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Barber day celebrated in Havana, Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Barber day celebrated in Havana, Cuba.Dec 28, 2010. By imamid. In the capital city Cuba at HAVANA, today is celebrated as the barber. People gathered at Plaza Vieja for their hair cutting.The gathering was organized to celebrate the Barber day in Havana. Three hundred hair-stylists were also present at this occasion, with Scissors in hand, to celebrate this day. Read More

Wrestler Mijain Lopez named best athlete in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">18:55, December 28, 2010. Heavyweight greco-roman wrestler Mijain Lopez was named Best Athlete in Cuba for 2001-2010, the weekly newspaper "Trabajadores" reported on Monday.Lopez, categorized at 120kg, is the first four-time world champion in Cuban fighting, having won Budapest 2005, Baku 2007, Herning 2009 and Moscow 2010. He also won the Olympic Games at Beijing 2008.Other athletes selected include Osleidys Menendez in javelin, Yumisleidis Cumba in shot put, Yipsi Moreno in hammer throw and Dayron Robles in 110m hurdles. Read More

Cuba’s plan to shop talent may not help MLB

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Jeff Passan, Yahoo! Sports.Pedro Luis Lazo retired from baseball the day after Christmas. A horse-drawn carriage took him into the stadium in Pinar Del Rio where he and Jose Contreras(notes) once formed the most fearsome pitching duo in the history of the Cuban league, Serie Nacional. Nearly a decade ago, Contreras fled Cuba for the riches of Major League Baseball. Lazo stayed. Read More

Cubans hail new US rules on money transfers

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cubans hail new US rules that let remittances avoid 10 pct exchange surcharge.Andrea Rodriguez, Associated Press, On Monday December 27, 2010, 4:58 pm EST. HAVANA (AP) -- Cubans who rely on remittances from abroad are hailing a U.S. policy change that means they now can receive transfers in the island's convertible currency instead of dollars, sidestepping a 10 percent exchange surcharge. Read More

Cuban ballerina Alonso gets top teaching prize

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuba's Prima Ballerina Alicia Alonso arrives at the headquarters of Cuba's National Ballet to receive the 2010 National Award of Education in Arts in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)Cuba's Prima Ballerina Alicia Alonso arrives at the headquarters of Cuba's National Ballet to receive the 2010 National Award of Education in Arts in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes) Read More

Rouen Opera Orchestra of France to Play in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Dec. 27 (Prensa Latina) A large group from the Rouen Opera Orchestra of France is readying for a trip to Cuba, where they will perform twice in early January.Thirteen musicians, including Cuban clarinetist Lester Chio, will be leading "this beautiful adventure," as it was described by Frederic Roels, general and artistic director of the Rouen Opera."As far as I know, this will be the first presentation in Cuba of the Gran Partita by Mozart, a genius whose music is very much appreciated in Cuba. However, this piece is rarely performed," Chio told Prensa Latina. Read More

Authentic Cuba Travel Votes for Different kind of Tourism in 2011

<p style="text-align: justify;">Authentic Cuba Travel Votes for Different kind of Tourism in 2011: Educational, Cultural, Nature, Architecture and Festival Tours for Discerning Trave. Even though each year nearly 2 million tourists travel to Cuba, they hardly have the chance to get to know the authentic Cuba that lies beyond the confines of all-inclusive full-packed tourist resorts. Once back home, those travelers realize they have hardly “traveled” to Cuba. It might have been a nice and low cost package vacation from the cold weather, but they do not know much about Cuba’s culture and its people. Read More

Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame to be Open in Matanzas

<p style="text-align: justify;">Autor: Hugo García | Fuente: www.jrebelde.cubaweb.cu | 27 de Diciembre 2010. The Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame was inaugurated on December 26 at Palmar de Junco stadium in the province of Matanzas. Read More

Cuban Baseball Turns 136 Years

<p style="text-align: justify;">Escrito por Yllen Riquelme. lunes, 27 de diciembre de 2010. Havana, Dec 27 (Prensa Latina) A day like today back in 1874 the first official baseball game was played in Cuba. A team from Havana defeated the Matanzas host 51 runs to 9 at Palmar de Junco field in Matanzas province. Although baseball was practiced in Cuba before that date, as it is shown in a decree in 1868 signed by governor and captain general Francisco de Lersundi forbidding its practice, that was the first game recorded and covered by the press. Read More

Carlos Acosta at the Dressing Room

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta, leading star at the Royal Ballet of London, took part in a tour around Cuba, by the end of which he offered some testimonies to one of his old neighbors.Jorge Petinaud Martínez. “I was also born in Los Pinos, near the stadium”, I told Carlos Acosta in the dressing room of the Gran Teatro de La Habana by the end of the show with which he closed his first tour around five Cuban provinces. Read More