Cuban tourism and health authorities continue to keep potential visitors to the island in the dark about a new travel insurance requirement that takes effect on May 1. A lack of information has some people reconsidering their vacations to the island.
Read MoreThe removal of Gen. Rogelio Acevedo from his position as the head of Civil Aeronautics has exposed a Pandora’s Box. On the street, people are talking about how corruption within the airline industry rose to overshadow all previous cases; this latest instance involved the embezzlement of millions of dollars generated from clandestine commercial activities.
Read MoreIndustriales won an extra-inning thriller 7-5 over Villa Clara to win Cuba’s coveted baseball championship on Wednesday night.
The hero was the young sensation Stayler Hernandez who drove in the go ahead run with a double and Raiko Olivares added the insurance run with a sacrifice fly, both in the top of the tenth.
Read MoreChanges to improve the Cuban economy are not happening fast enough to satisfy people’s expectations, and instead appear to have got bogged down due to the international financial crisis and the island’s internal difficulties in overcoming the impact.
Read MoreA meeting of foreign ministers of the European Union and Cuba of political bilateral dialogue set for April 6 in Madrid was indefinitely suspended reported IPS citing the Spanish Foreign Ministry. The decision comes at a time of differences over the human rights situation on the island whereby the EU criticizes Cuba, which in turn shuns meddling in its internal affairs.
Read MoreCuban President Raul Castro and representatives of the religious community of the country celebrated in Havana the 20th anniversary of the meeting between former President Fidel Castro and leaders of the protestant and evangelical churches and the Jewish temples in Cuba, reported IPS. The remembrance took place at the Jose Marti Memorial in the Plaza of the Revolution.
Read MoreThe health ministers of Haiti, Cuba, and Brazil gathered in Port-au-Prince over the weekend to announce the signing of a cooperation agreement to rebuild the Haitian public health system. The Brazilian government pledged $US80 million to help reconstruct the health system, including the establishment of a national epidemiologic surveillance network, to be staffed by Cuban, Haitian and Latin American health professionals trained in Cuba.
Read MoreTrips by Cuban emigrants from the island residing in the United States have increased by 150 to 200 per cent in the first three months of this year, reported IPS quoting Mexico’s La Jornada daily, which cites Armando García, president of Marazul, one of the charter companies that fly from Florida to Cuba.
Read MoreThe 2009-2010 Cuban Baseball Season is down to one game on Wednesday to determine the champion between Villa Clara, last year’s runner-up, and Industriales, the surprise club of the playoffs after a mediocre regular season.
Read MoreI’m a faithful follower of Cuban baseball. Ever since I was little, going to the stadium has constituted one of my most enjoyable pleasures – with the music, the shouting before each home team hit, the songs mocking our opponents, and those ever-friendly disputes with the referees.
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