Cuban baseball has once again been in the world news this last week with the signing of lefthander Aroldis Chapman to a US $30 million 6-year contract with the Cincinnati Reds of MLB. Back home on the island the current 90-game season reached the two/thirds mark on Tuesday with Sancti Spiritus (Western Division) and Guantanamo (Eastern) continuing to lead the pack by comfortable leads.
Read MoreThe Tourism Office and the Cuban embassy in France will participate in the Dijon International Fair, dedicated this year to the island, to be held January 29-31, announced Gilberto López, representative of the Ministry of Tourism. The Caribbean country will also be the guest of honour at the Alencon Fair in Normandy, February 24-March 1.
Read MoreThe U.S. Finca Vigia Foundation Inc. and the Cuban National Council of Cultural Heritage (CNPC) signed an agreement to advance in the conservation of Ernest Hemingway’s heritage, which will mainly make it possible to save the books by the writer in the Finca Vigia, his former house on the outskirts of the island’s capital.
Read MoreHavana’s annual International Jazz Plaza festival takes place in 2010 on December 16-19. This year’s festival could include the participation of artists previously forbidden by the US government from traveling to Cuba.
Read MoreThe Cayman Islands trembled from a 5.8 earthquake on Tuesday, with the center located some 40 miles from the capital George Town, and some 6.2 miles deep in the Caribbean Sea. US geologists reported that the aftershocks were felt in both Cuba and Miami.
Read MoreSome 50 Haitian fifth year medical students studying at Cuba’s Latina American Medical School (ELAM) arrived in Port au Prince on Tuesday to join the relief effort to a large extent organized by the Cuban physicians and specialists.
Read MoreThe director of the National Centre for Sex Education (CENESEX), Mariela Castro, confirmed today to the press that sex change operations are being done in the country. Around half of the persons waiting for the procedure have already had it.
Read MoreCuba is ready to collaborate with all the countries that work in aiding the victims of the earthquake that hit Haiti last January 12 and in the recovery of that neighboring country, according to a communiqué by the island’s permanent mission to the UN. More than 400 Cuban healthcare professionals are working in the affected territories as well as a similar number of Haitian doctors who studied medicine at the Latin American Med School in Cuba.
Read MoreAmid criticism that the U.S. Defense Department was prioritizing military and rescue air traffic to earthquake-stricken Haiti, U.S. officials controlling the country’s main airport have agreed to guarantee landing slots for planes carrying humanitarian aid.
Read MoreThe year 2009 closed as one of the 10 hottest reported in Cuba since 1951, registering a mean temperature of 25.93 degrees Celsius (78.67 F), reported Ramón Pérez, of the Climate Centre of the Institute of Meteorology. Last year was also less rainy than the historical average in all the country’s regions.
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