Cuba will conclude this 2010 the worse sugar harvest since 1905 due to organizational errors and mistakes in the calculations made before the harvest of the country’s former most important economic sector, reported IPS. The poor results could be the main reason for the dismissal of Minister of the Sugar Industry Luis Manuel Avila González, announced on Monday.
Read MoreHavana is a city of cultural happenings year round, be it music, dance, visual art, theater, etc. In May occur two popular events. The Mayo Teatral theater festival and the Cubadisco music festival.
Read MoreThe report found that less than two percent of Cubans listen to Radio Marti, while virtually no Cubans at all see TV Marti’s programming due not only to the Castro government’s jamming of their signals, but also to widespread perception that the news carried on both media is not “objective”.
Read MoreAs Cuba feels the impact of a drought that is affecting the entire Caribbean region, authorities have stepped up calls for water savings in households and the public sector.
Read MoreCuba will commemorate for the third consecutive year International Day against Homophobia with activities next May 11-18, announced Mariela Castro, director of the National Centre for Sex Education (CENESEX). On this occasion the main ceremony will be held in El Mejunje, a cultural institution in the city of Santa Clara, some 260 kilometers east of the island’s capital, where a space for sexual diversity was opened in the 1990s.
Read MoreWith a debt of 30.41 billion dollars, Cuba ranks in second place behind Indonesia on the list of the Paris Club’s debtor countries, according to a report released in the French capital by that group of 19 developed countries, created in 1956. The nations that owe the most include China and India in third and fourth place.
Read MoreA new shakeup has occurred in the Cuban government with the removal of the minister of transportation, Jorge Luis Sierra Cruz, and sugar minister Luis Manuel Avila Gonzalez. An official note says Sierra was guilty of “errors” and Avila of “deficiencies.”
Read MoreBacked by its considerable experience in urban agriculture, Cuba is tackling the challenge of food security through a new initiative that will bring farming to the suburban areas surrounding cities and towns.
The program was originally announced last August by President Raúl Castro, who declared that food production is “a matter of national security” and should involve “the largest number of people possible, through all available forms of land ownership.”
Read MoreCardinal Jaime Ortega asked oppositionist Guillermo Fariñas to relax his position and abandon the hunger strike he has been on since February 24 in demand for the release of the sick political prisoners. In statements to the press accredited in Cuba, the archbishop of Havana also announced he had mediated before the authorities to allow the Ladies in White to march this Sunday after the mass in the Santa Rita church in the capital’s Miramar district.
Read MoreThe Cuban health authorities began today the second stage of the vaccination against the A H1N1 influenza virus, which will cover some 150,000 minors between the ages of six months and nine years, reported the local press. According to data from the Ministry of Public Health, up to now 1,243 cases of persons affected by the disease have been reported.
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