Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez defended “the building of a new international economic and political order, based on the principles of solidarity, social justice, equity and respect for the rights of peoples and each human being,” when speaking during the UN General Assembly’s High-level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals.
Read MoreFifty-four per cent of the land handed over in usufruct in Cuba since September 2008 is still unproductive, Pedro Olivera, director of the National Land Control Centre, said. Specialists in agricultural matters point out that the process has confronted bureaucratic obstacles, despite the government’s interest in reducing food imports, which amount to two billion dollars a year.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro met with the members of the Japanese Peace Boat that arrived today in the Cuban capital’s port, the local press reported. This ship represents the nongovernmental organization founded in Tokyo in 1983, whose mission is to carry a message of peace throughout the world.
Read MoreBrazil is willing to help Cuba in the development of small and medium-sized businesses, capable of assuming the half million persons who will be jobless in the state sector in the coming months, Celso Amorim, that South American country’s foreign minister, affirmed. Last Saturday he met with President Raúl Castro.
Read MoreThe intake of alcoholic beverages has a direct relationship to violence and especially to homicides, according to a research published in the magazine of the Havana Psychiatric Hospital. The study, that covered 71 cases processed by the Forensic Psychiatry service of that health institution, revealed that more than half of the victimizers had drank alcohol before committing their crimes.
Read MoreThe Cuban government will include the use of water among the economic planning indicators with the aim of encouraging the rational use of this resource in the agricultural and industrial sector and by the population, Minister of Agriculture Gustavo Rodríguez Rollero announced. The island has been affected in recent years by long droughts that have decreased its water reserves.
Read MoreThe flow of Cuban emigrants to Ecuador decreased by 33 per cent in the first nine months of 2010 as compared to the same period last year, the media in the South American country reported. According to Ecuador’s Migration Police, more than 8,000 persons from the island have decided to stay in the Andean nation since 2006.
Read MoreCuba hopes to multiply by 10 the production of monoclonal antibodies against cancer after the conclusion of the adjustment process and start up of the new plant of the Molecular Immunology Centre (CIM), located in the scientific hub west of the island’s capital, David Curbelo Rodríguez, director of the installation, announced. According to the specialist, one of the fundamental aims is to meet the demand for Nimotuzumab, which reduces advanced tumours of the brain, head and esophagus.
Read MoreYadira Garcia, 54, one of the highest ranking female cabinet members of the government of Raul Castro, was removed from her post as Minister of Basic Industries, informed the local press on Monday.
Read MoreCuban President Raúl Castro and his brother Fidel should work “so that the Revolution is not left in the air and a group of opportunists who are already (close to them) in power do not take over” the island, singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés, one of the founders of the New Song Movement, said in an interview published by Brazil’s OEstado de Sao Paulo daily.
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