Haiti is on Red Alert on Friday as Hurricane Tomas approaches from the south, already extending its winds and rain towards the country still trying to recover from the January earthquake and the recent cholera outbreak. Here is the latest report from Haitilibre.com.
Read MoreCuba’s Aeronautic Institute has released the passenger list for the ill-fated Aerocaribbean flight that crashed late Thursday afternoon leaving no survivors of the 68 persons on board.
Read MoreA hurricane alert is now in effect for three of Cuba’s easternmost provinces as Tropical Storm moves north-northeast from its present location just southeast of Jamaica, informed the Cuban Civil Defense authorities on Thursday.
Read MoreA passenger plane crashed in central Cuba with 68 persons aboard late Thursday afternoon reported the island’s TV and online media. The plane was flying on the route from Santiago de Cuba to Havana and there was no word of possible survivors.
Read MoreHumanitarian agencies try to displace a maximum of people of the zones threatened by the Tomas tropical storm. “The situation is difficult, because getting people to move again is tricky,” said Doyle, spokesman for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), many fear to lose the few possessions they have left.
Read More“This is like getting married in paradise,” said a young Canadian couple fully dressed for the occasion. They had just gotten married amid the sand of Cayo Santa Maria, an astonishingly beautiful island of the Cuban archipelago. When people in Havana told me that last year more than 500 foreign couples had been married on its beaches, I found it difficult to believe.
Read MoreTropical Storm Tomas could cross Cuba’s eastern tip between tonight and the early morning hours of tomorrow, according to the forecast of the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Tomas maintains winds of 85 kilometers per hour and it is expected it will cause heavy rains, with between 100 and more than 200 millimeters, reported IPS. The Cuban Meteorology Institute (Insmet) will issue its next report at 6:00 p.m. EST.
Read MoreTrade with Venezuela represented 24.9 per cent of Cuba’s foreign commerce, which strengthens it as the island’s first trade partner, Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Rodrigo Malmierca affirmed. In the last five years the flow of imports and exports between both countries has amounted to more than 17 billion dollars.
Read MoreCardinal Jaime Ortega thanked the Cuban government for its backing in the construction of the new San Carlos y San Ambrosio Seminary, built on the outskirts of the Cuban capital and inaugurated yesterday. The Catholic Church and the Cuban State have improved their relations in recent years, after the visit by Pope John Paul II in 1998. In that sense, the most recent episode was the negotiation to release dozens of political prisoners.
Read MoreSpanish Supreme Court judge Eloy Velasco asked that European country’s government to begin the procedures for the extradition of Arturo Cubillas, a resident in Cuba, processed in absentia for the crimes of conspiring to commit terrorist homicides and the possession of explosives in collaboration with the ETA terrorist band.
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