Pope 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.
Read MoreThe maximum temperatures in Havana will fluctuate between 26°C (79°F) and 29°C (84°F), and the minimum temperatures will drop to around 18°C (64°F). Occasional rainfall is predicted for Thursday and Friday and then again on Monday.
Read MoreIn March there will be rains close to or below the historic average in Cuba, which could intensify the crisis in the distribution of water in the island’s capital, notes the Climate Center of the Institute of Meteorology. The lack of precipitation is due to the presence of the La Niña or Aenos phenomenon, which cools the surface water of the Equatorial Pacific Ocean.
Read MoreCuba’s government again increased the price of gasoline and diesel by between four and eight per cent. This is the second hike in six months, after last September the Ministry of Finance and Prices responded to the rise in oil prices on the international market with another increase.
Read MoreThe objective of the lifting of restrictions on travel to Cuba and the sending of remittances to the island is not to please the Raul Castro government, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton affirmed in a hearing of the House of Representatives’ Foreign Relations Committee. Clinton reiterated Washington’s commitment to back the Cuban dissidence with some 20 million dollars.
Read MoreFive members of the National Ballet of Cuba left the company after a performance in the city of Montreal, Canada, The Montreal Gazette daily reported. One of the dancers, young Elier Bourzac, said to the press that he wished to incursion into other dance styles and work with international choreographers.
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