Cruise industry leader plans a ferry service from Tampa to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Port of Tampa says "Si" to Cuba.By: Brendan McLaughlin. TAMPA - The Port of Tampa is saying "si" to the idea of a ferry service from Tampa to Havana.At least two shipping companies are preparing bids to take passengers and their cars on an overnight cruise to Cuba.And though this would revive a route that was well travelled before the cold war, it will remain illegal for most of you reading this story to take that trip. Read More

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Frederich Cepeda at the top in Home Runs

<p style="text-align: justify;">Thursday, March 17, 2011. It doesn't get any better than this. With only seven games left in the clasifying phase of Cuba's 50th National Baseball Series, there is a triple tie of home run leaders. Frederich Cepeda (Sancti Spiritus), Yoenis Céspedes (Granma) and José Dariel Abreu (Cienfuegos). Each one has 28 home runs now. Read More

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Cuba has a tuberculosis rate of seven cases per 100,000 inhabitants

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, March.17 (Xinhua) -- Cuba has an incidence rate of seven tuberculosis (TB) cases per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the lowest in the world, according to figures released by the Public Health Ministry on Thursday, the World Tuberculosis Day."This achievement is the result of the systematic monitoring and treatment programs developed by the health authorities after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959," Antonio Marrero Figueroa, a member of the National Ministry of Public Health Respiratory Diseases, said. Read More

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US Airport Secures Approval for Flights to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">16 March 2011. The US Government gave approval to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida, US, to offer charter flights to Cuba.Charter provider Airline Brokers is planning to deploy an A320 aircraft with a 150-passenger capacity and offer flights from Fort Lauderdale, starting in June or this summer. Read More

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Labiofam to build larvicide plant in Ghana

<p style="text-align: justify;">Ghana and Cuba signed a memorandum of understanding to expand a comprehensive malaria-fighting program in the West African nation and its neighbors, the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation reported. Under the agreement, state company Grupo Empresarial Labiofam will expand a program begun in 2006 around the capital Accra to the entire country, and establish a production facility in the country that will supply Ghana as well as neighboring markets. The Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS) has adopted Ghana’s Integrated Malaria Vector Control project; Nigeria has used larger quantities of Labiofam-made bio-larvicides. Read More

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Fight Preview on Vitali Klitschko Takes on Cuba's Odlanier Solis

<p style="text-align: justify;">This Saturday from Cologne, Germany, Vitali Klitschko will once again defend his piece of heavyweight alphabet title pie against a talented but worrisome challenger from Cuba, Odlanier Solis.Before we get into it, let me again tell you how you can see the fight, particularly if you're in the United States. If you're in the UK, Sky Sports will have the bout as usual, and if you're in Germany, RTL is again the carrier. But in the U.S., it's a new entrant into the boxing fray, as Epix is going to air the bout live. Read More

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Cuban singer featured in new stamp series

<p style="text-align: justify;">Press release from the United State Postal Service:&nbsp; March 16, 2011 in Austin, Texas, the Postal Service issued a Latin Music Legends commemorative stamp in five designs, in a pane of twenty 44-cent stamps. The stamp was designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland. Read More

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Viñales, an Ecotourism Paradise in Western Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Viñales' gorgeous landscape attracts visitors from all over the world. Viñales Nacional Park, famous for its jurassic mogotes (Karst mountains) in the westernmost province of Pinar del Rio, receives every year thosands of Cuban and foreign visitors, who go over caves and roads, surrounded by living fossils, such as palma corcho (cork palm). Read More

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SAM SAYS: Behind the voice that has launched a thousand trips

<p style="text-align: justify;">Sometimes the people behind our huge Canadian travel industry are as fascinating as the destinations they take us to.When Colin Hunter sings "Come Fly with Me," he means it. While you were boarding the plane, the chairman of the board of the Sunwing Travel Group was singing to you, and when the plane reaches altitude, tune in to channel 10 on your armrest and relax to his seductive, soothing, crooning voice.Colin Hunter's journey into singing didn't happen overnight. His mother talked of him humming and swaying to music at two, and in his youth he sang in jazz clubs. Read More

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Tiger Tina cruises off for Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">17 March, 2011. It has been three months but Tina the Tiger has decided to leave Grand Cayman and go on tour.The tiger shark had a location tracking satellite tag attached to her, which has been giving updates on her movements regularly.Tina was tagged as part of a collaborative project between the Department of Environment, Marine Conservation International, the Guy Harvey Research Institute and the Save Our Seas Foundation. Read More

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