Cuba won a tough fought straight set victory over Thailand (25-19, 29-27, 27-25) on Tuesday in the Women’s World Volleyball Championships being played in Japan. With the win the Cubans are now 2-2 and face group leader USA in their final first round match on Wednesday.
Read MoreA year after Havana Times began publishing a Spanish language version and two years from the website’s beginning the percentage of readers from Cuba, Spain and Latin America is on the rise.
Read MoreThe 28th International Havana Trade Fair (FIHAV), the island’s principal commercial mart, will begin today in Expocuba fairgrounds on the outskirts of the Cuban capital, the local press reported. The event is being attended by representatives from more than 400 Cuban entities and from the business sector in 58 countries.
Read MoreThe underwater fibre-optic cable that will join Cuba to Venezuela will finally start being laid next January and will be operational in July 2011, Waldo Reboredo, vice president of the Gran Caribe Telecommunications joint venture, affirmed. This link will allow the island to increase by 3,000 the current speed of data, image and voice broadcasting.
Read MoreRepresentatives of the Cuban opposition expect the island’s government will keep its promise and release the 13 dissidents who remain in prison, out of the 75 who were arrested in 2003, IPS reported. Out of this group at least six have expressed their wish to remain in the country and continue their political activities, instead of travelling to Spain, according to the agreement with Madrid and the Catholic Church.
Read MoreThe Cuban women’s volleyball team won their first match after two losses at the World Championships by edging Kazakhstan three sets to two (25-20 15-25 25-27 25-23 10-15) on Sunday.
Read MoreCuba returned to standard time early Sunday. Clocks fell back an hour at 1:00 a.m. The east coast of the United States will follow suit on next Sunday, November 7th and regain the same time as Cuba.
Read MoreHurricane Tomas weakened on Sunday as it heads for the central Caribbean, noted Cuba’s Meteorology Institute (INSMET) at 6:00 p.m. EST. Nonetheless, the storm is expected to gain strength again by mid-week and continues to bode a threat to Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Read MoreAlfredo Morales Cartaya, Cuba’s former minister of Labor and Social Security died on Saturday in Havana after suffering a heart attack. Morales Cartaya, 62, was a member of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and also a member of the country’s parliament. He was previously the secretary general of the Cuban Worker’s Federation (CTC).
Read MoreThe government of Norway gave Cuba a donation of 850,000 dollars to purchase medical supplies to be used by the medical contingent deployed by the island in Haiti after last January 12’s earthquake.
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