Norge Luis Vera went seven innings allowing only one unearned run and Michel Enriquez, Yorbis Borroto, Ariel Pestano and Hector Olivera led the Cuba’s offense in a 9-1 win to open the Pan American/World Cup Qualifying Tournament underway in Puerto Rico.
Read MoreArchbishop of Havana Jaime Ortega considered this Friday that there is a “positive” turn in the changes taken on by the government of President Raúl Castro to overcome the economic difficulties, although he admitted that some measures lead to worrying elements. “The process…is beginning and we don’t know how it is going to develop. However, I am sure there has been a change in direction in terms of stating Cuba’s economic difficulties and how to overcome them,” which is “in itself positive,” Cardinal Ortega said to a group of journalists.
Read MoreCuba will build three new mooring terminals and another for supertankers to add to the five that already exist in the port of Cienfuegos, 230 kilometers east of the Cuban capital, Luis Medina, of the National Port Authority.
Read MoreOnly 2.9 per cent of the persons who were surveyed said they had been able to have direct access to the Internet in the last year and the majority used that service at their study or workplaces, according to a report published by the National Office of Statistics (ONE). The sample, according to which only 5.9 per cent had access from their homes, was carried out between February and April 2010 in some 38,000 Cuban homes.
Read MoreTeam Cuba opens its play in the Pan American Games and World Cup qualifier tonight in Ponce, Puerto Rico at 7:30 p.m. versus Venezuela. Cuban Baseball expert Peter C. Bjarkman will be reporting direct from Puerto Rico for HT readers.
Read MoreEcuador’s President Rafael Correa, is back in his offices late Thursday as a police uprising in the afternoon appears to have been squashed. The 47-year old Correa returned after being rescued from the hospital where he was held up after being attacked by the police.
Read MoreA network of Cuban activists issued a strong condemnation of the coup de état underway Thursday in Ecuador. “We recognize the people as a source of justice, and for that reason we put ourselves alongside ecuadorians. We denounce the cowardly aggression against those in that sister country who struggle to stop the violence of the police involved n the coup,” stated the Critical Observatory Network.
Read MoreThe Cuban government expressed its disappointment over the performance of U.S. President Barack Obama, who has not used his prerogatives to modify the policy toward the island, especially the economic blockade, according to a communiqué of the Cuban mission to the UN.
Read MoreThe presence of high levels of lead in blood affects the behaviour and learning of Cuban students in primary education, according to a research carried out among children from the municipality of Centro Habana, in the Cuban capital.
Read MoreThe rains associated to tropical depression sixteen mitigated the difficult situation of the reservoirs in the centre and east of Cuba, depressed because of the acute drought, sources from the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources reported. Just the Zaza Dam, the country’s largest, incorporated around 133 million cubic metres, an amount that will increase in the next few hours with the water flowing in from the rivers that feed it.
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