The underwater fibre-optic cable that will join Cuba to Venezuela will finally start being laid next January and will be operational in July 2011, Waldo Reboredo, vice president of the Gran Caribe Telecommunications joint venture, affirmed. This link will allow the island to increase by 3,000 the current speed of data, image and voice broadcasting.
Read MoreRepresentatives of the Cuban opposition expect the island’s government will keep its promise and release the 13 dissidents who remain in prison, out of the 75 who were arrested in 2003, IPS reported. Out of this group at least six have expressed their wish to remain in the country and continue their political activities, instead of travelling to Spain, according to the agreement with Madrid and the Catholic Church.
Read MoreThe Cuban women’s volleyball team won their first match after two losses at the World Championships by edging Kazakhstan three sets to two (25-20 15-25 25-27 25-23 10-15) on Sunday.
Read MoreCuba returned to standard time early Sunday. Clocks fell back an hour at 1:00 a.m. The east coast of the United States will follow suit on next Sunday, November 7th and regain the same time as Cuba.
Read MoreHurricane Tomas weakened on Sunday as it heads for the central Caribbean, noted Cuba’s Meteorology Institute (INSMET) at 6:00 p.m. EST. Nonetheless, the storm is expected to gain strength again by mid-week and continues to bode a threat to Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Read MoreAlfredo Morales Cartaya, Cuba’s former minister of Labor and Social Security died on Saturday in Havana after suffering a heart attack. Morales Cartaya, 62, was a member of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and also a member of the country’s parliament. He was previously the secretary general of the Cuban Worker’s Federation (CTC).
Read MoreThe government of Norway gave Cuba a donation of 850,000 dollars to purchase medical supplies to be used by the medical contingent deployed by the island in Haiti after last January 12’s earthquake.
Read MoreCuba will be able to have unrestricted access to the financing of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of that international organization and currently on a visit to the island, announced. The Caribbean island nation has the lowest prevalence rate of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, which causes AIDS) in the Caribbean.
Read MoreCuba got great pitching from starter Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez and Jonder Martinez, and clutch hitting from Yorbis Borroto and Alexei Bell to beat Holland 4-1 and win the Intercontinental Cup in Taiwan.
Read MorePopular Cuban singer/songwriter Pablo Milanes will make his first tour of the island in 22 years starting on November 6-16 in Eastern Cuba. Milanes will offer open air concerts in plazas.
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