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Archive - Mar 19, 2011

Cuba taking climate-change measures

<p style="text-align: justify;">The government should regulate new construction close to the sea, begin beach replenishment, and recover and protect mangroves, a comprehensive government study about Cuba’s exposure to the effects of climate change suggests. Rising sea levels justify “the need to design guidelines to mitigate the effects of rising sea levels,” Deputy Environment Minister Fernando González Bermúdez told Raúl Castro and the Council of Ministers, according to Granma. González made the remarks while presenting the results of a four-year long, comprehensive study about the dangers and coastal vulnerabilities of the island. Read More

WOMAD artists keeping traditional Cuban music alive

<p style="text-align: justify;">Sat, 19 Mar 2011. By Kim Choe. Cuba is known for three things: “Good cigars, good coffee, and good music.” This is the belief of singer Juan de Marcos González, and it’s hard to argue with him.The two Cuban groups at this year’s WOMAD festival have vastly different historical foundations, but both prove there is much more to their country’s music than the Buena Vista Social Club.But González’s links to Buena Vista are strong. His group, the Afro-Cuban All Stars, provided the backing for the 1997 landmark record. Read More

Cuba trip not just baseball

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Don Bodger - Cowichan News Leader Pictorial. March 18, 2011. Rhianna Pettapiece has already been there and done that, but it was just as exciting the second time around.Pettapiece, 17, a Grade 12 student at Chemainus Secondary School, made a return trip to Cuba with a Canadian contingent of female baseball players for a series of games against Cuban women’s teams as well as a cultural and learning experience.“We played really well this year,’’ said Pettapiece. “A lot of the players went last year as well.’’ Read More

Former President Aristide thanks Cuban doctors

<p style="text-align: justify;">Thanks Cuban Doctor's Help to his Country. HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 18 (acn) Haiti's former president and priest Jean Bertrand Aristide, who arrived this Friday in his country after being seven years on exile in South Africa, thanked Cuban doctors for their efforts in Haiti, specially in the fight against cholera. Read More

Obama requests budget increase for anti-Cuba operations

<p style="text-align: justify;">PRESIDENT Barack Obama has requested an increase in funds for his government’s operations against Cuba for fiscal year 2012, Prensa Latina highlights.The total of the money publicly requested from Congress by the White House to finance its anti-Cuba policies during 2012 increases to $62.24 million the combined budget for the U.S. Interest Section in Havana (USIS), the State Department Office of Cuban Affairs (OCA), USAID and Radio/TV Martí. Read More

Key moment as journalist takes stand in Posada trial

<p style="text-align: justify;">A New York Times contract employee who interviewed Luis Posada Carriles in 1998 testified Wednesday that Posada told her that small explosives were used in a series of tourists bombings but only to scare away tourists. Read More

Where the U.S.helps create the poverty, Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Dan Burkhardt, special to the Beacon. Fri., 3.18.11. When a catastrophe strikes somewhere in the world, Americans are the first in line to provide assistance. Whether in Japan today or in Haiti last year, the urge to help those in need is a national priority. As Americans, one of our core values is generosity. Read More

Chamber Music Festival in Holguin Soon

<p style="text-align: justify;">Chamber Music Festival in Holguin Soon. By Michel Hechavarria / radioangulo / Friday, 18 March 2011 13:27. Chamber music has a large audience in Holguin. Photo: Amauris Betancourt Holguin, the nicknamed Cuban City of the Parks,will host the 2011 Chamber Music Festival (March 27 – 30) which will be dedicated among others to Ana Gracia Tamayo, a cultural promoter from Mayari that brought to the world the noted pianist Frank Fernandez, but also to the 20 anniversary of Raul Camayd’s death and the Saborit trio of guitars. Read More

First aboriginal paleontopathology museum in Cuba to open in Matanzas

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.03.18 / radiorebelde/ First aboriginal paleontopathology museum in Cuba to open in Matanzas.Matanzas, Cuba. – Matanzas College of Medical Sciences and the local Historian's Office are finalizing details for the inauguration of the first museum of aboriginal paleontopathology.&nbsp; According to Dr Ercilio Vento, historian of Matanzas City, no less than 250 pieces will be exhibited in the first stage. They will prove the existence of diseases like pre-Columbian syphilis, tumors and other ailments that Cuban aborigines suffered.&nbsp; Read More

Pink Planet at Cuba’s gay oasis

<p style="text-align: justify;">On an ordinary weekend, Santa Clara’s social life centres on the main plaza, Parque Vidal. Seniors relax on benches or dance to live music, children ride around in miniature donkey carts, and young gay men hang out with friends. Many are students at the Universidad Central Marta Abreu de las Villas, a place that contributes to the city’s open-minded attitude.My tourism worker friend is pleased with the progress of LGBT rights in Cuba. Read More