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Archive - Dec 8, 2010

Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development Event in CUBA

<p style="text-align: justify;">Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development in CUBA from February 12 - 20, 2011. Research Tour February 12 - 20, 2011.Globalexchange.org.Join us on this amazing tour and meet the Cuban policymakers and practitioners who have put in place one of the world's most hopeful alternative models for sustainable development! <em>It includes </em>tour of sustainable development projects in Havana and Old Havana Urban gardens and farmers' markets in urban and rural Cuba Meetings with staff of environmental education NGOs and Ministries Read More

In Cuba, Biotech Eyed for Potential Economic Boost

<p style="text-align: justify;">Ray Suarez, who is reporting for the NewsHour's Global Health Unit in Cuba, speaks with Jeffrey Brown about the country's changing economy, its booming medical research industry and health care system. Suarez returns to Havana for the first time since the Cold War to see how it has changed. Read More

Mission trip to Cuba opens eyes of Florence men

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Dwight Dana. Published: December 07, 2010.FLORENCE. Dr. Hunter Stokes and J. Parks Garrison said their recent mission trip to Cuba proved to be an eye-opening experience. Stokes, a retired Florence opthamologist, and Garrison, a retired oil company executive, detailed their visit during the Florence Golden K Kiwanis meeting Tuesday morning at Steve and Donna’s Restaurant. Read More

Club Friends of Danzón to preserve traditions

<p style="text-align: justify;">Over 50 thousand people from the 14 Cuban provinces are linked to the Clubs Friends of Danzon, a movement that preserve the cultural roots of the country through its national dance. Caridad Rodríguez, president of those groups, said to AIN that nowadays these associations make shows, theoretical meetings about the Cuban history and music and competitions. Read More

Forum on Cancer Begins in Havana on Tuesday

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.12.07 - 15:11:04 / [email protected]. Havana, Cuba.- Prestigious personalities and academicians from the Americas and Europe are meeting as of Tuesday in Havana in a Forum on Cancer to share experiences and new methods to control this disease.&nbsp; Read More

U.S. companies selling beans to Alimport, Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuban state food importer Alimport S.A. agreed to buy 20,000 tons of dry beans from U.S. companies, the Minnesota-based Northarvest Bean Growers Association reported. Read More

Zuma strengthens trading with Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">AP.December 7 2010 at 08:13pm. Cuba's President Raul Castro and South Africa's President Jacob Zuma walk in Revolution Palace in Havana, Cuba. Zuma is on an official visit to Cuba. Photo: AP Read More

Cuba sees surge in number of US tourists in 2010

<p style="text-align: justify;">Reuters. Published: 00:00 December 8, 2010. Gulf News.Increase follows ease on restrictions by Obama.Havana:&nbsp; More than 1,000 travellers from the US are arriving every day in Cuba on average, most of Cuban origin, making Havana's long-time foe its second source of visitors after Canada. Read More

North American Actress Julia Stiles in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">12/07/2010. Young US actress Julia Stiles enjoys here the 32nd Film Festival in Havana, where she arrived last Sunday maybe with the aim of going unnoticed, though without achieving it. Famous because of the role as Nicky Parsons in trilogy The Bourne Supremacy, she walked around the lobby of the Hotel Nacional, one of the main venues of this exhibition-event, which brings together filmmakers from over 20 countries and talked in Spanish with members of the organising committee. Read More

"Project Cuba" Revives Study Abroad Effort After 6 Years Hiatus

<p style="text-align: justify;">No Excuse for Being Ignorant’ about Caribbean Neighbor, Professor Says. Newswise — After a six-year hiatus due to stringent U.S. government controls on travel to Cuba by American citizens, MTSU’s Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures has revived its successful Cuba study-abroad program for summer 2011. The new program, called “Project Cuba,” has been retooled to fit new laws and is one of only a few such programs in existence nationwide. Read More