News March 24 2026 by Erica Virtue/Senior Gleaner Writer

Doctors in departure lounge

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  • From left: Enrique Martinez Gonzalez, rheumatology specialist; Yaselis Jacas Serrano, emergency nurse; and Humberto Alvarez Luna, neurology specialist, in an interview with The Gleaner at the Cuban Embassy in Kingston yesterday. From left: Enrique Martinez Gonzalez, rheumatology specialist; Yaselis Jacas Serrano, emergency nurse; and Humberto Alvarez Luna, neurology specialist, in an interview with The Gleaner at the Cuban Embassy in Kingston yesterday.
  • Martinez Gonzalez Martinez Gonzalez
  • Jacas Serrano (foreground) Jacas Serrano (foreground)
  • Alvarez Luna Alvarez Luna

As the curtain falls on more than half a century of medical cooperation with Jamaica, highly trained Cuban specialists will begin exiting the island this Thursday, departing on four chartered flights from Kingston to their homeland, which has been reeling from increasingly frequent islandwide blackouts linked to a United States (US)-imposed fuel blockade.

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