Cuba writes off US$1M Guyana debt

The Government of Cuba awarded Guyana a US$1 million debt write-off at the recently concluded 23rd Session of the Guyana/Cuba Joint Commission held in Havana from November 22 to 23. A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and International Co-operation said the debt originated as a result of an outstanding amount under the credit agreement signed on March 18, 1986 between the then Guyana National Co-operative Bank (GNCB) and Banco Nacional De Cuba (BNC). Read More

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Palestinians seek visas to Cuba

Travel agents in the Gaza Strip are reporting a brisk demand for visas to Cuba -- one of the few places that welcomes Palestinians -- often as the means of getting to a third country. Driven by fear of civil war and increasingly bleak economic prospects, Palestinians are fleeing their violence-wracked lands in growing numbers. Many are skilled and educated, and are leaving behind an increasingly impoverished and fundamentalist society. Read More

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Delahunt heads to Cuba for talks

U.S. Rep. William Delahunt will be among a group of 10 Republican and Democratic congressmen traveling to Cuba tomorrow in what they hope will become the first step in normalizing relations. "It's time to engage in discussion about issues that separate Cuba and the U.S.,'' said Delahunt, D-Mass., a strong critic of the Bush administration's policies toward the island nation. Read More

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The pictoric exhibits Wifredo Lam

Orichas, which was recently on view at the Galerie Thess Herold, París, directly influenced in the iconic deepness noticed in the appropiation of symbolic files of visions having an African origin, like the santeria. Read More

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Spanish actress Mercedes Sampietro in Cuba

Spanish actress Mercedes Sampietro, protagonist of the new Cuban film La edad de la peseta (The Silly Age), is in Havana for the 28th New Latin American Cinema Festival that officially concludes on Friday. Sampietro is attending the popular event this year because of her lead role as Violeta in the first fiction film by young Cuban director Pavel Giroud. Last year she was a member of the jury. Read More

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Havana: a major tourist destination in Cuba

The Cuban capital, which has a population of two million, is a major tourist destination in the country. According to official statistics, nearly 50 percent of foreign vacationers who visited the Caribbean Island this year chose the Cuban capital, as well as Varadero and Jardines del Rey (King's Gardens), as their favorite destinations in the country. Read More

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Cuba designs program against cardiovascular diseases

Cuban health authorities expect to reduce the number of deaths due to cardiovascular diseases by 30 percent, as a result of a nationwide program that is currently underway. In order to achieve that goal, authorities are promoting activities to encourage healthy habits, improve diagnoses, train the medical staff, educate the people, and develop epidemiologic and medical research. Read More

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Transtur presents new tourist options in Varadero

The entrepreneurial group Transtur, attached to Cuba's Ministry of Tourism, has presented new options in the beach resort of Varadero. As part of the company's efforts to meet the demands from clients, Transtur is offering the Varadero Beach Tour. Read More

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Presenting homage disc Con el permiso de Bola

Cuban musicians Francisco Céspedes and Gonzalo Rubalcaba presented Wednesday evening , Dec 6, in Mexico City the disc Con el permiso de Bola they themselves co-produced. The phonogram is made in homage to the great musician Ignacio Jacinto Villa, Bola de Nieve (1911-1971), born in Guanabacoa, Havana and died in Mexico FD, while en route to Lima (Peru), where he would have several performances. Read More

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Gore Vidal in Cuba

I came to Cuba with my new knee to help breaking 40 years of embargo, said the North American writer Gore Vidal, who is visiting Havana until December 14th, after mentioning the distortion of information about the Island in his countrys media. Read More

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