On Wednesday, June 30, at 2 pm the full House Committee on Agriculture will hold a business meeting to consider H.R. 4645, the Travel Restriction Reform and Export Enhancement Act, which would facilitate agricultural sales to Cuba and restore the right of all US-Americans to travel to the island.
Read MoreAlthough it hasn’t, and may not, reach tropical storm or hurricane status, the Cuban Weather Institute is tracking a storm moving south of the island that has so far brought some precipitation to the western Caribbean.
Read MoreCuba’s Civil Defense authorities announced the beginning today of two days of drills under the second stage of “Meteoro 2010”. Top level civil defense leaders will take part from the municipal to national level in planning to deal with large intensity earthquakes and tsunamis.
Read MoreVice President Esteban Lazo is heading the Cuban delegation to the Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), whose second high-level segment will begin today in the Ecuadoran city of Otavalo, reported IPS. The meeting will focus on indigenous and Afro-descendant populations in the region.
Read MoreCooperation in the fight against drug trafficking between Cuba and the United States made it possible to dismantle 19 operations in the last decade, said Yoandrys González, head of operational cooperation of the Technical Police of the Cuban Ministry of Interior. Both nations punctually collaborate in each case through communications between the coast guard services and a liaison at the US Interests Section on the island.
Read MoreCuban dissident Guillermo farinas has already spent four months on a hunger strike to demand the release of sick political prisoners, reported the accredited press on the island. Fariñas’ health is stable and he is still hospitalized in the central city of Santa Clara, reported IPS. No information was forthcoming as what the striker was in-taking in order to stay alive.
Read MoreThe city of Remedios, one of the first eight townships founded by the Spanish colonizers in Cuba, is celebrating today its 495th anniversary, reported IPS. The city, located to the north of the central province of Villa Clara, is especially known for its “parrandas,” a carnival whose fireworks and floats attract every year thousands of tourists. The next Remedios carnival takes place this coming December.
Read More“Cuban scientists are very advanced in the production of vaccines and that is why we are interested in increasing mutual collaboration,” affirmed Sergio Machado Rezende, Brazilian minister of science, technology and innovation, who headed his country’s delegation to a working meeting with counterparts on the island.
Read MoreThe tropical wave passing through the sea southeast of Cuba could become a tropical cyclone in the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center affirmed today, giving such an occurrence a 40% chance. The system, which is moving north-westward, has caused rains in Jamaica, Hispaniola, the Cayman Islands and eastern Cuba.
Read MoreCardinal Francis George, president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of the United States, began today a two-day visit to Cuba, during which he will visit the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, and he will give a mass in that city, the island’s second most important.
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