The powerful hurricane Joaquin continues its path slowly northwest in the Bahamas with winds of 130 mph. The outer bands of the storm may produce thunderstorms and some heavy rains and or coastal flooding and from Ciego de Avila to Guantanamo.
Read MoreVietnamese firms and banks signed six agreements with Cuba in Havana as a result of the 1st Bilateral Business Forum.
Read MoreThe center of Hurricane Joaquin is currently (8:00 am Thursday) located approximately in the Bahamas. The outer bands of rain associated with this system generate convective clouds and isolated rain over part of Cuban territory.
Read MorePresidents Raul Castro and Barack Obama met on Tuesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. It was the first meeting on U.S. soil between a Cuban and U.S. president in 60 years.
Read MoreCuban President Raul Castro used his speech today to the UN General Assembly to reiterate his country’s demands on Washington to complete the process of normalizing relations between the US and Cuba.
Read MoreUS Secretary of Commerce, Penny Pritzker, will be in Cuba on October 6-7, becoming the second cabinet member of the Obama administration to visit the island since the restoration of bilateral relations in July between Washington and Havana.
Read MoreRaul Castro is scheduled to address the United Nations sometime Monday afternoon. You watch his speech in English here on Havana Times.
Read MoreUS President Barack Obama and his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro will further the rapprochement between their two countries during a face-to-face meeting at the UN on Tuesday.
Read MoreYordanka Ariosa of Cuba won the San Sebastian Film Festival award for Best Actress on Saturday for her role as a prostitute in “The King of Havana”, adapted by director Agusti Villaronga from the novel with the same name by Pedro Juan Guitiérrez.
Read More“I’m sure that Congress will inevitably lift an embargo which should no longer be there,” president Obama said in his address this morning to the UN General Assembly. In the audience was Cuban president Raul Castro.
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