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Archive - May 28, 2011

Cuba to drill oil in Gulf of Mexico

<p style="text-align: justify;">English.news.cn&nbsp;&nbsp; 2011-05-28 11:28:56. HAVANA, May 27 (Xinhua) -- Cuba expects to soon start drilling exploratory wells in the Gulf of Mexico and produce four million tons of oil and gas in 2011, a Cuban oil industry official said Friday."This year the oil production is surpassing the plan," said engineer Rafael Tenreyro Perez, exploration manager at the state-run company Cubapetroleo (CUPET).He said the island nation is extending its cooperation programs with foreign partners in the Gulf of Mexico and also on land. Read More

Cuba Bids Farewell to Nuncio

<p style="text-align: justify;">Castro Joins in Thanking Archbishop Becciu. HAVANA, Cuba, MAY 27, 2011 (Zenit.org).- With a solemn Mass Monday in Havana's cathedral, the Church in Cuba bid farewell to the apostolic nuncio, Archbishop Giovanni Becciu, whom Benedict XVI has moved to a key post in the Secretariat of State.The 62-year-old prelate received the gratitude of President Raúl Castro for his contribution to current relations between the Vatican and Cuba, which he called positive. Read More

U.S. Internet company launches Cuban document service

<p style="text-align: justify;">After a one-year test run with dozens of customers, a Massachusetts-based company officially launched a service for Cubans living abroad to obtain legal documents from the island.Cubans living in the United States and Spain often need birth, marriage or death certificates for immigration and citizenship purposes, or to apply for a Cuban passport. Beyond mobilizing family and friends in Cuba, formal options for document retrieval are limited. Read More

Parlatino Commissions Meet in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">26 de mayo de 2011, 17:24 Havana, May 26 (Prensa Latina) Representatives from 17 countries are discussing regional issues, including childhood, economy and health, in three commissions of the Latin American Parliament (Parlatino).Secretary of the commissions, Daisy Tourne, said that in spite of cultural differences in the area, many problems related to those issues affect the whole continent. Read More

Cuban Specialist Construction Engineers To Work With Ministry Of Public Works

<p style="text-align: justify;">May 26, 2011. An agreement has been reached between the Government of Antigua and Barbuda and the Republic of Cuba for the provision of four specialist engineers to work with the Ministry of Public Works and Transport.During a meeting on Tuesday in Cuba, Minister of Public Works and Transport the Honourable Trevor Walker and his Cuban counterpart the Honourable Rene Perez Villafaña commenced discussions on the arrangements for the arrival of the experts. Read More

Cuba, Pioneer of Meteorology in the Caribbean

<p style="text-align: justify;">Mildrey Ponce. Located on one of the heights surrounding Havana Bay, a beautiful white sphere is patently obvious to navigators, visitors and local residents.Tucked away under the singular globe of concrete is nothing less than the meteorological radar of Cuba’s National Observatory. Since the seventeenth century there were people who, without having any knowledge of meteorology, took notes when a hurricane hit anywhere in Cuba. Read More

Baracoa to receive high award to its historian as its own

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Ariel Soler C. The ancients city in Cuba received as if it were for them the Orden of Civil Merit, given by Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, to Alejandro Hartmann, historian of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Baracoa. In declarations made to AIN, after reaching a few hours ago his birth city of Baracoa (Guantanamo province), the multi-award winner researcher dedicated his recognition to the 500 years of existence of the First Cuban Village, founded by Diego Velázquez on August 15, 1511. Read More

Cuban Hammer Thrower Yipsi Moreno Remains Undefeated in Brazil

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.27 - 13:55:44 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. HAVANA, CUBA.- Cuban hammer thrower Yipsi Moreno won the gold medal at the Caixa Athletics Grand Prix that took place on Thursday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and in the process remained undefeated in a series of track and field meetings in that South American nation. The Cuban 2008 silver Olympic medalist registered 74.26 meters and continued improving her results as she relegated Argentinean Jennifer Dahlgren (72.26m) and German Kathrin Klaas (71.44m) to the second and third spots, respectively. Read More

Cuba announces tax break for private businesses

<p style="text-align: justify;">By PAUL HAVEN, Associated Press. Fri May 27, 11:43 am ET. HAVANA – Cuba announced new measures Friday to spur the island's push into private enterprise, instituting a moratorium on payroll taxes for small business owners and loosening limits on the size of private restaurants.Under the new guidelines, anyone who hires between one and five workers will not be subject to payroll taxes during 2011.The measure was adopted at a recent Cabinet meeting chaired by President Raul Castro and announced in Friday's issue of the Communist Party newspaper Granma. Read More

Meow! Could Cuban blue become new cat breed ?

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Jeff Franks. Reuters. updated 5/26/2011 8:36:43 PM ET 2011-05-27T00:36:43. HAVANA — In a Havana apartment, four silvery gray cats race around the floor and tumble over the furniture playing with each other, occasionally jumping into the laps of their human visitors. Read More