Cuba & Canada Develop Forest Fire Warning System

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, May 10 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) - A cooperation project between Cuba and Canada gives Cuba an early alert system to minimise damage from forest fires.This initiative is based on the analysis of satellite images and is supported by the Cuban Meteorology Institute in data processing, said national coordinator Juan Alberto Herrero. Read More

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US: Cuban migrants reach islands near Puerto Rico

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Associated PressAP – A U.S. immigration official says 23 people claiming to be Cuban citizens have landed on two uninhabited islands off Puerto Rico's west coast.Customs and Border Protection spokesman Jeffrey Quinones says the migrants were found on Mona Island and nearby Monito Island. The islands are closer to the Dominican Republic than Puerto Rico but both are considered U.S. territory. Read More

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All Africa Games - Team Nigeria to Train in South Africa, Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Jude Opara. 10 May 2011. Abuja — The National Sports Commission (NSC) has concluded arrangements that will see Nigerian athletes for the 10th All Africa Games train in South Korea and Cuba as well as some European countries.Director General of the NSC, Dr. Patrick Ekeji who disclosed this in a chat with Champion Sports said the training tour which is billed to put the athletes in proper shape both physically and mentally for the contest will last for at least 50 days before they arrive in Maputo, Mozambique for the games which will take place in September. Read More

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Mirta de Peralis, who found success in cosmetics industry, dies at 88

<p style="text-align: justify;">Mirta de Peralis, one of the first Hispanic women to find success in the U.S. cosmetics industry, dies at 88. BY ARTURO ARIAS-POLO. Mirta de Perales, one of the first Hispanic women to find success in the cosmetics industry in the United States, died from Alzheimer’s on May 3 in her Miami Beach residence. She was 88.Rich and famous in Cuba until 1962, when she left her country to come to the United States with her two children and barely $5 in her purse, De Perales resumed her career in Miami by making a living styling hair and doing pedicures, as she had in her younger years. Read More

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Gamechanger in US- Cuba Relations - Massive Oil Discovery Off Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuba is the only country in the world to have already learned how to live with the end of the age of oil. After the US oil embargo of Cuba, the country had to fend for itself, creating an almost completely oil-free economy.The blockaded nation went on to radically reinvent agriculture, and evolved a fix-it economy that rivaled that of the US during the Great Depression. Mechanics learned the skills needed to fix up the old 1950s cars that remained on the island, miraculously keeping them going on the occasional trickle of oil, for decades after they had become mere museum pieces in the US. Read More

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Cuba-Venezuela Projects Benefit Animal Health

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.08 - 17:37:24 /radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Havana, Cuba.- Cooperation projects between Cuba and made it possible to train South American producers, technicians and specialists in the control of pests and diseases affecting animals and plants.These exchanges favor mutual assimilation of technologies and the obtaining of new products and services of high added value, asserted on Friday Master of Sciences Tania Rivas, of the National Center for Plant and Animal Health (CENSA), one of the Cuban institutions participating in the program since 2005. Read More

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Mexico Grants Ariel Award to Cuban Film on the Life of Jose Marti

<p style="text-align: justify;">By AIN / radioangulo.icrt.cu / Monday, 09 May 2011 11:56. "Jose Marti, the Eye of the Canary" has won several awards.The&nbsp; Mexican Film Academy has just granted the movie ‘Jose Marti: el ojo del canario’ (Jose Marti: the Eye of the Canary) the coveted Ariel Award, which adds a new acknowlegdement to the movie produced by Cuban filmmaker Fernando Perez.‘Jose Marti: el ojo del canario’, which narrates the early years and adolescence of the Cuban writer and independence hero, won in the category of Best Iberian-American Film of the 53rd Ariel Awards, a distinction shared with the movie “Tambien la lluvia”, by Spanish Iciar Bollain. Read More

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Cubadisco Special Prizewinners Show Commitment with Cultural Heritage

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.09 - 15:13:31 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Cubadisco 2011. HAVANA, Cuba.- The awarding of Cubadisco 2011 Special Awards revealed the commitment of the Festival’s organizers with the island’s heritage and the values that bring together the cultures that have been cast aside by hegemonic powers.<br /> The prizes were the prelude of the Cubadisco Festival to be hosted by the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba from May 14-22. Read More

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Door to Cuba opens for students here

<p style="text-align: justify;">BY MATT WILHALME Staff Reporter,suntimes.com May 9, 2011 02:13AM. Christina Perez, a teacher at Dominican University, is taking a class to be one of the first to study abroad in Cuba under new travel regulations. They meet on Sunday, May 1, 2011 in River Forest. | Richard A. Chapman~Sun-Times Karen Delgado will board an airplane for the first time in her life Friday and head to a country that most people in the United States aren’t allowed to visit: Cuba. Read More

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Salsa dancing draws tourists to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Shasta Darlington, CNN. May 9, 2011 -- Updated 1442 GMT (2242 HKT) Havana (CNN) -- Young and old burn up the dance floor at Havana's Las Cañitas nightclub every weekend. On a recent Saturday night, half of the dancers twirling to the latest salsa hits were from Switzerland.Cubans pride themselves on their intricate, hip-swiveling moves and can usually tell the difference between locals and foreigners."See, look at him. He needs to move his hips more," a young Cuban woman shouted over the blaring sound system as she watched the Swiss tourists. Read More

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