Havana, May 26 (RHC) -- The Ministries of Education of Cuba and Jamaica signed a new agreement for professional and academic assistance, an official source informed Wednesday.

According to the Cuban Foreign Ministry website, during the signing ceremony, Fayval Williams, Jamaica's Minister of Education, Youth and Information, commented on the historic cooperation relations between the two Caribbean nations.

She also highlighted the important contribution of Cuban teachers to public education in various disciplines, emphasizing the Spanish language.

For her part, the Cuban ambassador to Jamaica, Inés Fors, stressed that 'the document's signing symbolizes increasingly closer bilateral cooperation and the broader development of the ties between the two countries, reports the Cubaminrex portal.

The website adds that this agreement, in force for three years and renewable, endorses the cooperation that both parties have maintained for almost 25 years in the educational sector. The Cuban Foreign Ministry also informed that 83 Cuban teachers from are currently working in the neighboring island.

The contingent of teachers teaches 36 thousand children and young people at all levels of education in almost all the provinces of the Caribbean island.

Cuba and Jamaica established relations in December 1972, and since then, they have shared cooperation links in various spheres.