Archive - Dec 9, 2006
Pledge to deepen relationship
Barbados and Cuba are keen to deepen relations 34 years after formally establishing diplomatic ties. Having already forged major links in education, culture, sports, health, agriculture, the environment and other areas, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Teresa Marshall, expressed a desire to improve what already existed, while looking for new opportunities.
2014 Games candidates pitch IOC
Seven months before the vote, officials from three cities vying for the 2014 Winter Olympics face a key test Friday when they make campaign pitches to an influential European audience.
Garcia Marquez at Cuba Film School
Colombian Nobel Prizewinner Gabriel Garcia Marquez headed the homage for the 20th anniversary of the San Antonio de los Baños International Movie and TV School in south Havana.
Da Hitmen presents Reggaeton Latino
Reggaeton, the tropical mix of hip-hop and dancehall, has become hotter than a Caribbean heatwave. Don Omar is one of the sources of heat, who has contributed heavily to the transmission of this fairly new genre among American audiences.
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Cuban cyclists heading for Costa Rica
Four-time Cuban cycling champion, Pedro Pablo Perez, heads a squad of nine athletes to compete in a competition in Costa Rica scheduled for December 18 to 29.
Hippocrates Meets Fidel, and Even U.S. Students Enroll
The Latin American School of Medical Sciences, on a sprawling former naval base on the outskirts of this capital, teaches its students medicine Cuban style. That means poking at cadavers, peering into aging microscopes and discussing the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power 48 years ago.
Cuba lit course for native tongues
Misquito and Mayangna indigenous peoples of the Nicaraguan Atlantic coast will be taught how to write and read in their own languages, supported with the Cuban literacy method Yo Si Puedo, Orlando Pineda, coordinator of the program said.
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Ralph Fiennes talks to film students in Cuba
"My passion for theater led me to be actor," said distinguished actor Ralph Fiennes to students at Cubas International Film and Television School, located some 50 kilometers from Havana in the town of San Antonio de los Banos.
Chile University honors Alicia Alonso
Chile s University of Arts has bestowed upon Cuban Prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso the title of Honorary Professor and the Chancellor s Medal. Those decorations were respectively given on Thursday by Alvaro Cruz, dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Victor Perez, rector of that higher education center.
Cuba updates report on Caribbean Sea contamination
Cuba is one of the first Latin American countries to have finished a report on the Caribbean Sea pollution affecting national coasts.
Cuba, IAEA eye measuring Caribbean Sea water quality
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Caribbean Environment Network (RAC) are considering a plan to measure Caribbean Sea water quality, RAC chief Antonio Villasol announced on Thursday.
Dominica's prime minister heads to Cuba for surgery
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit will travel to Havana this weekend where Cuban doctors will remove a metal pin from his right leg, the Caribbean island's prime minister said yesterday.
Cuba and China build eye clinic in Qinghai
China and Cuba have joined together to build an ophthalmologic hospital in the northwestern Chinese province of Qinghai. The China-Cuba Friendship Ophthalmologic Hospital of Xining, the provincial seat of Qinghai, has a constructed area of 4,000 sq. meters, with 80 beds and a staff of 135, including 52 from Cuba.
