Spain’s Foreign Ministry has called in the Cuban ambassador to Madrid, Alejandro Gonzalez, to explain why Spanish European Parliament member Luis Yañez, a socialist, was not allowed to enter Cuba. Yanez is president for delegations dealing with Latin American trade group Mercosur and is a member of the parliamentary assembly covering European-Latin American relations.
Read MoreCuba closed 2009 with an infant mortality rate of 4.8 per 1,000 live births, slightly higher than the previous year, which was 4.7, reported IPS. According to data from UNICEF, this figure is the lowest in the hemisphere, including the United States and Canada.
Read MoreSome 150,000 persons in Cuba (1.3% of the total population) could obtain Spanish nationality in the next three years thanks to the so-called Grandchildren’s Law, which recognizes that status for descendants of emigrants from the European country, affirmed Spain’s El País daily, which cited consular sources. It is estimated that the island, with 11.2 million inhabitants, is the nation where there will be the most applications.
Read MoreThe feature titled Cuba Seeks Sustainable Socialism quotes Mariela Castro, the daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro, Rafael Hernandez, editor of Temas (issues) magazine, and Dr Rolando Perez, a key research director at the islands state-of-the-art Centre of Molecular Immunology (CIM).
Read MoreA Cuban-Venezuelan company will be in charge of building a new international airport in the city of Cap Haitien, reported IPS citing official sources in Port-au-Prince. The work will cost 33 million dollars, which will be defrayed by a loan from Venezuela to be paid in 25 years.
Read MoreThe Ultra Micro Analytic System (SUMA) will be put at the disposition of all the municipalities in Cuba in 2010, announced José Luis Hernández Yero, director of the Immunoassay Center. That technology, created in the island, is used in diagnosing the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV, which causes AIDS), hepatitis B and metabolic diseases in newborns.
Read MoreHT is happy to announce a second photo contest for our readers. This time around there will be three categories: Cuban Daily Life (Urban), Rural Cuba and Unusual Cuba photos. The First Place photo in each of the three categories will have a US $75 prize and a US $25 Second Prize, as well as a special mention. For all the details see the full post…
Read MoreThe Registry Department of the Dominican Republic’s Secretariat of Public Health registered a group of Cuban pharmaceutical products used in the treatment of diseases such as cancer, AIDS, diabetic foot ulcers and hepatitis B.
Read MoreThe Cuban Association of Cinema Press awarded the short Brainstorm, by writer Eduardo del Llano, one of the prizes to the best national productions in 2009, it was reported by the accredited media in the island. The film, which has circulated from hand to hand among the population but has not been premiered in movie theatres, nor on Cuban TV. Brainstorm questions how the Caribbean country’s state-run press functions.
Read MoreVaradero beach resort, 120 kilometers east of the Cuban capital, today received its millionth tourist for 2009, a figure that confirms it as one of the country’s principal tourist destinations, reported IPS. The peninsula located in Matanzas Province welcomes 40 per cent of the tourists who come to the island; today there are 48 hotels.
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