We will have a drop in temperatures, showers and isolated rains for the first half of the term due to the passage of frontal systems through the area. Maximum temperatures will reach 22°C (72°F) in the middle of the period, when they will begin to rise gradually. Minimum temperatures will be around 21°C (68°F).
Read MoreTeam Cuba played its next to the last pre-World Baseball Classic exhibition game on Wednesday defeating the Hanshin Tigers of the Japanese professional league by a score of 3-2. Their last exhibition game is on Friday March 1st against the Yomiuri Giants.
Read MoreSouth African Medical Students in the central Cuban province of Villa Clara, have been asked by officials in Pretoria to end their strike over stipends and to return to classes, reports the Café Fuerte website.
Read MoreCuban Catholics held a Mass at the Havana Cathedral on Tuesday thanking Pope Benedict XVI for his efforts. The Pope announced his resignation two weeks ago, the first head of the Vatican to do so in over five centuries.
Read MorePresident Raul Castro has dismissed the Cuban ambassador to Saint Kitts and Nevis, reported the Gaceta Oficial on Tuesday. The action came on request from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Read MoreWashington’s unilateral pressures on Cuba will not achieve a solution in the case of USAID communications operative Alan Gross, said US Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) to CNN on Sunday at the State of the Union address.
Read MoreMiguel Diaz Canel, a 52-year-old politician, could become the next president of Cuba in five years, when the current president can no longer be re-elected because of a provision — one that he himself has advocated — that limits office to two of five-year terms.
Read MoreNBA player Gary Payton will participate in the 15th Habano Festival, to be held this week at Havana’s Convention Center. In addition to Payton, one of the best point guards in the NBA in the ‘90s and 2000s, attendance has been announced by German tennis player Boris Becker and Italian tenor Dario Balzanelli, considered the heir to Luciano Pavarotti.
Read MoreCuban singer Pablo Milanes will tour several Colombian cities in April, said his daughter, Lynn Milanes, who will accompany him in those concerts. To date, five concerts have been confirmed, one in Bogota.
Read MoreThe Cuban team soon to participate in the Third World Baseball Classic arrived in the Japanese city of Osaka, from Chinese Taipei, to play a preparatory game against the Anshan Tigers on Wednesday.
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