‘Abominable betrayal’ - Patterson demands answers over Jamaica’s Cuba vote shift
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The Government of Jamaica’s abstention from the United Nations General Assembly vote to lift the United States (US) embargo against Cuba amounts to an “abominable betrayal” that stains the country’s record of standing up against oppression. This is the pronouncement of former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, who has demanded that the Government provide a full explanation for its departure from Jamaica’s long-standing opposition to the 66-year-old economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed
