Only 2.9 per cent of the persons who were surveyed said they had been able to have direct access to the Internet in the last year and the majority used that service at their study or workplaces, according to a report published by the National Office of Statistics (ONE). The sample, according to which only 5.9 per cent had access from their homes, was carried out between February and April 2010 in some 38,000 Cuban homes.
Read MoreTeam Cuba opens its play in the Pan American Games and World Cup qualifier tonight in Ponce, Puerto Rico at 7:30 p.m. versus Venezuela. Cuban Baseball expert Peter C. Bjarkman will be reporting direct from Puerto Rico for HT readers.
Read MoreEcuador’s President Rafael Correa, is back in his offices late Thursday as a police uprising in the afternoon appears to have been squashed. The 47-year old Correa returned after being rescued from the hospital where he was held up after being attacked by the police.
Read MoreA network of Cuban activists issued a strong condemnation of the coup de état underway Thursday in Ecuador. “We recognize the people as a source of justice, and for that reason we put ourselves alongside ecuadorians. We denounce the cowardly aggression against those in that sister country who struggle to stop the violence of the police involved n the coup,” stated the Critical Observatory Network.
Read MoreThe Cuban government expressed its disappointment over the performance of U.S. President Barack Obama, who has not used his prerogatives to modify the policy toward the island, especially the economic blockade, according to a communiqué of the Cuban mission to the UN.
Read MoreThe presence of high levels of lead in blood affects the behaviour and learning of Cuban students in primary education, according to a research carried out among children from the municipality of Centro Habana, in the Cuban capital.
Read MoreThe rains associated to tropical depression sixteen mitigated the difficult situation of the reservoirs in the centre and east of Cuba, depressed because of the acute drought, sources from the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources reported. Just the Zaza Dam, the country’s largest, incorporated around 133 million cubic metres, an amount that will increase in the next few hours with the water flowing in from the rivers that feed it.
Read MoreSixty-six per cent of the adolescents who answered a survey carried out in the schools of the municipality of San José de las Lajas, in the province of Havana, had consumed alcoholic beverages, a figure considered worrisome because it reveals the early beginning of “a possible addiction that unquestionably has an influence on and damages biological, psychological and social development.” The research, published by Havana’s Revista de Ciencias Médicas medical journal, also warned about the proportion of girls and female adolescents, “given that it is recognized in literature as the least tolerant and at greatest risk” for this population group
Read MoreMural in tourist installation HAVANA, Sept. 29 – The number of tourist arrivals to Cuba up to last August increased 1.8 per cent as compared to a similar period in 2009, but the principal tourist markets, headed by Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and Germany, reported a tendency to decrease, balanced out by the increase of other non-traditional markets such as Russia, according to a report by the National Office of Statistics.
Read MoreCuba has made efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) related to children and adolescents, despite limited resources, José Juan Ortiz, UNICEF representative in the island, highlighted. “The idea is political will more than technological development or monetary power; of awareness that the Millennium Development Goals are in our hands, from and by the new generations,” the official said.
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