Commercial exchange between Cuba and Canada registered a 15 per cent growth in the first nine months of 2009, announced Canadian Minister of State for the Americas Peter Kent during a meeting with Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Dagoberto Rodríguez.
Read MoreOrbitz Worldwide travel company continues to campaign for an end to the US ban on its citizens from visiting neighboring Cuba. The OpenCuba.org campaign started by the firm has to date received 100,000 signatures from people trying to send a message to Washington.
Read MoreNo one would be speaking of Honduras if people in the resistance had not struggled and sacrificed their lives for almost 140 days. The great actor in this whole story is the Honduran people, and what should prevail is their command.
Read MoreA study by the psychology faculty of the University of Havana revealed the special features of the “emos” in Cuba, an urban tribe whose presence has spread across the world. The Cuban emos are happy, are conquerors and enjoy that image because it allows them to attract the opposite sex.
Read MoreThe recovery work in the Bay of Havana made it possible in 2008 to reach the “minimum permissible threshold for marine life,” a mean five milligrams of oxygen per litre, affirmed Santiago Reyes Pérez, assistant director of the Working Group for the Cleaning, Conservation and Development of the Bay of Havana (GTE-BH).
Read MoreThe next summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) will be held in the Cuban capital on December 14 and 15, announced Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca. According to the Bolivian minister, one of the event’s fundamental topics will be the U.S.-Colombian military agreement.
Read MoreA museum that will have on display part of Cuba’s railroad heritage will be inaugurated next November 17 in Old Havana. The project, carried out by the Office of the City of Havana Historian, will exhibit six steam locomotives, one of them built in 1878.
Read MoreTwo rural communities in the western province of Pinar del Río remain isolated due to the flooding of the Cuyaguateje River, whose waters rose due to the rain left by Hurricane Ida, reported IPS on Wednesday. In certain places in this region more than 16 inches of rainfall were registered in 48 hours.
Read MoreCuban musician Raul Paz, accompanied by artists from Spain, France and the Caribbean country, will carry out a concert next November 20 at the Cuban capital’s Karl Marx Theatre as part of the activities for the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Read MoreThe authorities in the central Cuban city of Santa Clara have mobilized more than 4,000 persons to collect rubble and garbage on the banks of the Bélico and Cubanicay rivers, to combat the spread in the city of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits diseases such as dengue.
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