Cuba News Headlines. Cuban Daily News

At 500 pm ast 2100 utc the government of Cuba has issued a tropical storm watch from the province of Camaguey eastward to the province of Guantanamo. A tropical storm watch means that tropical storm conditions are possible within the watch area generally within 36 hours.

The 1100 am position is 14.6 N and 62.6 W. Movement toward west near 21 mph. Maximum sustained winds 105 mph. Minimum central pressure 964 mb.

Fernández shall interpret Rachmaninov Concert No. 2 with the Symphonic Orchestra of Panama , conducted by maestro Jorge Ledesma.

The award will be presented next August 29th, as a tribute to the birth of the great Argentinean writer, and it will be held at the Dulce María Loynaz Cultural Centre in Havana City.

The main task is to prepare the assemblies to nominate candidates, as well as neighborhood meetings where neighbors, without the participation of the Communist Party, run their candidates.

The dams store 80 percent of their capacities, such result is satisfactory, because it has a much higher average with over 671 million cubic meters of water dammed, compared with equal date of the last year.

Not as expected by many observers, the Cuba side failed to dominate the net throughout the four sets

Artiles' plays for young people have been performed in Cuba, Europe and several Latin American countries.

A 24-man top-level Cuban baseball team prepares to travel to Italy where the host nation has organized four-way match up to prepare for the European pre-Olympic tournament which will give one ticket to Beijing 2008.

Hurricane Deancould strengthen into a Category 4 hurricane over the next two days is pounding the eastern Caribbean islands of Martinique and Dominica as it churned into the Caribbean Sea.

At 800 am the center of hurricane Dean was located by an air force hurricane hunter aircraft near latitude 14.4 north longitude 61.7 west or 50 miles-80 km west-southwest of Martinique.

At 5:00 p.m. the center of hurricane Dean was located near latitude 14.0 north, longitude 56.5 west or about 210 miles-335 km east-northeast of Barbados and about 305 miles-490 km east of Martinique. Dean is moving toward the west near 23 mph-37 km/hr and this motion is expected to continue tonight and tomorrow. On this track, the center of Dean will be crossing the Lesser Antilles early friday.