Cuba's Int Book Fair Starts in Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">PL . The fair will honor the cultures of eight countries that make up the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America. Cuba's Int Book Fair Starts in Havana. The fair will honor the cultures of eight countries that make up the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America.The 20th International Book Fair in Cuba opens Thursday at Havana's Morro-Cabaña Park, with more than 200 guests from 41 countries, including Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchu. Read More

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Cuba goes digital

<p style="text-align: justify;">More than five decades after the Cuban revolution, the Caribbean island has embraced the digital revolution. A high-speed fibre optic Internet cable connecting Cuba with Venezuela arrived on the island on Wednesday.It was brought ashore in a ceremony attended by dignitaries from both countries.Officials say it will provide a connection speed 3,000 times faster than at present. Read More

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ITU Secretary-General Condemns US Blockade of Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 9 (acn) The Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Hamadoun Touré, condemned the US economic blockade imposed against Cuba and the violation of the Cuba’s radio-electric spectrum by the United States, Prensa Latina news agency reports.Toure, who is participating in the 14th International Convention and Fair on Informatics 2011 (Informatica 2011), affirmed that solving this issue is part of the working agenda of the organization. Read More

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Harsher Measures for Cubans who Drive under the Influence of Alcohol

<p style="text-align: justify;">Harsher Measures for Cubans who Drive under the Influence of Alcohol. The new Cuban road safety law to be in force soon will have harsher measures for those who drink while driving, one of the main causes of accident in Cuban roads. Read More

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Bread running short at bakeries in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Entrepreneurs may be buying up flour on the black market, causing bread shortages.HAVANA, Cuba — Like air and water, or free health care and education, state-subsidized bread is regarded as a natural right in socialist Cuba. Read More

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Grenada’s Parliament President Meets with Cuba’s Ambassador in Saint George's

<p style="text-align: justify;">News The World Grenada’s Parliament President Meets with Cuba’s Ambassador in Saint George's. Cuba’s ambassador to Grenada, Angel Reigosa, was received by Parliament President George McGuirre, an occasion that served to hold exchanges on relations between the two countries. Read More

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Cuban Arts Festival Announced Today

<p style="text-align: justify;">February 9, 2011. From March 31 to June 16, more than two dozen artists will participate in “¡Sí Cuba!,” a comprehensive Cuban arts festival that will take place in venues throughout&nbsp; New York, with the collaboration of 14 of the city's arts institutions. Read More

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Cuba to Open New Training Centers for Firefighters

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.02.09 - 11:31:47 / radiorebelde.Cuba to Open New Training Centers for Firefighters.HAVANA, CUBA.- The Firefighters Corps of Cuba will soon open new professional training centers in the central and eastern regions of the country, announced on Tuesday Nestor Martinez O’Farrill, head of Preparation and Training of this institution. Read More

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The Arts of Cuba, Set to Wow New York

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Cuban rumba and dance troupe Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, scheduled to be part of the “¡Sí Cuba!” festival coming to New York this spring.Published: February 8, 2011. The Cuban rumba and dance troupe Los Muñequitos de Matanzas hasn’t performed in New York in nearly a decade. Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, which mixes Afro-Caribbean dance and classical European ballet and was founded in 1959, has never been to the United States. Neither have the socially conscious photographers Adonis Flores and Cirenaica Moreira. Read More

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Senior executive willing to revive ferry service from Florida to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Bruce Nierenberg, a senior executive in the cruise industry for more than three decades, hasn't been to Cuba since 1979 when Jimmy Carter was president."We were invited to come down to look at putting a cruise ship in there that would have sailed from Miami. Shortly thereafter, the administration changed and things got conservative again." Nierenberg said he believes it's time to try again to revive ferry service from Florida to Cuba. It would give Cuban-Americans a cheaper way to travel to the island to visit their families, he said. Read More

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