The Cuban medical contingent deployed in Haiti started up six rehabilitation wards for the victims of the January 12 earthquake, a type of healthcare service that did not exist in that Caribbean country, reported the local press. Up to now the island’s personnel, accompanied by students from Cuba’s Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), have treated more than 50,000 persons.
Read MoreCuba’s chess senstion Leinier Dominguez finished eighth in the tough Wijk aan Zee 2010 tournament in Holland that ended Sunday. The winner was 19-year-old Norweigian Margnus Carlsen, considered before hand as the player to beat. Leinier drew in his final match against second place finisher Alexei Sirvov, ending with 6.5 points.
Read MoreThe government-announced readjustments of expenditures and its “lack of definition in terms of perspective as well as means” in the face of the crisis could lead Cuba to an economic collapse, said Boris Moreno, priest and master in economic sciences, in an article published by the magazine Palabra Nueva of the Archdiocese of Havana. According to the economist, the state policy is “kidnapped by the ideological recentralization that wants to maintain at all costs an order of things that suffocates the country.”
Read MoreWomen represent 54 per cent of the persons linked to the scientific sector in Cuba, in which 71,000 persons work, the majority of them with a higher education, the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA) reported. The island has 210 research, technological and innovation centers and areas.
Read MoreThe Cuban Los Van Van popular salsa music band brought together some 4,000 persons (near 90% capacity) at the James L. Knight Center in Miami, the United States, where they gave their second concert of the preamble of their upcoming U.S. tour. Calls were made by the band leaders to build bridges between the Cuban community in exile and the residents on the island.
Read MoreFather and son jazz pianists Bebo and Chucho Valdes have won a grammy award for the Best Latin Jazz Album at the ceremony taking place Sunday night in Los Angeles. The award winning album is titled “Juntos Para Siempre” (Together forever).
Read MoreAn extensive feature article appears in the UK’s Daily Mail online on Sunday written by Margaret Thatcher’s daughter Carol about her recent bicycle tour of Cuba. The article starts out with Thatcher’s dilemma about buying some shoelaces in shortage prone Cuba and goes on to recount her trip that included the Varadero Beach Resort, the far western rural community of Viñales and Havana the capital.
Read MoreCuba’s most famous salsa band Los Van Van perform in concert tonight at the James L. Knight Center in Miami. In statements to a local Miami radio station the band’s director Juan Formell said the group is willing to share the stage with Cuban musicians living off the island.
Read MoreThe Cuban Ministry of Interior claims to have made over 25,000 inspections at State offices and businesses during 2009, reported the Cuban News Agency on Saturday. The ministry said that 7,059 fines were issued but did not go into any details as to the extent or seriousness of the violations.
Read MoreThe number of patients in the Havana Psychiatric Hospital who died due to the cold weather in mid January could be as many as 50, affirmed Elizardo Sánchez, president of the opposition’s Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation. Up to now the Cuban authorities have only acknowledged the death of 26 persons.
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