Jamaica Cuba/Eye Care screening next month

<p style="text-align: justify;">Jamaica Observer. Friday, April 29, 2011. THE Jamaica/Cuba Eye Care Programme will be conducting screening sessions in the parishes of Kingston and St Andrew and St Ann during the month of May. Screening sessions will begin at 8:30 am each day.Persons will be screened for the following pathologies only: cataracts, pterygium and diabetic retinopathy. Read More

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Nuncio to Cuba due for Vatican promotion

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Roman Catholic nuncio to Cuba, Archbishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu, is in line to become the Vatican's Deputy Secretary of State, the Italian newspaper La Stampa reported Friday.The appointment would be made official in May, the newspaper said, without stating who will replace Becciu in Havana. Read More

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Iran, Cuba firm to deepen ties

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, April 29 (MNA) -- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast held separate talks with Cuban foreign minister’s deputies Ana Teresita Gonzalez Fraga and Marcos Rodriguez Costa on Wednesday morning in which the sides expressed their willingness to strengthen ties.In talks with Teresita Gonzalez Fraga, Mehmanparast said Tehran and Havana share common views and concerns on various international issues and this “can lay the groundwork for strengthening bilateral relations” especially in economic areas. Read More

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First Cuban cosmonaut receives award from Russian gov't

<p style="text-align: justify;">English.news.cn. 2011-04-28 15:29:09. HAVANA, April 27 (Xinhua) -- The visiting vice leader of the Russian State Duma Wednesday conferred the "Russian Order of Friendship" on Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez, the first Cuban and Latin American cosmonaut. Read More

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Orlando Bosch, accomplice of Posada Carriles, Died today in Miami

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 27 (acn) Orlando Bosch, the man who along Luis Posada Carriles masterminded the 1976 terrorist bombing in mid air of a Cubana jetliner that claimed 73 innocents lives, died today in Miami, according to a communiqué released on behalf of his relatives by the local El Nuevo Herald daily.Luis A Chirino. Bosch died from a “long and painful disease” which was not detailed in the communiqué. He was 84 years old. Read More

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Solomons To Open Embassies In Cuba, Geneva

<p style="text-align: justify;">Wednesday, 27 April 2011, 10:17 am.Press Release: Solomon Star. Solomons To Open Embassies In Cuba, Geneva. Welfare of Solomons students abroad a prime concern. HONIARA, Solomon Islands (Solomon Star, April 26, 2011) - Solomon Islands will open two new foreign missions next month, one in Cuba and another in Geneva, Switzerland. Read More

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Caulfield chosen to head Cuba mission

<p style="text-align: justify;">WASHINGTON, April 27 (UPI) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has approved the selection of veteran diplomat John Caulfield to head the U.S. mission in Cuba, officials said.Caulfield, currently the head of the U.S. Embassy in Venezuela, will replace Jonathan Farrar who has been in Cuba for the past three years, the Miami Herald reported Wednesday. Read More

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UN Highlights Cuba's Help to Chernobyl Victims

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: leana Ferrer Fonte .United Nations, Apr 26 (Prensa Latina) More than 25,000 people, including 21,340 children, have benefited from the Cuban humanitarian program for victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the United Nations reported Tuesday.The information is included in a letter addressed to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon by Cuba's permanent mission to the UN on the 25th anniversary of that tragedy. Read More

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UNESCO: ALBA to Back Haitian Cultural Reconstruction

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Raquel Maria Garcia Alvarez. Member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) in UNESCO expressed their commitment to the new reconstruction phase in Haiti through culture.The ALBA´s willingness was expressed by Bolivian Ambassador to UNESCO Pablo Groux during a conference held at the UNESCO headquarters, where 15 reconstruction projects needing urgent donors´ support were presented. Read More

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Another International Prize for Cuba’s Heberprot-P

<p style="text-align: justify;">radiorebelde.icrt.cu. HAVANA, Cuba. -The Cuban product Heberprot-P received the prize to the Best Young Inventor during the recently concluded 39th edition of the International Exhibition of Inventions held in Geneva, Switzerland, after winning scarcely a month ago the Gold Medal given by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).Maria de los Angeles Sanchez, director of the Cuban Office for Patent Rights, said that over 1,000 inventions in all branches of science and technology, coming from some 45 nations, were presented during the event, considered to be one of the most prestigious of its kind in the world, the Granma newspaper reported on Friday. Read More

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