The Cuban authorities will try to make more efficient the sugar harvest through the introduction of Brazilian harvesters, global positioning systems (GPS) and the reorganization of cane transportation, among other experimental measures designed to modernize that sector, said sources from the Ministry of the Sugar Industry.
Read MoreCuban dancer and choreographer Carlos Acosta was awarded the 2011 National Dance Prize, Iván Tenorio, president of the jury, announced. Acosta, born in 1973, is a guest artist of the Royal Ballet of London; the American Ballet Theatre, of New York; and the Kirov Ballet, of Saint Petersburg.
Read MoreTo the chagrin of the home team fans Granma and Pinar del Rio blasted their way to first game wins on Wednesday in the Cuban baseball semifinal playoffs.
Read MoreRenown Cuban playwright and director Hector Quintero died Wednesday in Havana at the age of 68. A Havana native, Quintero’s intense artistic career spanned theater, radio, TV and cinema.
Read MoreFor the whole period we will be under the influence of high pressures, which means we will have good weather and a low probability of the occurrence of rain. The maximum temperatures will fluctuate between 31°C (88 F) and 33°C (91 F), and the minimum temperatures will be around the 22°C (72°F).
Read MoreCuba expects to drill five oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico this summer with the participation of foreign companies, Manuel Marrero, specialist with the Ministry of Basic Industry, announced during the International Earth Sciences Convention, being held in the island’s capital. According to Marrero, it is estimated that there is a reserve of between five and nine billion barrels of crude in Cuban waters.
Read MoreCuba demanded the banning of nuclear weapons and the end of the arms race in space in statements by its representative to the U.N., Rodolfo Benítez. The Cuban diplomat recommended that military spending, amounting to 1.5 trillion dollars, be used in the struggle against poverty.
Read MoreFarms in urban and suburban areas have doubled in Cuba in the last three years in almost all the country’s municipalities, reported IPS. With that initiative the authorities hope to increase the deficit in food production and improve its distribution in the cities.
Read MoreCuban pianist Harold Lopez Nussa, 26, won the prestigious French Adami “Talents Jazz 2011” award on Monday in Paris.
Read MoreThe schedule for Cuba’s baseball semifinal playoff games was announced on Tuesday. The action kicks off on Wednesday when Granma opens its best-of-seven series in Ciego de Avila in the Eastern Division and Pinar del Rio travels to Cienfuegos to light the Western Division fireworks.
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