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Archive - Jan 22, 2011

Cuban Capital Facing “Critical” Water Shortage

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA – The supply of potable water in the Cuban capital has reached its most critical state in the last 50 years, with more than 100,000 people dependent on tanker trucks for water and with sources of supply ready to collapse, Communist Party daily Granma said Friday. Read More

Venezuela improves interconnection with 994 miles of optical fiber to reach Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Caracas, 20 Ene. AVN .- Venezuela strengthens its international interconnection through the installation of 994.19 miles of optical fiber that will arrive soon to Cuba and will have branches to the Caribbean. The idea is to throw a cable by the bottom of the sea to establish a link that will improve drastically the telephone service and the Internet provided to the inhabitants of the island. During the presentation of the Annual Report and Accounts 2010 before the National Assembly, the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Hugo Chavez said that soon the installation of a submarine cable will begin from Venezuela to Cuba with branches to the Caribbean. Read More

Caribbean Touts Tourism Surge Not Seen Since '08

<p style="text-align: justify;">Friday, January 21, 2011.Associated Press. More than 23 million tourists visited the region in 2010, a nearly 5 percent increase from the 22.1 million that visited the previous year, according to the Caribbean Tourism Organization.The tiny eastern Caribbean islands of Anguilla and St. Lucia drew hordes of tourists from Canada and the U.S and posted double-digit increases. St. Eustatius, a speck of an island that was previously part of the Netherlands Antilles, got a big boost from European visitors. Read More

IOC awards broadcast rights in Cuba for London 2012 Olympic Games

<p style="text-align: justify;">IOC awards broadcast rights in Cuba for London 2012 Olympic Games. Indiantelevision.com Team. (22 January 2011 2:00 pm).&nbsp; MUMBAI: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has awarded free-to-air (FTA) television and radio broadcast rights in Cuba for the London 2012 Olympic Games to the Instituto Cubano de Radio y Televisión (ICRT).IOC president Jacques Rogge said: “Cuba has a strong Olympic tradition, and over the years Cuban athletes have achieved incredible feats at the Olympic Games. We look forward to continuing our partnership with the ICRT to make the London 2012 Olympic Games available on free television and radio to sports fans in Cuba.” Read More

Havana’s International Book Fair to Host its 20th Edition

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.01.20 - 19:32:38. International Book Fair. Havana, Cuba.- More than 2,000 books by Cuban and international authors will be soon hitting the book shelves at 16 book fair venues across the Cuban capital, when the Cuba 2011 International Book fair opens its doors on February 10. This 20th edition of the event, which will run until March 6, will be dedicated to the bicentenary of the first independence in Latin America, as well as to the 220th anniversary of the Haitian Revolution and the first declaration of the abolition of slavery. Read More

Cuba, Angola turn potential into cooperation programmes

<p style="text-align: justify;">Luanda – The Governments of Angola and Cuba have expressed availability to turn the economic, scientific and technical potential of the two countries into programmes of economic and entrepreneurship cooperation, with reciprocal advantages. Read More

Creole Choir of Cuba, The Sage

<p style="text-align: justify;">Jan 21 2011. ALAN NICHOL has the latest news on the roots music scene in the region. Creole Choir of Cuba. THE area in and around the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico – a region well acquainted with extraordinary natural forces – provides much of the inspiration and musical climate for this week’s round-up. Read More

Saving Hemingway's home in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">January 21, 2011. Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Ernest Hemingway hasn't lived here in over 50 years but Finca Vigia is still his home.In the garden there's his boat "the Pilar" used to hunt marlin and then Nazi subs off Cuba during World War II. Scrawled on a bathroom wall next to a scale are the daily records of what the writer weighed.Lizards and frogs he caught rest in jars filled with formaldehyde. Antelopes and water buffalo heads taken as trophies from African safaris decorate the walls. Yellowing Time and The Field magazines are still on the shelves.Now a museum, a visitor to Finca Vigia or "lookout farm," could be mistaken for thinking Hemingway might walk in the door at any second. Read More

How charter flights to Cuba would work

<p style="text-align: justify;">January 21st, 2011.Tampa Tribune (Florida). Here are key points regarding the new policy on Cuba charter flights: Q. Why are Tampa International Airport's prospects to host charter flights to serve Cuba promising? Answer: The airport meets qualifications the U.S. government has set to host the flights and the size of the local Cuban-American population favors Tampa.Q. Which airlines might fly between Tampa and Cuba? Read More

Cuba Aims at Receiving Almost 3 Million Visitors in 2011

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 21 (acn) Cuba announced in Madrid that about 2.7 million foreign visitors are expected to come to Cuba this year, as part of an ambitious project of the Cuban tourist industry, which expanded 4.2 % in 2010, reports www.cubasi.cu.Commercial manager from the Cuban Tourism Ministry (MINTUR by its Spanish acronym) Jose Manuel Bisbe noted that 2010 recorded good results in this sector, in spite of the complex current situation worldwide, with more than 2 530 000 foreign visitors.&nbsp; Read More