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Cuban students with physical-motor disabilities are competing in the Fifth Para-School Games underway in Havana.

Committed to doing a journalism from a Revolutionary stance, the professionals of the mass media in Camagüey, eastern Cuba, will meet Friday in their Provincial Assembly, prior the 8th Congress of the Association of Cuban Journalists (UPEC).

The Havana-based Casa de las Americas will soon celebrate its 50th anniversary -a cultural institution devoted to the promotion of the art and identities of all the Latin American and Caribbean peoples.

The 28th Tourism Fair opened with a performance by the Cuban National Ballet at the Grand Theater and on Tuesday moves to the El Morro Fortress overlooking the Havana Bay.

Pro-Environment Work Brigades to Be Formed in Cuba. This summer, Cuban university students will work on the cleaning up of their communities and universities

The 3rd Traveling Cuban Book Fair is on a tour of five cities in the Dominican Republic, attracting people to various parks, where tents with books are set up.

The theater company La Colmenita finished their participation on the fourth edition of the International Festival of Children’s Theater in this capital city, even though their tour around the country lasted until May 4.

Four sound pieces, circulated during the past two years, were distinghished with the 2008 Cubadisco International Award, because of the cultural importance of their contents.

Jamaican Prime Minister Orette Bruce Golding concludes Wednesday a three-day official visit to Cuba to expand bilateral links. His agenda included meeting with Cuban President Raul Castro and visiting scientific research sites.

Maestro Fernando Alonso, one of the most relevant figures in the history of Cuban ballet, received on Wednesday the Benois Dance Prize at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Russia, for his artistic career.

Philosophers from around the world, attending the Fourth International Conference on the Life Work of Karl Marx and Challenges of the 21st Century, discussed the ideas of Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

The Portuguese tour operator TerraCuba signed agreements with the Caribbean Island to operate tourist trips to Cuba in conjunction with the company HAVANATUR.

The World Organization of Industrial Property (WOIP) recognized Cuba’s Environmental Stamp in March of this year subsequent to an application by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA). With this acknowledgement, the island has made another vital step toward gaining preference for its products in increasingly competitive international trade.

After winning three Olympic and six World titles, which earned him the nickname of “boxeador historia” (legendary boxer), Cuba’s Félix Savón Fabré now has his hands set on conquering the artistic world.

For 50 years he has perforated wood, metal, linoleum and stone, teaching his pupils the secrets of engraving and becoming one of the most outstanding promoters of this art in Cuba during the second half of the twentieth century.