Data from Cuba’s Ministry of Labor and Social Security indicate that 398,447 Cubans were engaged in private work at the end of November, a figure below that agency’s previous forecasts.
Read MoreThe Playa Girón national boxing tournament concluded this weekend in Sancti Spiritus province, with the Camagüey team on top (3-0-3). Also excelling were Pinar del Rio (2-1-2), the host Sancti Spiritus (2-0-1) and Guantánamo (1-3-4).
Read MoreThe telephone system in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba is restored to 99%, after being severely damaged by Hurricane Sandy at the end of October.
Read MoreThe first library-park in Cuba will be opened on the grounds of Jose Marti National Library in Havana on Saturday December 29, reported Juventud Rebelde newspaper.
Read MoreThe novel “Ecué-Yamba-O!” by the great Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier, will have a new edition, 35 years after its only publishing on the island.
Read MoreThe National Council of the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC) decided to “liberate” their second secretary Angel Morffi Losada, after 23 years as a union official, the weekly Trabajadores reported on Monday.
Read More“President Chavez asked me to give his special greeting to all the children of Venezuela on this Christmas Eve,” said VP Nicolas Maduro on Monday night, after speaking with Chavez by telephone.
Read MoreA new photographic exhibition hall, equipped with seven high-resolution digital displays, will open in Old Havana on January 24. “Cuba en el Corredor del Caribe” (Cuba in the Caribbean Corridor), by photographer and researcher Nicasio Viña, will be the opening work in the exhibition space.
Read MoreThe Central Bank of Cuba granted 133,000 loans so far this year, given out primarily for the purchase of building materials and payments for labor, reported the Prensa Latina news agency.
Read MoreThe film La piscina, by Cuban director Carlos Machado Quintela, has been selected for the “Panorama Section” of the 63rd annual Berlin International Film Festival, to be held from February 7 to 17 in that capital.
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