Professor Marta Hernández was elected president of the Cuban capital’s Provincial Assembly of People’s Power, replacing Juan Contino, who had been heading the Havana city hall for eight years. Hernández, born in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba, is a member of the ruling Communist Party.
Read MoreCuba’s agriculture authorities will try to re-launch in the next five years coffee production on the island, which dropped from 60,000 tons in 1961 to ten times less at present. The collapse of this sector is due, among other reasons, to the lack of qualified labour force, the poor care of the crops and insufficient payment to producers.
Read MoreThe Cuban medical brigade deployed in Haiti has treated 30 per cent of the persons with cholera in that Caribbean country, Lorenzo Somarriba, chief of the medical mission. Last year the Cuban doctors saw 1.7 million patients and they are present in dozens of health installations of the Haitian healthcare system.
Read MoreCuba’s agricultural and food industry authorities expect this year’s tomato harvest will meet the demand of the canning industry and distribution in the markets. In 2010 the island had to resort to imports to supplement its needs, while in 2009 it lost a great deal of the harvest due to problems with collection and distribution.
Read MoreCuba’s state-run television will broadcast tonight a documentary on the U.S. backing for the creation of informatics networks outside the control of the island’s authorities, in another chapter of the series Las razones de Cuba (Cuba’s Reasons), which last Feb. 26 revealed the infiltration of state security agents into opposition groups like Ladies in White.
Read MoreCuba will dedicate the next International Book Fair in 2012 to the cultures of the Caribbean countries, Minister of Culture Abel Prieto announced during the closing of this year’s event in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba. The most widely attended annual event on the island on this occasion was visited by around 2.3 million persons.
Read MoreWestern Division leader Cienfuegos swept its three game weekend series from Eastern contender Guantanamo to pull seven games ahead of the second place La Habana with only 15 games left in the regular 90 game season.
Read MoreThe trial in Cuba of US citizen Alan Gross, charged with “Actions Against the Independence and Territorial Integrity of the State,” concluded on Saturday and a verdict is expected in the coming days or weeks. The 61-year-old Maryland resident’s wife Judy, an attorney and US Interests Section officials attended the two-day trial in the Cuban capital.
Read MoreExplosions went off at a Revolutionary Armed Forces ammunition dump on the outskirts of Havana in Santiago de las Vegas on Saturday night. The blasts were heard shortly after 8:00 p.m. and residents in the nearby area were immediately evacuated without victims being reported, reported the official Cuban TV.
Read MoreAlberto Granado a biochemistry doctor, writer and scientist died in Havana on Saturday at the age of 88. Granado, the founder of the Santiago de Cuba School of Medicine, is widely known for his trip around South America with Ernesto “Che” Guevara in 1952.
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