The Cuban capital was able to economize 17 million dollars in 2010 by saving 98.7 gigawatts/hour, announced Inaudys Mora Fonseca, general director of the Electricity Conglomerate in the island’s main city, the only province that met last year’s electricity saving plan established by the authorities.
Read MoreAn attorney from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was the first person to testify in the trial against self-confessed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, the Miami-based El Nuevo Herald reported. Gina Garrett-Jackson interviewed Posada when he entered U.S. territory illegally in 2005. During that conversation the accused denied his links with the bomb attacks in Havana but frequently avoided answering her questions.
Read MoreThe weather for the next three days will be influenced by a cold front that will hit on Wednesday, January 12. Starting Saturday we will feel the influence of a continental high pressure system. The arrival of another cold front is expected on Wednesday, January 19.
Read MoreThe Clear Channel Outdoor Company took down a billboard in the city of Miami that asked for the release of the five Cubans imprisoned in the United States charged with espionage, reported IPS. According to the Miami Herald, the U.S. company said that the billboard did not meet its standards and the decision to take it down does not reflect any political position.
Read MoreCuban Deputy Foreign Minister Dagoberto Rodríguez described as fruitful the fourth round of migration talks between the island and the United States “with the aim of advancing toward the establishment of more effective cooperation mechanisms in the fight against the illegal trafficking of emigrants,” according to the official declaration of the Cuban delegation.
Read MoreRepresentatives of popular movements from Latin America, Europe and Australia will debate until tomorrow alternatives to give a boost to their demands in the midst of the international economic crisis, as part of the 9th International Workshop on emancipating paradigms being held in the Cuban capital.
Read MoreThe National Centre for Sex Education (CENESEX) issued a new announcement for university students interested in being trained in the promotion of sex education, according to a communiqué released in this capital. The persons who enroll will receive, starting next February, classes related to gender, sexual diversity, gender identity and sexual rights, among other subjects.
Read MoreThe Alianza Martiana, a group of Cuban émigrés who live in Florida, placed a billboard in a centrally located street in the city of Miami to demand the release of the five Cubans imprisoned in the United States charged with espionage, whom the island considers heroes of the struggle against terrorism.
Read MoreCuban ballerina Loipa Araujo, one of the so-called four jewels of the National Ballet of Cuba, was awarded the Legion of Honor granted by the French Republic, for having given the “best of herself, of her knowledge, of her philosophy of life in favor of the splendor of French ballet, with her experience and vision to the formation of young dancers,” affirmed Jean Mendelson, ambassador of that European nation to the island.
Read MoreCuban born Guillermo Vidal, 59, was sworn in Tuesday as the new mayor of Denver, Colorado. He came to the US as an eight-year-old along with two brothers, but without their parents, as part of “Operation Peter Pan” that sent children out of Cuba to avoid supposed indoctrination by the revolutionary government of Fidel Castro.
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