United Nations specialists will present today in Cuba a project to conserve agricultural biodiversity in six biosphere reserves on the island, announced Lázara Raymond, a Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment official. The initiative’s aim is the conservation and sustainable use of the traditional genetic patrimony of those rural areas, reported IPS.
Read MoreThe Cuban government fears the emergence of an opposition movement on the Internet, which uses social networks like Facebook to organize actions against it similar to those that occurred in Ukraine, Iran and most recently in Egypt and Tunisia, according to a video published on the Vimeo platform. The material, allegedly screened for officers of the Ministry of the Interior and the Armed Forces, claims that the United States wants to encourage access to the Internet on the island, beyond the state restrictions, to promote dissident activities, reported IPS.
Read MoreIn the quiet desert community of Nomirage, located just 20 kilometers east of San Diego, the sounds of impending war creep over the silent landscape.
Read MoreDavid Torrens’ music is marked by the influence of Argentinean rock, Brazilian sounds and traditional Cuban music.
Read MoreImam Mohammed Al-Saba of the Eisa mosque here in the centre of the rural town Kirdasa takes the pulpit to tell his congregation he can smell “the air of freedom for the first time in 30 years.”
Read MoreMy husband and I are planning a trip to Cuba over the Easter vacation in April and would like to know if the new Havana Times Photo Contest is open to foreigners as well as Cubans?
Read MoreRafael knew what awaited him if he returned to the island branded a counter-revolutionary: public ridicule, his children shamed, psychological abuse of his wife, evil stares, telephone calls…
Read MoreRipple effects of the Egyptian uprising are now spreading to Gaza, where some groups are planning a new rally next week. Moves by some Gazans to mimic protesters in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen by taking to the streets are making the Hamas government nervous.
Read MoreCuba renewed the international campaign to ask for the release of the Cuban Five imprisoned in the United States charged with espionage, the local press reported. The International Committee to Free the Five urged persons interested in the case to write to President Barack Obama so that he pardon the Cubans, who are considered heroes on the island, reportó IPS.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of State rejected the 20 year prison sentence requested for U.S. agent Alan Gross, imprisoned in Cuba since December 2009, in a communiqué released in Washington. The White House insists that Gross is innocent and was only helping the Caribbean country’s Jewish community.
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