Order during the reception hosted in his honor at Mandela Park.
•    Fidel laid a wreath on Michael Manley’s tomb at the National Heroes Park.
•    Conversation with Percival Patterson, Prime Minister of Jamaica, during lunch at his private residence.
•    Press conference offered at Jamaica’s Conference Center.
 
Barbados
 
Bridgetown
 
July 31

•    Arrival at ‘Grantly Adams’ airport.
•    Conversation with Owen Arthur, Prime Minister of Barbados, at the VIP Room of the ‘Grantly Adams’ airport.
 
August 1st

•    Speech delivered at the ceremony celebrating Emancipation Day in Barbados.
•    Fidel unveiled a memorial to the victims of the sabotage against a ‘Cubana de Aviacion’ airliner at Payne Bay.
•    Speech delivered  during the ceremony in memory of the victims of the sabotage against a ‘Cubana de Aviacion’ airliner at Payne Bay.
•    Interview granted to the Cuban newspaper Juventud Rebelde.
•    Reception hosted in his honor at the Governor-General’s residence in Barbados.
 
August 2
 

•    Meeting with Barbadian entrepreneurs at the Hilton Barbados Hotel.
•    Interview to the press at the Hilton Barbados Hotel.
 
Grenada
Saint George’s
 

•    Arrival at the international airport of Point Salines.
•    Fidel unveiled a plaque commemorating the assistance offered by the government and the people of Cuba to the construction of the Point Salines airport at the lobby of the international airport of Point Salines.
•    Words pronounced at the reception hosted in his honor at the residence of Sir Daniel Williams, Governor General of Grenada.
 
August 3

•    Conversation with Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada, at his official residence.
•    Visit to Alimenta Bishop, the mother of Maurice Bishop, who was President of Grenada from 1979 to 1973.
•    Speech delivered in a mass rally at the Tanteen Stadium.
•    Reception hosted in his honor by Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada.