The Caribbean Risk Management Initiative (CRMI) announced the launching of a new website (www.undp.org.cu/crmi) in three languages with the goal of becoming a point of reference on these issues in the Caribbean, in addition to a platform for knowledge on the risk reduction of disasters and the adaptation to climate change.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro yesterday was visited by Ecuadorian Vice President Lenin Moreno Garcés. Fidel is the senior advisor to the government of his brother Raul Castro.
Read MoreWriting for a publication called the Global Post, Nick Miroff provides readers with an excellent account of the history and current status of business relations between US mobile phone companies and Internet providers and Cuba.
Read MoreNew Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has been in Cuba this week to get a look at the island’s civil defense system. The deadly chaos that overcame New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 sharply contrasted from Cuba’s dealing with that cyclone and three major hurricanes in 2008, when only seven persons died as a result.
Read MoreIberian-American Secretary General Enrique Iglesias will meet this Tuesday with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez as part of a working agenda that includes meetings with other government officials.
Read MoreThe talks in Honduras have stalled over the question of reinstating ousted President Manuel Zelaya, whose delegates have called on the Organization of American States (OAS) to take steps to keep the negotiations from failing. Zelaya’s negotiators hope that at the meeting on Wednesday, the OAS will reiterate its earlier demands that the deposed president be immediately reinstated, and adopt new sanctions against the de facto regime if it refuses to budge from its positions.
Read MoreA trade delegation from Virginia headed up by the state’s commissioner of agriculture and consumer services is expected in Cuba for the Havana International Trade Fair to take place from November 2-7.
Read MoreAfter seven days of talks, the de facto government in Honduras has taken off its mask. By its rejection of the content of the key point of the San Jose Agreement -the element which foresees the reinstatement of President Manuel Zelaya Rosales- it has evidenced that it has been using delaying tactics all along. The goal of this strategy has been to run out the clock to the November elections, whose process will be strictly manipulated and controlled by the powers behind the coup, including the army.
Read More“The problem —one we are also experiencing at Juventud Rebelde— is that information doesn’t escape the excessive centralization of our economy and our society in general, something that by no means is a fated genetic component of socialism (as some people believe); instead, this centralization hinders its democratic potential,” wrote Jose Alejandro Rodriguez.
“Decisions are often made much higher up concerning what to write and report, as well as what not to write about concerning the major issues of society, even when stubborn life marches on below, with all its complexities.”
Read MoreThe 2009-2010 Cuban Baseball Season gets underway with the inauguration on Sunday November 1st at the home field of last year’s champions, Havana Province. As soon as the schedule is released Havana Times will publish it for our readers.
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