The 2010-2011 school year begins in Cuba on Monday. More than 2.1 million students —of the country’s total population of 11.2 million— will be in the classrooms. As a result of the impact of the international economic crisis on the country the island’s authorities have had to introduce reforms such as the creation of school facilities with several educational levels and greatly reduce boarding schools in the countryside.
Read MoreThe International Committee to Free the Cuban 5 notes that September 12 marks twelve years in US prisons for the five men accused of conspiracy to commit espionage and other crimes. Cuba maintains their mission in the US was penetrating terrorist groups operating out of Miami to gather information that would prevent attacks against Cuba.
Read MoreOne source of regular readers of HT are some of the 55-65 year olds who were sent without their parents from Havana to Miami in the early 1960s as young children or teenagers. This group which was said to surpass 14,000 in the airlift promoted by the Catholic Church in coordination with the US State Dept.
Read MoreHAVANA TIMES, Sept. 4 — On Friday morning Fidel Castro addressed thousands of Cuban students and professors on the steps
Read MoreCuba’s Fidel Castro continued on Friday morning his campaign of alert of an imminent new war in the Middle East. He spoke to students and professors on the steps of the University of Havana and centered his speech on a call for US President Obama to avoid setting off a war against Iran with nuclear consequences.
Read MoreThe ruling Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) has the will to “advance in a very clear way in that process of transformations and economic and social reforms,” Leire Pajín, secretary of the Spanish Workers Socialist Party (PSOE), in power in Spain since 2004, affirmed in statements to the press after meeting with Jorge Martí, head of international relations of the PCC.
Read MoreThe Brutal Rock Fest will begin today in the island’s capital with the participation of six metal groups from France and Switzerland, and four Cuban bands, which will perform in the Maxim Rock Theatre and in the city of Pinar del Río, sources from the event’s Organizing Committee announced. The musical event is sponsored by the Cuban Rock Agency, the French Brutal Beastdown Records label and the Swiss association Vrockal Metal Fest.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro will address students on the steps of the University of Havana on Friday morning at 7:30 a.m., the local press announced on Thursday. It will be the first open-air public speech by Castro since July 2006 when he came close to death with serious intestinal surgery.
Read MoreAroldis Chapman picked up his first Major League Baseball victory for the Cincinnati Reds against the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday night, in his second day up from the minors. To get it he repeated his one inning scoreless relief effort of Tuesday.
Read MoreTropical Storm Gaston is the latest in a series of storms to form in the Atlantic. It follows Danielle, the major Hurricane Earl that currently threatens the United States mid-Atlantic seaboard, and TS Fiona, which is considerably weaker and on a northerly path towards Bermuda.
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