Ted Nash in Havana, Cuba

Posted: 2011-01-02. Ted Nash. We are thrilled for Ted Nash and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for the recent opportunity to perform in Havana, Cuba.Check out a preview here of Ted Nash's interview by 60 Minutes in Havana which will air in its entirety on Sunday, January 2, 2011.Also, we'd like to offer our heartfelt congratulations to Ted Nash and the Jazz at Lincoln Center for its release “Portrait in Seven Shades" which has been nominated for two Grammy's! Read More

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Jamaica to serve as Cuban eye care hub

<p style="text-align: justify;">By HG HELPS Editor-at-Large [email protected]. Friday, December 31, 2010. JAMAICA is to serve as the Caribbean hub for the Cuban eye care programme, which has reached out to thousands of people in the region, Cuba's minister of foreign affairs has said. Read More

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Cuban Internationalism As Engaged Empathy

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Gary Olson. Z-Net. Z-Communications. Friday, Dec 31, 2010. A physician who leaves Sierra Leone for South Africa can earn 20 times as much. Higher pay in English-speaking countries lures medical graduates from India (10.6% of doctors), Pakistan (11.7%), Sri Lanka (27.5%), and Jamaica (41.7%). Only 50 of 600 doctors trained in Zambia remained there after independence. There are more Ethiopian doctors in Chicago than in Ethiopia. Read More

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Cuba sets to migrate to free, open-source software

<p style="text-align: justify;">19:48, December 29, 2010. Cuba has set a strategic goal in 2011 to migrate most of its computers to open-source software, a move designed to strengthen the country's technological security and sovereignty. Once the migration is fully implemented on the ground, the Cuban Nova Linux will be the operating system used in 90 percent of all working places, and Microsoft Office will be replaced by Open Office in all government institutions, Vice Minister of Information and Telecommunications Boris Moreno told Xinhua Tuesday. Read More

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Carlos Acosta at the Dressing Room

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta, leading star at the Royal Ballet of London, took part in a tour around Cuba, by the end of which he offered some testimonies to one of his old neighbors.Jorge Petinaud Martínez. “I was also born in Los Pinos, near the stadium”, I told Carlos Acosta in the dressing room of the Gran Teatro de La Habana by the end of the show with which he closed his first tour around five Cuban provinces. Read More

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Cuban medics in Haiti put the world to shame

<p style="text-align: justify;">Castro's doctors and nurses are the backbone of the fight against cholera. By Nina Lakhani. Sunday, 26 December 2010. Jacklin Anore, 24, a cholera patient at the Cuban-run Nicolas Armand hospital in Arcahaie, north of Port-au-Prince. Cuba has some 1,200 health workers currently in Haiti. They are the real heroes of the Haitian earthquake disaster, the human catastrophe on America's doorstep which Barack Obama pledged a monumental US humanitarian mission to alleviate. Read More

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Cuba loves Chevrolets and GM needs sales, What's wrong with this picture?

<p style="text-align: justify;">By David J. Climenhaga. December 24, 2010. Charles Erwin Wilson.HAVANA, Cuba. Charles Erwin Wilson, president of America's largest automaker through World War II, was more than half right when he remarked, "What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa." So, how dumb are our American cousins, anyway? Read More

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Cuba’s dwindling Jewish community fighting for its life

<p style="text-align: justify;">By liz harris, staff writer. Thursday, December 23, 2010.J. assignment editor Liz Harris visited Cuba in October with the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco’s travel program. The group met with members of the Cuban Jewish community and toured Jewish sites of interest during a 10-day humanitarian mission to Havana and outlying areas. Read More

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Cuba Offers Poor Medical Students a Free Ride

<p style="text-align: justify;">On Wednesday's NewsHour, Ray Suarez wraps up his series on Cuba with a look at its medical diplomacy efforts around the world. HAVANA, Cuba. In an old naval academy on Havana's western shore, thousands of low-income students from around the world -- including 100 from the United States -- are getting a free medical education thanks the Cuban government.The Latin American Medical School, "ELAM" in Spanish, was conceived by former President Fidel Castro following Hurricanes George and Mitch, which devastated parts of Central America and the Caribbean in 1998. Read More

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Cuba's Emphasis on Preventive Medicine

<p style="text-align: justify;">SUMMARY: Ray Suarez continues his series from Havana with a report on the Cuban health care system's emphasis on preventive medicine.RAY SUAREZ: One of Cuba's greatest prides is its health care system. Cuba's government promotes the country's free and universal medical care from the moment a baby is born as the cornerstone of its communist state.And, according to the World Health Organization, the country has much to boast about. The average Cuban lives to the age of 78. Read More

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