Jamaica’s decision to end its 50-year medical cooperation with Cuba has triggered concerns about how the move might impact the country’s bilateral medical scholarship programme, with at least one scholarship recipient already making contingency plans should the initiative also be scrapped. “I pray it doesn’t have to get to that point,” the student, who requested anonymity, told The Gleaner. The student, who has been studying medicine in Cuba under the scholarship for almost two years, said she and her parents have begun exploring other options. Read more