The Jose Marti International Airport in Havana reestablished its operations on Tuesday following the passage of Hurricane Irma. Thousands of tourists are still stranded on the island waiting for international flights to begin.
Read MoreThe extent of damage from hurricane Irma in Varadero, Cuba’s leading beach resort, is still a mystery as the authorities make the rounds to quantify the loss. Some 17,000 tourists were at the dozens of different hotels in Varadero when the center of Irma hung close by for several hours late Saturday and early Sunday…
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan government published the so-called “White Paper on the Great Interoceanic Canal” last week, amidst uncertainty for the future of this project, whose progress is being kept secret, without Chinese businessman Wang Jing, the concession holder, showing his face for over a year.
Read MorePope Francis bid farewell to Colombia on Sunday after his four-day exclusive visit with a message urging the Colombian people to continue down the path to peace and reconciliation without leaving the truth, justice and reparations aside, and he also took the opportunity to pray for Venezuela.
Read MoreOn our Facebook page there is a good discussion going on as whether people should maintain their plans to visit Cuba in the coming days, weeks or months or cancel or postpone their trips after the damage caused by Hurricane Irma, which is still being fully assessed.
Read MoreCuban TV reported on Monday morning that ten people have died across the country resulting from Hurricane Irma’s destruction. The majority of these people reportedly died as a result of buildings collapsing and in some cases, for not having complied with evacuation orders that they received from Civil Defense troops.
Read MoreA sea surge that reaches from 5 to 7 blocks in some areas of the Cuban capital continues and is expected to last throughout the day on Sunday, reported meteorologist Jose Rubiera during his latest report on Cuban TV. While many people were evacuated from their homes in the affected area, the damage caused by the salt water continues and will be extensive. In all, over a million Cubans were evacuated. Photo: Canal Habana
Read MoreThe latest projections for the path of Hurricane Irma show Varadero, Cuba’s leading beach resort area, in danger of receiving the full force or close to it. At 2:00 p.m. Cuban time, the National Hurricane Center located the center of Irma at only 65 miles east of Varadero.
Read MoreFor nearly 12 hours the powerful Hurricane Irma has engulfed a good portion of Camaguey and neighboring Ciego de Avila provinces with hurricane and tropical storm force winds, heavy rains and huge waves. The eye of the storm passed near the famous Cayo Coco and Cayo Guillermo resorts, and now moves along the north coast of Villa Clara province.
Read MoreErnesto tidies up the corners of the sheets on the mattress that is laid out on the floor so that his wife and two children can lie down. They have all been evacuated from a town which is on the northern coast of Cuba in order to keep them safe from Hurricane Irma.
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