The weather this week will be influenced by a high pressure system with weak gradients. There is a chance of rain on Friday morning. Maximum temperatures are expected to fluctuate between the 27°C (81 F) and the 22°C (72 F), with minimum temperatures of between 17°C (63 F) and 15°C (59 F).
Read MoreVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez began the New Year with special powers to implement his “21st century socialism”, while the opposition returned to the legislature Wednesday after a five-year absence.
Read MoreMinister of Higher Education Miguel Díaz-Canel questioned the university enrollment policies in the last five years, which led to a deficit of 110,000 professionals in different technical fields, agriculture and natural sciences, pedagogies and mathematics for a lack of correspondence between the economic needs of the country and the enrollments opened.
Read MoreCuba’s Cubatabaco state-run company brought a lawsuit against U.S. businessman Ismail Houmani for using in his cigar and cigarette shop a name very similar to the Casas del Habano (Cigar shops), the Miami-based El Nuevo Herald reported. The Casa de La Habana, which was opened in Michigan 10 years ago, sells cigars made in Honduras, Dominican Republic and Nicaragua.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro met last Dec. 29 with Ecuadorian Vice President Lenín Moreno. Castro said that the island would back the new National Program for the Prevention of Disabilities, a continuation of the diagnosis done through the Manuela Espejo brigades.
Read MoreHT interviews Reinier Mariño, a recognized flamenco guitarist from Cuba who left the island several years ago to pursue a fruitful international career. “I love to play; it’s perhaps what I love most in life. I would dare to say, with all sincerely, that I like playing the guitar more than making love,” says the musician.
Read MoreA few weeks ago we learned through the Cuban minister of Labor of a plan to retrain workers being laid off; its objective is to export these individuals. The idea is simple: if there is an excess here, they can be exported to other countries (technically this is called the “export of professional services”). This would solve two problems: unemployment and the chronic shortage of hard currency.
Read MoreA vision of “the Apocalypse, everything burnt, turned black from ashes and smoke,” was what photographer Mila Petrillo saw when she returned in October to what had been her Eden in the Brazilian municipality of Alto Paraiso, 230 km from Brasilia.
Read MoreThe labor reform in the state sector, which will represent the laying off of half a million persons by the end of March, begins today in Cuba in the ministries of the sugar industry, agriculture, construction, public health and tourism, announced Salvador Valdés, general secretary of the Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions, the only union organization in the country.
Read MoreThe U.S. Coast Guard repatriated 16 Cuban emigrants intercepted at sea close to Bahamas when they were attempting to reach the United States on a speedboat, according to Coast Guard sources. Three persons suspected of trafficking in persons were detained as part of the interception.
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