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The Maraguán Artistic Group from the University of Camaguey, travel to Chile for the first time in its XXI International tour. A symbol of the amateur artists movement from the FEU (Spanish for University Students Federation), the group left after offering a performance at the FITCUBA 2008 Tourism International Festival, in the Morro-Cabaña Park from Havana.

The malformation is consequence of alterations in the chromosomes, but it will not impede the bird’s normal growth

Committed to doing a journalism from a Revolutionary stance, the professionals of the mass media in Camagüey, eastern Cuba, will meet Friday in their Provincial Assembly, prior the 8th Congress of the Association of Cuban Journalists (UPEC).

From the 109 000 pensioners and retired persons in this province, 107 156 are current beneficiaries because of an increase in social security pensions, what was recently approved in the Island.

Motivated by the contest “Letters for a father that already is”, dedicated to Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo, one of the Cuban Five, imprisoned in the United States of America for confronting state-sponsored terrorism, more than 200 letters have been received in the city of Camaguey.

The sixth edition of the International Poor Cinema Festival, organized by the famous movie maker Humberto Solás, extended its proposals to the province of Camagüey, April 18th-to 21st.

Cuba has begun clearing sickle bush from thousands of hectares of rice land as soaring prices force it to reconsider importing hundreds of thousands of tonnes of the population's main staple, local media reported.

“Larios” workshop gallery remains as a delusion of grandeur trace left by those enormous housings built during the 18th century in the former village of Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe.

Two traditional examples of colonial architecture in the Cuban city of Camagüey have been nominated for highly-coveted Cuban awards.

The first persons in arriving in this city motivated by the “Puerto Príncipe 2008” Sixth International Symposium on Artistic Ceramic began yesterday to shape their pieces using the clay of this legendary city.

The director of films like Lucia, Cecilia, Honey for Oshún, Cuba Neighbourhood, among others, also said that the Festival will keep its alternative venues in the cities of Santiago de Cuba and Holguín. This edition will have an itinerant status; ¨like an experiment, the city of Camagüey will receive us one day after the Festival is over in Gibara¨.

“La Soledad” Church and “La Merced” Complex (church and convent), two symbolic buildings of the colonial architecture in this city, have been nominated to the National Awards of Restoration and Preservation, respectively.

Cuban President Raul Castro conferred the Medal for Bravery, post mortem, on young firefighter Alejandro Clivillé Sariol, who died from a heart attack caused by asphyxia, while trying to put out a blaze at a local department store in this eastern Cuban city.

Some 500 members of the Ministry of the Interior, the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Civil Defense along with employees of the shop named El Encanto, which belongs to the local CIMEX Corporation, finally managed to control the blaze as night fell, after six hours of struggle.

Graduates are going to work for the Cuban Aviation Enterprise and Aero Caribbean, since none of them have faced before accidents or risks linked to their professional capacity; said Alejandro Ballesteros, head of the institution, to the AIN.