Cuban authorities hope to complete a reduced housing construction plan by the end of the year. At the end of November, 29,703 houses were completed of the programmed 32,000. Cuba suffers from a prolonged housing shortage especially in the capital. Before three hurricanes caused severe devastation in the second half of 2008, the new housing construction goal had been 100,000 per year.
Read MoreInternational cooperation is supporting more than 60 production projects of the non-governmental National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP), announced Mario La O Sosa, head of the International Relations and Cooperation Projects Department of that organization. According to the official, that backing “has allowed for the implementation of irrigation systems, the repair of machinery and technological transfer.
Read MoreSpecialists at the Centre for Research on Coastal Ecosystems in Cayo Coco, on the northern coast of central Cuba, are building walkways on pivots from the tourist installations to the beaches to avoid erosion in these areas, where the shoreline has retreated up to three meters, announced Adán Zúñiga, director of that scientific institution.
Read MoreVice President Esteban Lazo heads the Cuban delegation to the 15th Conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which begins Thurday in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Read MoreThe U.S. government will transfer to a prison in Chicago dozens of prisoners it has in the Guantánamo Naval Base detention center, in eastern Cuba, reported IPS citing official sources in Washington. President Barack Obama promised to close down that prison in 2010.
Read MoreCuban authorities arrested 83 persons on December 10, the majority of them at their homes, during International Human Rights Day, said Elizardo Sánchez, president of the Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation. That day the Ladies in White, wives and relatives of political prisoners, were also surrounded by government followers when they marched through the streets of the island’s capital.
Read MoreBy Circles Robinson HAVANA TIMES, Dec. 15 – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton questioned the human rights situation in
Read MoreCuban authorities expanded the number of rooms of the María la Gorda International Scuba Diving Center and the installations of Los Morros de la Piedra Marina in the Biosphere Reserve of the Guanahacabibes Peninsula, in the western tip of the Caribbean country, announced Julio Camacho, director of the Office for the Development of that island.
Read MoreThe 8th Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) will conclude today at the Cuban capital’s Convention Centre, reported IPS. The delegations of the nine member countries of this regional integration mechanism focused their discussions on subjects such as the global economic crisis and climate change.
Read MoreThe US Congress approved the lifting of restrictions imposed in 2005 by the George W. Bush administration on food sales to Cuba, reported the press in Washington. This measure will allow the island to again pay in cash while the merchandise is being transported and not through third country banks before the shipment of products.
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