Cuba’s Women’s volleyball team got off to a good start on Sunday against powerhouse Brazil, winning the first set in their World Volleyball Championship second round match. However, the Brazilian superiority took charge to win the next three
Read MoreXiomara Reyes visited the Centro Pro-danza de Cuba to meet with her former teacher and director of the institution, Laura Alonso. Reyes, a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, is in Cuba after an 18 absence.
Read MoreThe Netherlands women’s volleyball team had a surprisingly easy time in defeating Cuba three sets to one in their first match of the second round of the World Championships being played in Japan.
Read MoreThe passing of Hurricane Tomas through the Winward Strait close to far eastern Guantanamo, Cuba left no fatal victims nor considerable material damage reported thus far, said Civil Defense authorities.
Read MoreThe U.S. government ruled out a possible exchange of contractor Alan Gross, detained in Cuba since December 2009, for Cuban Gerardo Hernández, who is serving a double life sentence in the U.S., or another of the five members of a Cuban intelligence network dismantled in 1998, according to a letter of the Departments of State and of Justice to Republican Representative Lincoln Díaz-Balart.
Read MoreCitrus cultivation, the former symbol of the Isle of Youth, the second largest of the Cuban archipelago, is in a deep crisis, reported IPS. That sector’s cultivation areas have been affected by plagues, hurricanes and the spread of the marabú weed, in addition to organizational deficiencies, Camilo Company Azcuy, director of the Comandante Jesús Montané Oropesa Citrus Agro-industrial Company.
Read MoreCuba’s Aeronautic Institute has released the passenger list for the ill-fated Aerocaribbean flight that crashed late Thursday afternoon leaving no survivors of the 68 persons on board.
Read MoreA hurricane alert is now in effect for three of Cuba’s easternmost provinces as Tropical Storm moves north-northeast from its present location just southeast of Jamaica, informed the Cuban Civil Defense authorities on Thursday.
Read MoreA passenger plane crashed in central Cuba with 68 persons aboard late Thursday afternoon reported the island’s TV and online media. The plane was flying on the route from Santiago de Cuba to Havana and there was no word of possible survivors.
Read MoreTropical Storm Tomas could cross Cuba’s eastern tip between tonight and the early morning hours of tomorrow, according to the forecast of the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Tomas maintains winds of 85 kilometers per hour and it is expected it will cause heavy rains, with between 100 and more than 200 millimeters, reported IPS. The Cuban Meteorology Institute (Insmet) will issue its next report at 6:00 p.m. EST.
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