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Archive - Sep 13, 2011

Insight Cuba Announces Dynamic Line-Up of Enriching Fall Itineraries

<p style="text-align: justify;">NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., Sept. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Insight Cuba, the leading provider of U.S. authorized people-to-people travel to Cuba, is kicking off the fall season with a robust menu of eight itineraries. With more than 40 departures through the end of 2011, travelers can be amongst the first to explore the fascinating island nation legally in eight years. From history to music, culture, arts and even a rare opportunity to run a marathon in Havana, each program offers a different view on Cuba and its people. Read More

Cuba’s First Wheat Harvest Was Modest, Says Official

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.12 - 16:10:20 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. CIENFUEGOS, CUBA.-&nbsp; The first harvest of wheat in recent years in the central Cuban province of Cienfuegos was modest, according to a local official of the Agriculture Ministry. Grain expert Mario Scrubb told Prensa Latina news agency that the Cienfuegos farmers harvested two tons of seeds that will be used to sow some 70 hectare next November and December. Read More

Cuba Controls Dengue, Transmissible Diseases

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Ileana Ferrer Fonte.Havana, Sep 12 (Prensa Latina) The Pan-American Health Organization acknowledged Cuba, Chile and Uruguay as the three countries in the region where dengue is not an endemic disease because of their healthcare systems and active community participation. Cuban health authorities say there are no cases of autochthonous dengue outbreaks, and 21 dengue cases reported had been brought into the country by travellers from countries where the disease is endemic. The patients were treated in a timely manner, they said. Read More

Zuma urged to rethink Cuban envoy

<p style="text-align: justify;">September 12 2011 at 09:38pm. REUTERS. President Jacob Zuma has been asked to reconsider a reported decision to appoint Limpopo's former health MEC Mirriam Segabutla as ambassador to Cuba. The Democratic Alliance request came in the wake of allegations that Segabutla had allocated tenders worth R16 million to her friends. Read More

Cuba: Standoff at Havana church as dangerous as Waco

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Portia Siegelbaum . A top Cuban church official told CBS News the situation created by a Pentecostal pastor who has barricaded himself along with an unspecified number of followers in his former Havana church is "as dangerous as Waco," the 1993 FBI siege and assault on the "Branch Davidian" sect in Texas. The Cuban government on Sunday issued a statement on what it called "the unusual situation" in the Pentecostal Church in Centro Habana. The statement said more than 60 people, including 19 children and four pregnant women, were voluntarily locked in the building on a "spiritual retreat." Read More

Cuba air charters can’t escape politics

<p style="text-align: justify;">Companies that ferry travelers to Cuba are often targets of those who want to limit travel to the Communist island. BY MIMI WHITEFIELD.MiamiHerald.com. Ronelvys Gonzalez managed to balance a flat screen TV, a bicycle, baby stroller, playpen and bags of plastic-wrapped clothing on a single luggage cart as he waited to check in for a recent charter flight to Cuba at Miami International Airport. Read More

Japanese Experts Involved in Aquaculture Project in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Santiago.Cienfuegos, Cuba, Sep 12 (Prensa Latina) Japanese experts are providing advice for an aquaculture development project in the town of Santa Cruz del Sur in the central province of Camaguey. Sakaki Masanosuke, an official of the Rural Development Department of the Japanese International Cooperation Agency, told Prensa Latina it is a five-year program that will last until May 2013. Read More

Isabel, a Marquis in Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.12 - 08:12:46 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu / Havana, Cuba.-&nbsp; Havana is a picturesque city settled by unique people that in some way fill it with magic: my childhood´s memories have been enough proof of it. If I closed my eyes I could still get to see the honorable Gentleman from Paris, as everyone used to call him, as well as the crafty marquis or the witty “china” traveling in the local number 68 long-distance bus route. Read More

Cuba's Oil drilling project off Florida begins Nov 1

<p style="text-align: justify;">While it’s been the subject of rumor, gossip and misinformation for the last several years, this time it’s real: drilling off the north shore of Cuba is scheduled to begin November 1. Six wells are planned to be drilled with this rig by the various international companies who own exploration rights off the north shore of the island. Spanish energy company Repsol and its partners are now bringing the Chinese-built [drilling rig] Scarabeo 9 to a site off Cuba’s northwest coast, where it aims to drill as soon as November at a depth of more than 5,500 feet, deeper than the blown-out well that spewed 5 million barrels of crude into the Gulf last summer. Read More

Rene Gonzalez wants return to Cuba after prison, US objects

<p style="text-align: justify;">AP. By CURT ANDERSON. MIAMI (AP) — A former Cuban intelligence officer convicted of spying in the U.S. wants to return immediately to Cuba upon his release from prison next month, but federal prosecutors insist he must serve an additional three years of probation in this country. Phil Horowitz, attorney for 55-year-old Rene Gonzalez, said Monday he has asked U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard on humanitarian grounds to permit the probation to be served in Cuba. Horowitz noted that Gonzalez's wife cannot get a visa to visit him in the U.S.and that his two children and parents also live in Cuba. Read More