The Cuban government will release another 10 political prisoners, among them Oscar Elías Bicet, who decided to remain on the island, the Havana Archbishopric announced. With the release of Bicet, only three of the 75 dissidents tried in 2003 remain in prison.
Read MoreThe arrival of a cold front on Friday afternoon will result in rains that are expected to continue until dawn on Saturday the 12th. The rest of the week we’ll experience good weather due to the influence of high pressures.
Read MoreA 3.5 degrees magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale was registered yesterday in the south of the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, the Central Station of the National Seismological Service of Cuba reported. The quake was the second this year on the island. Since the earthquake in Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, the Cuban authorities decided to increase the information coverage and preparation for a possible earthquake.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro questioned the policy of the United States and the European Union toward Libya, after on previous years President Muammar al-Gaddafi accepted disarmament and several European heads of government visited Tripoli. In one of his usual Reflections, Castro reiterated his opposition to a war in the African country and the intervention of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Read MoreCuba should increase the energy saving measures to face the oil price hike, Rafael Tenreiro, assistant director of the state-run Cuba Petróleo (CUPET) oil company, affirmed. “The international situation is of much uncertainty,” and “it is impossible to predict how much more the prices will go up,” the official said. The island produces half of the fuel it needs and the rest is imported from Venezuela at preferential prices.
Read MoreCuban immigration authorities gave exit permits to 13 relatives of Orlando Zapata, the dissident who died in February 2010 after a hunger strike, so they can travel to the United States as political refugees, announced Reina Tamayo, the dissident’s mother.
Read MoreThe US government authorized eight airports to offer charter flights to and from Cuba, the US Customs and Border Protection services reported. Before that, only Miami, New York and Los Angeles had air links with the island. Those benefitting by the new exceptions in the travel ban include Cuban Americans in general as well as academics, students, artists and organized groups with educational and religious ends.
Read MoreForty-three per cent of the places set aside by the Ministry of Higher Education for the next school year will be for pedagogy careers, announced René Sánchez, director of the ministry’s enrolment and labor placement. Meanwhile, according to the official, the careers in humanities will decrease due to a lesser demand for labor force in that area.
Read MoreA new cultural center dedicated to The Beatles was opened in the Havana district of El Vedado, just a few meters from the park where there is a statue of John Lennon. The installation, named El submarino amarillo (The Yellow Submarine) is a tribute to a song by the British group, and will offer music from the 1960s and 70s.
Read MoreThe airport of the US city of Tampa was authorized by the Barack Obama administration to carry out flights to Cuba, according to the Chamber of Commerce of that city, where a community of around 100,000 persons of Cuban origin live. Cuban-Americans can travel freely to Cuba while ordinary US citizens need a special license from the US Treasury Dept. to legally visit the island.
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