The Cayman Islands trembled from a 5.8 earthquake on Tuesday, with the center located some 40 miles from the capital George Town, and some 6.2 miles deep in the Caribbean Sea. US geologists reported that the aftershocks were felt in both Cuba and Miami.
Read MoreSome 50 Haitian fifth year medical students studying at Cuba’s Latina American Medical School (ELAM) arrived in Port au Prince on Tuesday to join the relief effort to a large extent organized by the Cuban physicians and specialists.
Read MoreThe director of the National Centre for Sex Education (CENESEX), Mariela Castro, confirmed today to the press that sex change operations are being done in the country. Around half of the persons waiting for the procedure have already had it.
Read MoreCuba is ready to collaborate with all the countries that work in aiding the victims of the earthquake that hit Haiti last January 12 and in the recovery of that neighboring country, according to a communiqué by the island’s permanent mission to the UN. More than 400 Cuban healthcare professionals are working in the affected territories as well as a similar number of Haitian doctors who studied medicine at the Latin American Med School in Cuba.
Read MoreAmid criticism that the U.S. Defense Department was prioritizing military and rescue air traffic to earthquake-stricken Haiti, U.S. officials controlling the country’s main airport have agreed to guarantee landing slots for planes carrying humanitarian aid.
Read MoreThe year 2009 closed as one of the 10 hottest reported in Cuba since 1951, registering a mean temperature of 25.93 degrees Celsius (78.67 F), reported Ramón Pérez, of the Climate Centre of the Institute of Meteorology. Last year was also less rainy than the historical average in all the country’s regions.
Read MoreIn our country, it seems a “revolutionary” is —solely— a person who agrees with the official discourse all the time. The concept of revolution is not the one included in the dictionary, but the one coined by officialdom. We’ve lost the concept of what a genuinely revolutionary position is.
Read MoreNew York City recently hosted its first Cuban band in five years, after the group Septeto Nacional became the first to win a visa that allowed it to accept a booking there.
Read MoreThis was not just a regular church service. For one thing, Mass is usually celebrated in the church pews, not in the yard. So it was on the first Sunday after an earthquake destroyed this city, survivors struggled to keep to their routine, including attending Mass.
Read MoreThe 5th Cuban Congress on Sex Education, Guidance and Therapy begins Monday in the Cuban capital with the participation of some 300 specialists, announced Mariela Castro, director of the National Centre for Sex Education (CENESEX).
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