Cuba registered in the months of June and August the highest temperature averages since 1951, reported IPS. Due to climate change, during the last 40 years the island has experienced an increase of 0.6 degrees Celsius in the mean temperature, while droughts have become more prolonged and the frequency of intense hurricanes has increased.
Read MoreCuba’s state-run television will begin broadcasting on September 19 an elementary course on seismology in the University for All space, with the aim of teaching the population about the fundamental characteristics of earthquakes and how to face their effects, the local press reported. The island’s authorities have increased the preparation against earthquakes after the telluric movement that devastated Haiti last January 12.
Read MoreCuba’s national baseball team continues its preparations for the 2010 Pan-American Baseball Tournament to take place in Puerto Rico on October 1-12. The short list had its first cut on Sunday and 33 players remain training for the 24 available slots.
Read MoreCuba remains far off the projected route of the massive Hurricane Igor and even farther from the foreseen course of the recently formed Tropical Storm Julia. The projections from the National Hurricane Center are a relief for travelers to the Caribbean island as well as locals.
Read MoreHurricane Igor jumped from a Category 1 to a Category 4 storm on Sunday and now packs maximum sustained winds of 220 kph (140 mph) at 6:00 p.m. EST. No threat to Cuba is thus far being projected by the Cuban Meteorological Institute.
Read MoreThe European Union (EU) could again postpone the review of its Common Position on Cuba, announced for October 25, Catherine Ashton, the bloc’s high commissioner for foreign relations, admitted. The review of that policy was postponed last June at the request of Spain, whose government is promoting a new framework for ties with the Caribbean island nation.
Read MoreCuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez said in his blog Segunda cita that he agreed with “reverting the mistakes” made by the Revolution. Rodríguez, one of the founders of the New Song Movement, said he was in favor of “eradicating authoritarianism and building a solid, efficient socialist democracy, whose functioning can always be perfected, that guarantees itself.” Moreover, he highlighted the rights that the socialist system has given to the Cuban population, “dignity and sovereignty, as well as health, education, culture and an honorable old age for all.
Read MoreIgor is the name of the latest Atlantic region hurricane this season and while it is still far from the Caribbean, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami map its course as headed far to the north of Cuba and Florida.
Read MoreThe Spanish government is not against political prisoners who have been received in that country traveling to the United States, Juan Pablo Laiglesia, secretary of state for Foreign and Iberian-American Affairs, affirmed. The official reiterated the authorities’ will to accept the island’s opposition members and offer them the necessary attention for their integration into Spanish society.
Read MoreFidel Castro said on Friday that he was accurately quoted but misinterpreted in the preview of an in-depth interview conducted in Cuba by US journalist Jeffrey Goldberg.
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