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Cuba Center: TS Richard Aims for Belize

Cuba’s Meteorolocial Insitute (INSMET) reports on Sunday that Tropical Storm Richard, with near hurricane force winds, is heading for a landing in Belize sometime on late Sunday or early Monday.

Cuba’s MDs & Cholera in Haiti

Hundreds of Cuban doctors have been in Haiti long before, during and after the January 2010 earthquake that devastated parts of the Caribbean nation. Now a cholera outbreak that has quickly killed over 200 people will put the local and foreign medical staff to test in the coming months. Fear is great of the dangerous disease spreading to the sprawling earthquake refugee camps. Ansel Herz reports from Port-au-Prince for Inter Press Service on the outbreak reaching the Haitian capital.

Cuba Has Easy Win to Start Intercontinental Cup

Cuba won its opening game of the Intercontinental Cup 18-0 in a miss-match vs. the Czech Republic on Saturday in Taiwan.

Cuba Has TS Richard Near Honduras

Tropical Storm Richard is now blowing at 100 kph (62 mph) as it moves along the northeastern coastline of Honduras, reports the Cuban Meteorological Institute (INSMET) at noon on Saturday EST.

Cuba Website on Wikileaks Revelations

Cubadebate.cu, a widely visited Cuban website in Spanish only, is giving ample coverage to the Wikileaks publication of nearly 400,000 classified US government documents with links to numerous English language publications and videos with interviews and analysis on the revelations.

Havana Times: We’ve Made it to Year Two!

Without any publicity effort, relying on word of mouth and the search engines, Havana Times now occupies an important space in the online press on Cuba, providing a voice to numerous individuals who care about the island and its future. Havana Times remains visible for the relatively small segment of the population in Cuba that has Internet, as the censors have not classified us as part of the dissident blogger world. E-mail has also proven a good way for readers on the island without Internet to receive our articles and even the posted comments.

Cuba’s Chucho Valdes at Lincoln Center NY

Cuba’s famed jazz pianist/composer Chucho Valdes and his new band the Afro-Cuban Messengers are performing tonight and Saturday at the Jazz at Lincoln Center venue in New York City.

Cuba Experts Say TS Richard Stronger

Tropical Storm Richard has picked up in intensity as it continues to move slowly in the western Caribbean, notes Cuba’s Meteorological Institutute (INSMET) on Friday evening.

Cuba Extends Cacao Cultivation

Cuba expects to obtain new cacao harvests in five years as a result of the planting of new plantations in the Guamuhaya Mountains, in the central province of Cienfuegos, by farmer women from one of the area’s co-ops, said Raúl Chaviano, assistant director of the Eladio Machín Agricultural Industrial Company.

Church announces release of another five prisoners

The Cuban government will release another five prisoners who will travel to Spain in the next few days, the Catholic Church announced. Four men and a woman make up this group, the majority sentenced for piracy and terrorism crimes. The decision confirms the interest of the island’s authorities to extend the releases beyond the opposition members arrested in 2003.