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Archive - Sep 1, 2011

U.S. Newborn Death Rate Higher Than Cuba, Malaysia

<p style="text-align: justify;">Newborn Death Rate. The Huffington Post. Simon McCormack&nbsp;&nbsp; First Posted: 8/31/11 12:45 PM ET Updated: 9/1/11 10:02 AM ET A new report from PLoS Medicine has disappointing data for the developing world and the United States. U.S. babies are more likely to die during the first month of life than babies born in dozens of other countries, including Poland, Cuba and Malaysia, CBS notes. Read More

Cuba Faces Mexico in Quarterfinals of Men’s NORCECA Championship of Volleyball

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.01 - 10:37:25 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Cuba Faces Mexico in Quarterfinals of Men’s NORCECA Championship of VolleyballHAVANA, CUBA.-&nbsp; Cuba lost on Wednesday to the United States 1-3 (24-26, 25-23, 25-23, 25-17) and missed the opportunity to advance directly to the semifinals of the Men’s North, Central American and Caribbean (NORCECA) Volleyball Championship that is under way in the Puerto Rican city of Mayaguez. Read More

Cuba: The times are changing

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuba has taken a dramatic step away from its socialist policies of the past, but how has this impacted ordinary Cubans? People and Power Last Modified: 31 Aug 2011 08:07. At the beginning of this year, the Cuban government took a dramatic step away from its socialist policies of the past to break new ground: it began privatising its economy to create private sector jobs and issued thousands of licences for its citizens to start their own businesses. Read More

Cuba Mutual Fund Jumps Most in Three Weeks After Report on Castro’s Health

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Jonathan J. Levin - Aug 31, 2011 4:59 PM GMT-0400. The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund, a closed-end mutual fund that aims to profit from a resumption of U.S. trade with Cuba, surged the most in three weeks after a newspaper report that former President Fidel Castro’s health had deteriorated. Read More

Live at La Zorra y El Cuervo Jazz Club in Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">By JazzTimes. The Insight Cuba organization is partnering with JazzTimes to offer cultural exchange trips to Cuba so that American jazz fans can experience Cuban music through person-to-person contact. The Havana Jazz Experience program features 8 day/7 night trips every month. In addition, Insight Cuba and JazzTimes has organized a special trip to the Havana International Jazz Festival on December 15-18, 2011. Read More

Horford’s 24 points lead Dominicans 90-60 win over Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">31 August 2011, 9:41 AM.Horford weaves. Photo elcaribe.com.do. Mar del Plata, Argentina.- NBA star Al Horford’s 24 points o Tuesday led Dominican Republic’s team to a 90-60 win over Cuba in the basketball pre-Olympic of the Americas’ inaugural game. Horford opened with a dunk for the game’s first point, in the tournament that will supply two qualifiers for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Read More

CUBA: Is buying a car or a house possible?

<p style="text-align: justify;">07/27/11 By Leonardo Padura Fuentes (*) HAVANA, Jul (IPS) Cuba may be the only country in the world whose citizens have, for half a century now, not been allowed to freely acquire a car or a home. Indeed the very words have a very different connotation on the island. As a part of the egalitarian policies of the state, which has exerted total control over most of the property in the country, the socialist government,during its fifty years in power, has emitted a series of laws and regulations which, originally intended to limit the amount of property a person could accumulate and to reform the way real estate can be held. Read More

Cuba Keeps Reviving Rail Sector bus tren

<p style="text-align: justify;">Havana, August 29 (KCNA) -- The Industrial Fixtures Company has produced 104, 000 concrete sleepers up to present as part of the strategy to revive Cuba's rail sector, according to Prensa Latina on Aug. 25. The head of that enterprise, based in the province of Villa Clara, noted that this figure covers more than half of the planned number of concrete sleepers to be built this year.KOREA NEWS SERVICE(KNS) Read More

Curious about Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Aug 29, 2011. By Alexandra Christopoulos. Anticipating the warmth of the sun and the delight of spending these final, fleeting summer days on a beach, I will always remember first being greeted in Cuba by a thunderstorm. Day one and it was already raining. Of course, this happened while blissfully unaware that hurricane Irene was coming. But perhaps the interminable clouds in the sky at the time were a reminder of why I made it there in the first place. Read More

Unexpected results of two stars in Daegu

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.08.31 - 13:49:33 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. The unexpected disqualifications of Jamaican Usain Bolt and Cuban Dayron Robles, cast a shadow over the first days of the 2011 World Championships of Athletics, underway in the South Korean city of Daegu. An inexplicable false start by the fastest man on Earth in the 100-meter dash was a bolt from the blue for his followers at the stadium and all over the world; and history changed without this charismatic sprinter.&nbsp; Read More