The risk of forest fires occurring in Cuba will increase starting this month due to the drought of the last quarter of 2009 and the southern winds, announced the National Headquarters of the Forest Rangers Corps. Up to now, in 2010, there have been 20 fires that have affected 211 hectares.
Read MoreCuban authorities are carrying out a study in coastal communities to determine the possible effects of the rise in sea level, as well as investigating the varieties resistant to water and thermal stress on agriculture, consequences of climate change, announced Orlando Rey, head of the Environment Department of the Ministry of Science.
Read MoreThe large Cuban medical brigade working in Haiti will open its fifth tent hospital this week in Les Cayes, a port city fifteen miles southwest of the capital Port au Prince. The other four hospitals are in Croix des Buquet, Carrefour, Leogane and Jacmel.
Read MoreCuba’s Yargelis Savigne won the women’s triple jump of the PSD Bank Meet taking place in Dusseldorf Germany. In the same meet a recuperated Dayron Robles of Cuba won the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 7.50 seconds.
Read MoreBrazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva plans to visit Cuba on February 24-25 to meet with Raul and Fidel Castro, announced the Brazilian Foreign Ministry. Lula’s last visit to Cuba was in October 2008, shortly after Cuba was hit by powerful hurricanes Gustav and Ike.
Read MoreThe central-eastern city of Camaguey, Cuba is celebrating the 496th anniversary of its founding. To salute the date the city is showing what it claims to be the largest rag doll in the world. The 22-meter doll was the work of the Carsueños socio-cultural project.
Read MoreCuba and Venezuela carried out the first transaction with the “Sucre”, a ledger book currency to be used for exchanges between members of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA). One Sucre is equivalent to 1.25 US Dollars.
Read MoreThe United Nations Development Program (UNDP) will assist Cuba to carry out research and observation projects and other actions aimed at preserving the protected marine and costal areas on the south side of the archipelago.
Read MoreCuba’s Beijing Olympic Champ Dayron Robles went virtually wire-to-wire to win the 60-meter hurdles in Dusseldorf, German on Wednesday in the PSD Bank Meet with a time of 7.50 seconds.
Read MoreThe Cuban La Colmenita Children’s Theatre Company will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its foundation starting next February 14 by climbing to Turquino Peak (the island’s highest), performances in the Ciénaga de Zapata lowlands and the premier of Elpidio Valdés and Los Van Van, announced its director, Carlos Alberto Cremata. La Colmenita is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
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