The lack of sugarcane and the irregularities in the yield of the sugar mills could do away with the plans of the Cuban authorities for the current harvest, the island’s state-run press warned today. The results in 2010 of the former flourishing sugar industry were the worse in more than a century.
Read MoreForest fires in Cuba left considerable losses in 2010, the National Headquarters of the Forest Rangers Corps reported. According to the source, human actions were the principal cause of the burning of 5,000 hectares last year.
Read MoreThe trial of US citizen Alan Gross for “acts against the integrity and independence” of Cuba began Friday morning in Havana. The 61-year-old Maryland resident could face up to 20 years in prison for his part in a US government program to promote regime change in Cuba.
Read MoreHere is the cultural calendar for March 2011 put out by the Cuba Absolutely website. It includes happenings in music, dance, theater and the visual arts, etc. in the Cuban capital.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro reaffirmed his forecasts about an “inevitable military intervention that will take place in Libya,” in one of his usual Reflections published by the island’s state-run press. Castro criticized U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for sprinkling “a great deal of fuel on the fire” and accused the United States and its European allies of wanting to take advantage of the civil war in that African country.
Read MorePope Benedict XVI named Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega as member of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, which advises the churches in the continent, reported IPS, quoting the Miami-based El Nuevo Herald. Ortega has been the government’s principal interlocutor in the negotiations for the release of political prisoners, which began in 2010.
Read MoreStudents from the U.S. St. Paul’s school, as part of the Choir and String Ensemble of that study centre, will give a concert next March 12 in Havana’s Basilica Minor of the San Francisco de Asís Convent.
Read MoreThe Dutch KLM Airline Company will carry out three weekly flights between Havana and Amsterdam starting October 31, the French Air Journal site reported. The flights will transport a maximum of 285 passengers. KLM currently links the Netherlands with 68 destinations in the rest of the world.
Read MoreOn Friday, 61-year-old Maryland resident Alan Gross will be in the limelight as Cuba tries him for “Actions Against the Independence and Territorial Integrity of the State,” considered a very serious offense on the Caribbean island.
Read MoreCuba has a special program for the education and protection of adolescence, underlined José Juan Ortiz, UNICEF representative on the island, when presenting in this capital the annual statistical report of that agency, titled Adolescence: A Time of Opportunities.
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