We’re now accustomed to waiting for the end of November for the Young Jazz Musicians International Competition (JoJazz). This competition has among its many merits its having promoted this art form that seduces a good part of music students, motivating them to take excursions into traditional jazz styles while also compelling them to search for their own approaches to creativity.
Read MoreAmong the movies competing in this 32nd International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Cuba is presenting four films: Fernando Perez’s José Martí: el ojo del canario; Casa Vieja, by Lester Hamlet; Larga Distancia, by Esteban Insausti; and Boleto al Paraíso, by Gerardo Chijona. The festival gets underway on Dec. 2 and runs through the 12th.
Read MoreThe 50th National Baseball Series will begin in Cuba on Sunday, with a game between the Industriales, last season’s champs hailing from the capital city, and Villa Clara, the runner-ups, at the Latin American Stadium in this capital, reported IPS. Baseball is Cuba’s national sport and pride of the island at international tournaments. Recently the national team finished second at the World Cup qualifier in Puerto Rico and won the Intercontinental Championship in Taiwan.
Read MoreCuba and Azerbaijan will strengthen their cooperation in informatics and communications, the press reported after the meeting between the Azerbaijan minister of information and communications technology, Ali Abbasov, and Cuban Deputy Minister Manuel López García during the 2010 Bakutel Fair, held in the capital of the Asian country, reported IPS.
Read More“Cuba is prepared to take advantage of China’s development experience in reform and opening,” affirmed Ricardo Alarcón, speaker of the National Assembly of People’s Power (parliament), during a meeting in Beijing with his Chinese counterpart Wu Bangguo. The island’s government has begun a series of changes officially described as “updating of socialism,” reported IPS.
Read MoreThe Cuban government will increase the supply and amount of some products in the retail network of shops to meet the demand of self-employment, which should grow in 2011 with the opening of new licenses, sources from the Ministry of Economy and Planning announced. Tools and food such as rice and eggs are some of the products to be sold.
Read MoreThe Cuban Postal Company decided to temporarily suspend the sending of postal packages to the United States, where only regular and certified correspondence that does not contain any type of object will be able to be sent. The measure comes after the announcement of exceptional security measures taken by the US Postal Service in the face of recent terrorist threats in that country, limiting the reception of packages that weigh over 16 ounces.
Read MoreCuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez was recognized with the ALBA Arts Prize, which the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) awards every year, the Cuban media reported. Cuban Minister of Culture Abel Prieto highlighted the “unquestionable work for the cultural emancipation and integration of Our America” of Rodríguez and Venezuelan Luis Britto, Literature Prize winner.
Read MoreThe archbishop of the Cuban capital, Jaime Ortega, will arrive today in Spain where he will meet with Foreign Minister Trinidad Jiménez, sources from the Foreign Ministry of that European country reported. Cardinal Ortega, together with former Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, was one of the architects of the negotiation with the island’s government that has made it possible to release the majority of the political prisoners tried in 2003.
Read MoreThe urban and suburban agriculture programmes will be extended to 156 of the 169 municipalities of Cuba before the close of the year, said Adolfo Rodriguez, head of the National Group in charge of that initiative, which until now has 36,000 farms throughout the island. The Caribbean country’s authorities are promoting the local production of food to reduce imports, estimated at more than two billion dollars.
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