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A DVD with the best of the work of Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez will be presented on March 8 at the International Documentary Film Festival, which bears his name, the organizing committee announced on Friday.

Cuban Yipsi Moreno broke the Cuban and Central American hammer throwing record with a throw of 75.64 meters, during a an international competition in Kingston, Jamaica

The sixth Ignacio Cervantes International Piano Concourse and Festival will open at the Havana Amadeo Roldan Theater on March 8, with participation of 21 piano players from 10 countries.

Teams from five nations have registered to compete in the 17th edition of the Captain San Luis Cup, for Jai Alai (Pelota Vasca), which runs from 11 to 17 March in the Raul Diaz Arguelles Complex of Cuba's capital Havana, Cuban press said on Monday.

A group of North American labor, community, and academic activists are sponsoring the first annual Global Solidarity School in Havana, Cuba, from May 6 to May 11, 2007. Participants will have the opportunity to share ideas, experiences, and strategies with leading Cuban activist educators and international cultural experts. The idea is to bring together people seeking to build a better world.

A retrospective of films based on works by 1982 Nobel prizewinner Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez, also known as Gabo, started in this capital from Tuesday to Friday.

Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas is hoping that a larger number of nursing students from his country could undergo professional training in Cuba.