Bye Bye Summer Havana Photos
While technically summer is still with us for another week, for most Cubans the beginning of September and the new school year marked the end of the season. (43 photos)
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Author: Circles Robinson
Dominica PM Skerrit Visits Cuba
Roosevelt Skerrit, the prime minister of the Caribbean island nation of Dominica arrived in Havana early Tuesday heading up a delegation set to attend a meeting of Cuba with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
Read MoreIgor, Julia, Back-to-Back Hurricanes
Cuba’s Meteorological Institute (Insmet) continues to track Hurricane Igor and now Hurricane Julia as they move west-northwest in the Atlantic Ocean. While neither is expected to come anywhere near Cuba or its neighbors, the small island nation of Bermuda could face the brunt of the major storm.
Read MoreCuba to eradicate ozone depleting substances
The UN included Cuba on a list of nine countries with illustrative projects to eliminate the gases that deplete the ozone layer, Nelson Espinosa, director of the Ozone Technical Office (OTOZ), announced. The Caribbean island nation hopes to begin in 2011 the destruction of 130 tons of stored refrigerating gases.
Read MoreSummit Failure on Water, Recipe for Disaster
A weeklong international conference here has transmitted a strong political message to next week’s U.N. summit meeting of world leaders: what good is the fight against poverty, hunger, maternal mortality and child deaths if water and sanitation are not given the high priority they deserve?
Read MoreDivided We Educate
A thin Palestinian boy, no older than ten, darts between the piles of garbage and the congested lines of traffic which converge at the Qalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem.
Read MoreCuba erradicará sustancias agotadoras del ozono
La Organización de Naciones Unidas incluyó a Cuba en la lista de nueve países con proyectos demostrativos para eliminar los gases que agotan la capa de ozono, informó Nelson Espinosa, director de la Oficina Técnica de Ozono. El país caribeño espera comenzar en 2011 la destrucción de 130 toneladas de gases refrigerantes almacenados.
Read MoreCuba’s Union Calls for ‘Unity’ in Face of Layoffs
A half million layoffs in the public sector by the end of March 2011, is one of the most complex and sensitive aspects of the reforms announced by Raul Castro.
Read MoreMassive Layoffs to Begin in Cuba
The Cuban government will begin a program of massive layoffs in the huge public sector of the economy by reducing a half million jobs in the first four months of 2011, announced the Cuban Workers Federation (CTC).
Read MoreRally for the Cuban Five in Barcelona
Dozens of people sympathetic to the Cuban Revolution assembled this past Saturday in front of the Barcelona, Spain city council offices to show their support for the Cuban Five, imprisoned in the United States for the last 12 years. (16 photos)
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