Havana’s Almacenes Ultra department store will remain closed “until further notice” on instructions from the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). The busy store was closed last week owing to “large concentrations of mosquitos and rodents and severe leaks in sanitary facilities,” store sources confirmed.
Read MoreCuban boxer Roniel Iglesias (69 kilograms), the London 2012 Olympic champion, was given a year’s separation from the Cuban national squad “because of indiscipline committed”. The Cuban Boxing Federation (FCB) did not specify the” indiscipline” committed by the boxer.
Read MoreCubana Airlines received on Wednesday a third Antonov An-158 passenger aircraft sold by Russia to the Caribbean island. The delivery was made at the Moscow MAKS International Aerospace 2013 hall, reported Prensa Latina.
Read MorePanamanian and North Korean officials met in Panama City starting Wednesday to discuss the situation of the “Chong Chon Gang” ship and the crew arrested on July 10. A subsequent search found that the vessel was carrying a cargo of undeclared military weapons, that “without a doubt” violated UN sanctions on North Korea.
Read MoreWe will have good weather with clear skies at the beginning of term. Starting Sunday the days will be partly cloudy with rain in the afternoon. High temperatures will remain stable averaging 31° C (88 F) and the lows around 24° C (75 F).
Read MoreWorkplace negligence resulted in a 15,000-liter oil spill at the Sergio Soto Refinery located in Cabaiguan, in Cuba’s central province of Sancti Spiritus. According to authorities at the facility, the situation is already under control.
Read MoreBrazilian President Dilma Rousseff said today that the manifestation of hostility towards the Cuban doctors arriving to work in regions of the country where health care is precarious reflects a “huge bias” by Brazilian professionals, reported dpa news.
Read MoreThis past weekend, Brazil welcomed the first 400 of a contingent of 4,000 Cuban medical doctors, hired to provide health services to populations living in the remotest and poorest areas of the Latin American giant.
Read MoreCuba is currently facing the fourth outbreak of cholera in the last year, with 163 people infected in three provinces of the island, including 12 tourists. No deaths have been reported, notes a statement made public on Tuesday by the Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization.
Read MoreThe governing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), of El Salvador thanked the Cuban government for the training of 400 doctors who haverecently returned to the Central American country after seven years at the Latin American School of Medicine.
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