Holy See Foreign Minister Dominique Mamberti will travel to Cuba to participate in the tenth Catholic Social Week, to be held next June 16-20, announced a note from the Archdiocese of Havana, which is organizing the event. The meeting will discuss “the need for dialogue and reconciliation between Cubans and the challenges of the national economy,” among other issues.
Read MoreCuban specialists expressed their will to turn the country into an exporter of flowers, a product that used to be exported to the United States before 1959, it was reported to the press during the FLORIMAT 2010 First National Workshop, being held in the western city of Matanzas. The participants favored opening up to the introduction of clones and using the areas with microclimates in the island.
Read MoreCuba’s coasts will not be affected by the oil slick that is advancing in the Gulf of Mexico toward the United States due to the explosion of an oil rig Last April 20, affirmed Orlando Rey, a specialist with the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA). Nevertheless, the region’s biodiversity will suffer the effects of the oil spill, pointed out the expert.
Read MoreThe Cuban tourism authorities are negotiating 13 investment projects in marinas, golf courses and other tourist installations, announced Minister of Tourism Manuel Marrero, who affirmed that the juridical instrument that regulates those agreements will come out soon. Marrero also recognized that tourism from the United States will be important “when the travel ban is lifted.”
Read MoreHalf of Cuba’s idle farmland still hasn’t been handed over for agricultural production under the government program to do so, said Orlando Lugo, president of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP). Nonetheless, according to Lugo, more than 60,000 persons have been incorporated to agricultural work and are already reaping benefits from a million hectares which had previously been invaded by shrubs such as marabú.
Read MoreThe popular Cuban folk-rock singer Carlos Varela said he opposes the “actos de repudio” (hate rallies) against the Ladies in White, wives and relatives of Cuban political prisoners.
Read MoreThe up to 50 per cent increase in Cuban emigrants’ trips in the first four months of the year, as compared to 2009, has given a boost to tourist arrivals, which reached the unprecedented figure of 1,053,000 in these four months, Minister of Tourism Manuel Marrero recognized when speaking at the International Tourism Fair being held in this capital.
Read MoreCuba 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”.
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