The fibre-optic underwater cable that will join Cuba with Venezuela will be operative by July 2011, Alberto Rodríguez Arufe, deputy minister of informatics and communications, announced. The cable, which will increase by 3,000 times the current speed of data, image and voice transmission in the island, will cost 70 million dollars.
Read MoreHaving barely shaken off the dust from the road, I’m rushing to share with HT readers, some of what I observed during my recent 1,700 mile trip through valleys, mountains, cities, countryside and beaches in Cuba.
Read MoreIt had been raining for a few days in the eastern part of the country, and that day dawn came in the rain. It seemed that Marbelis wouldn’t be on time to her job. “I’m going to be late today,” she said. “Thank God for the rain we need so badly, but please don’t let it rain at this time in the day,” she thought to herself while looking up at the sky.
Read MorePaula is now a hurricane with 120 kph (75 mph) winds as it moves towards the northeastern Yucatan peninsula on Tuesday morning, reports Cuba’s Meteorological Institute (INSMET) in an advisory released at 6:00 a.m. EST.
Read MoreUSA pitching dominated the quarterfinals game against rival Cuba on Monday, striking out a sensational 13 batters in the 4-1 win that kept them undefeated in the World Cup/Pan American Games qualifier.
Read MoreTropical Storm Paula formed in the southwestern Caribbean on Monday and Cuba’s weather experts say they will “keep a very close watch on the evolution and path” of the weather system.
Read MoreCuban rock ‘n’ roll, once an underground movement, is being mapped for inclusion in an exhaustive compendium of Latin American rock — from the music itself to its transformation into a lifestyle. The project’s promoters say the Cuban rock music “map” will serve as a guide, a way to open doors, and as a historical record of a musical genre imported and kept for decades deep in the cultural underground.
Read MoreCuba doubled the number of intermediate-level technical careers linked to the agricultural sector to around 19,500, with a network of educational centers that covers almost all the country’s municipalities, Kenelma Carvajal, deputy minister of education, announced. The official also stressed the increase in the income of specialists related to construction. Both increases correspond to a government strategy to reduce the workforce deficit in those sectors.
Read MoreCuba (5-1) shut out Puerto Rico 4-0 on Sunday and plays its arch rival, USA (6-0), on Monday in the quarterfinals of the World Cup/Panamerican Games qualifying tournament being held in Puerto Rico.
Read MoreA couple of months ago I met “Marielys”. As I walked with her to the bus stop, she told me something that almost knocked me on my butt. She said, “I quit a job where I earned 475 pesos a month plus a bag of toiletries (with soap, deodorant, detergent, sanitary napkins, razors, etc.) for another job where I earn only 355 pesos and don’t get a toiletry bag”
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