Cuban 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.
Read MoreToday’s report indicates that Santiago de Cuba veteran pitcher Norge Vera has been moved to the Hermanos Amejeiras Hospital in Havana and is resting comfortably while awaiting reconstructive nose surgery to repair damage suffered in a street brawl last Sunday.
The blow caused multiple fractures to the nose area (three fractures of the cheekbone) but fortunately the star pitcher received no lesions or lacerations to the adjoining eye area.
Industriales, pride and joy of the Cuban capital, finished the first week of the 2009-2010 Cuban Baseball League season undefeated after sweeping both Isla de la Juventud and Metropolitanos .
Read MoreThis month Spain’s Sol Meliá group will carry out in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay a campaign to promote its hotels and offers in Cuba, placing emphasis on the installations located on keys and the opportunity of combining them with the capital, announced the Cuba Division’s CEOs.
Read MoreTwenty-six per cent of Cuban agriculture’s labor force is unproductive, a problem “that creates bureaucracy, increases costs, slows down productivity, creates disorder and prevents workers from improving their income,” reported IPS.
Read MoreSanchez, who publishes the blog Generation Y, is frequently cited by the US press as a leading dissident of the Cuban government and an expert on the difficulties of life on the island. She wrote on her blog that last Friday her, Pardo and Cadelo were briefly detained and warned against continuing their “counterrevolutionary” writing.
Read MoreThe Holy See did not receive an official reply to its request that the Catholic Church be given normal access to the media, made by the president of Vatican Council for Social Communications, Claudio Celli, during a working visit to Cuba.
Read MoreHurricane Ida caused heavy rains on Sunday and Monday in Cuba’s western province of Pinar del Rio. The local press reported on Tuesday that any losses to tobacco nurseries and vegetables from the rains were outweighed by the benefit of rising reservoirs. The region was suffering from one of the driest rainy seasons in years.
Read MoreWith Hurricane Ida moving deeper into the Gulf of Mexico, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) pulled the tropical storm warning that had been on Cuba’s westernmost Pinar del Rio province, in its 10:00 p.m. EST report. Nonetheless, the island’s civil defense authorities are still on guard.
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