Roosevelt Skerrit, the prime minister of the Caribbean island nation of Dominica arrived in Havana early Tuesday heading up a delegation set to attend a meeting of Cuba with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
Read MoreCuba’s Meteorological Institute (Insmet) continues to track Hurricane Igor and now Hurricane Julia as they move west-northwest in the Atlantic Ocean. While neither is expected to come anywhere near Cuba or its neighbors, the small island nation of Bermuda could face the brunt of the major storm.
Read MoreThe UN included Cuba on a list of nine countries with illustrative projects to eliminate the gases that deplete the ozone layer, Nelson Espinosa, director of the Ozone Technical Office (OTOZ), announced. The Caribbean island nation hopes to begin in 2011 the destruction of 130 tons of stored refrigerating gases.
Read MoreLa Organización de Naciones Unidas incluyó a Cuba en la lista de nueve países con proyectos demostrativos para eliminar los gases que agotan la capa de ozono, informó Nelson Espinosa, director de la Oficina Técnica de Ozono. El país caribeño espera comenzar en 2011 la destrucción de 130 toneladas de gases refrigerantes almacenados.
Read MoreThe Cuban government will begin a program of massive layoffs in the huge public sector of the economy by reducing a half million jobs in the first four months of 2011, announced the Cuban Workers Federation (CTC).
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro questioned in one of his usual Reflections published by the island’s state-run press the deportation of gypsy emigrants decreed by the French government. Castro echoed an article in Mexico’s La Jornada daily about the persecution and extermination of that people in Europe throughout history. The leader of the Cuban Revolution questioned the good sense of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and reiterated his criticisms of the UN Security Council for the way it has dealt with the Iranian nuclear issue.
Read MoreCuba 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.
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