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Archive - Jan 25, 2011

Cuba to hold 13th cigar festival

<p style="text-align: justify;">English.news.cn. 2011-01-25 11:23:37. HAVANA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- More than 1,000 cigar lovers and experts have confirmed their attendance to the 13th Havana Cigar Festival, which will be held on Feb. 21-25, president of the organizing committee Oscar Basulto said on Monday.The event, organized by Habanos S.A. and Tabacuba Business Group, is devoted to honor the famous cigar brands of the island "Montecristo," "Partagas" and "H. Upmann," said Basulto. Read More

Cubans Closer To Getting Online

<p style="text-align: justify;">January 2011. Industry Trends And Developments. Cuba is set to finally be connected to the information superhighway as the deployment of a fibre-optic submarine cable gets under way. A boat carrying the 1,630km cable arrived in Venezuela on January 16 and the cable deployment should take two weeks to reach Siboney in Cuba and be operational by June or July 2011.BMI believes this an exciting development in the Cuban telecoms market, although we caution that growth is unlikely to take off significantly for a number of reasons. Read More

US Cuba relations conference in Washington DC

<p style="text-align: justify;">Posted January 24, 2011 by Publisher in US Embargo. Press Release. Call for Immediate Steps to Improve Relations with Cuba.A conference sponsored by the Center for International Policy. Read More

Cuba Exceeds Electric Power Generation Plan with Sugar Cane Biomass

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 24 (acn) Workers from the Cuban sugar cane agribusiness sector contributed to the saving of oil during the so-called short sugar cane harvest,by exceeding by 8 % its plan of electric power generation with sugar cane biomass. Read More

Inside Cuba, small businesses ramp up tourism offer

<p style="text-align: justify;">CIENFUEGOS, Cuba | Mon Jan 24, 2011 1:42pm EST. CIENFUEGOS, Cuba (Reuters) - Cuba's recent easing of red tape for private enterprise is improving services for tourists in provincial towns on the Caribbean island, with hundreds of new restaurants and lodgings opening up. Read More

Lawmaker Aims to Block Cuba Oil Drilling Near Florida Coast

<p style="text-align: justify;">January 24, 2011. FoxNews.com.Rep. Vern Buchanan, a Republican who represents part of Florida's western coast, has introduced a bill aimed at blocking Cuba from drilling a new deepwater oil well in the waters off its northern coast. Read More

Fourth wind farm starts operating in eastern Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Monday, 24 January 2011 12:56. The Gibara II wind farm starts operating full. Photo: cubasolar.cuThe Gibara II, the fourth wind farm established in the country which is located in the Cuban province of Holguin, started operating to its full capacity on Monday. Read More

Cuba ends trial in deaths of psychiatric patients during cold snap; prosecutors ask 6-14 years

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA - Cuban prosecutors are seeking six- to 14-year prison terms for workers at the island's largest hospital for the mentally ill, where 26 patients died during a cold snap. Read More

Memorable Concert by Buena Vista Social Club and Omara Portuondo in Pinar del Rio

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.01.24 - 12:34:01. PINAR DEL RIO, CUBA.- Cuban diva Omara Portuondo and the Buena Vista Social Club —a project that in 1996 brought together veteran artists to become one of the most important Cuban musical phenomena of the past 50 years— offered a memorable concert on Sunday at the Milanes Theater of the westernmost province of Pinar del Rio.Omara and Buena Vista performed anthological songs such as “20 años” by Maria Teresa Vera, “Nosotros” by Pedro Junco and “Amigas,” written by Alberto Vera for Omara, Elena Burke and Moraima Secada when they sang in the Las D’Aidas quartet, founded in the 1950s. Read More

Cuban Biotechnology in the Interests of Everyone

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 20 (acn) Jose Miyar Barruecos, Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA), highlighted this week in Havana that the progress of Cuban biotechnology has contributed to the achievements made in human health since the first stage of life.As an example, he said that Cuba closed 2010 with an infant mortality rate of 4.5 per every 1,000 live births, the lowest figure in Cuban history and lower than that of Canada, which puts the island in place 28 on a list of 195 countries. Read More