The Cuban Telecommunications Company (ETECSA) has reduced its international call rates through December 15 by over 40 percent, informed that Cuban-Italian company. Under the promotion all calls will now cost US $1.00 per minute compared to the previous US $1.80 to the United States and $3.80 to Spain, the two countries with the most Cuban immigrants.
Read MoreA delegation of U.S. Catholic bishops is in Cuba to see progress on the repairs from damage caused by three hurricanes in 2008. The US Catholic community donated 1.1 million dollars to the recovery effort.
Read MoreThe Cuban Meteorology Institute reported at 6:00 p.m. on Monday that Hurricane Bill threatens to become a major hurricane in the next 12-24 hours. The first tropical cyclone of the current hurricane season (June-November) is not expected to affect Cuba unless it took a highly unexpected turn to the south in the coming days.
Read MoreCuba’s female triple jumpers gave the island its first two medals at the Berlin 2009 World Championship in Athletics. Yargelis Savigne won the gold medal and compatriot Mabel Gay took the silver.
Read MoreCuba’s Meteorological Institute continues to monitor Hurricane Bill as the storm moves west from its current position in the Atlantic. Current projections show the storm moving in the Atlantic, north of the eastern Caribbean islands, on route towards Bermuda.
Read MoreBill is the first hurricane in the Atlantic during the current season. Earlier on Monday the storm was still some 1,870 kilometers east of the smaller Eastern Caribbean islands. The projected path of Hurricane Bill would take it north-northeast of Puerto Rico leaving Cuba off its path, although it’s still too early to tell the impact of the outer bands of the cyclone.
Read MoreSpanish signers Ana Belen and Victor Manuel expressed their support for the Juanes Peace Concert to be held in Havana on September 20, reported IPS. Belen criticized the “anti-Castro exiles of Miami” that have strongly protested the musician’s project to perform in the Cuban capital.
Read MoreWith baseball’s true “World Series” only three weeks away, Cuba has expanded its lead over runner-up Korea in the IBAF world baseball rankings, Cuba’s gap over Asian powers Korea and Japan expanded with a gold medal triumph at the recent Rotterdam World Port Tournament.
Read MoreJuanes’ project has generated a strong polemic in the Florida-based Cuban exile community. Yesterday an anti-Castro group destroyed records by the artist and burnt a black shirt in Miami.
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