A total of 413 Cuban beaches are showing signs of erosion, with the rate of coastline loss averaging 1.2 meters per year, indicated recent research that was released by the official Granma newspaper.
Read MoreTemperatures will vary little over the upcoming period. The maximum temperatures will be between 31°C (88°F) and 32°C (90°F), while the minimums will be around 25°C (77°F). There is not a high probability of rain in the capital, except for a slight increase in possibility on Monday and Tuesday.
Read MoreA large-scale fire at a gas station in Santiago de Cuba on Tuesday night injured 32 persons, 14 seriously, reported DPA news. The fire erupted after a truck crashed into a gasoline pump, producing a spillage of fuel which then caught fire.
Read MoreGlenda Murillo Diaz, one of the daughters of Cuban Vice President Marino Murillo, deserted the country in the middle of this month to live in Tampa, Florida, USA, reports Miami’s El Nuevo Herald.
Read MoreThe previously undefeated Cuban youth baseball team (with players under the age of 15) went down in defeat on Monday to the Venezuelan team during the final game of the World Baseball tournament being held in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Read MoreCanadian citizen Horacio “Odaine” Lumley was found dead after falling from third-floor balcony of a hotel at Cuba’s famous Varadero beach resort, reported the Café Fuerte website on Saturday.
Read MoreCuban cyclist Lisandra Guerra has risen to fifth place in world rankings in the cycling sprint category, with 240 points, announced the International Cycling Union (UCI) on Monday.
Read MoreCuban activist and theorist Pedro Campos wound up as the winner of the 2012 Casa Cuba essay contest sponsored in Havana by the Catholic magazine Espacio Laical and the Centro Cultural Padre Felix Varela.
Read MoreAward-winning Cuban jazz musician Chucho Valdes said on Sunday in San Jose, Costa Rica, that his retirement from the stage is still far off, but that when he finally has to do that, his suffering will be “of a grand magnitude.”
Read MoreJose Daniel Ferrer, the leader of the political opposition group Union Patriotica de Cuba, was released on Sunday morning after being held incommunicado since last Thursday in Santiago de Cuba.
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