Pernod loses Havana Club appeal in USA

<p style="text-align: justify;">US: Pernod Ricard has lost an appeals court ruling over the Havana Club trademark.The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a decision that states the company has no rights to renew the Havana Club trademark in the US. Bacardi, who owns the US trademark, applauded the ruling.A statement from Bacardi spokeswoman Patricia Neal said: “Bacardi USA, Inc. applauds the US Court of Appeals for confirming that the Cuban government had no “vested right” to the renewal of the Havana Club trademark registration in the US, and that the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Read More

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Coffee will be planted in the plains in effort to boost production of a once-plentiful crop

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuban forestry officials have launched a project to plant coffee in the valleys of Las Tunas province, according to the newspaper La Demajagua. Normally, coffee is grown in mountainous regions.Twenty hectares (about 50 acres) will be seeded with robusta coffee, "a variety characterized by good yield and adaptability to flat lands," the paper says. Eight one-hectare plots (2.5 acres each) will be seeded in other cities in Las Tunas "as an experiment and a demonstration" to encourage individual planters. Read More

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Cuba to train 250 Ghanaian doctors -Mahama

<p style="text-align: justify;">April 4, 2011 6:07 pm. Vice President John Dramani Mahama, on Thursday, said the Cuban government had offered to train 250 students to become medical doctors for a five-year period.“The students will be selected from deprived communities of the country, and they will return after training to work in those communities, to help eliminate child and maternal mortality among other challenges, to ensure quality health delivery,” he said. Read More

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Cuba Classifies Complete Teams for Pan Am Games Judo Events

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.04.04 - 13:40:18 / radiorebelde.Cuba. - Cuba will participate with complete teams —in both sexes— in the judo tournament of the upcoming Pan American Games of Guadalajara, Mexico, next October.The Caribbean judokas secured their presence in Guadalajara with an outstanding performance in the Pan American Judo Championship that concluded on Sunday precisely in that Mexican city.In the individual competition, Cuba topped the standings with eight crowns, two silver and three bronze medals (5-1-1 in women’s and 3-1-2 in men’s). Read More

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Foreign Scientists Granted ACC Degrees from Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Por Yllen Riquelme.Havana, Apr 3 (Prensa Latina) Scientists from 15 countries are corresponding members of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba (ACC), a degree given to those who do not live in Cuba and contribute to the development of its specialties.Sergio Jorge Pastrana, secretary of foreign relations of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba, said to AIN that since the year 2000 that institution began to grant those degrees and the scientists who have received them are from Argentina, Barbados, Colombia, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Trinidad and Tobago. Read More

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Spanish, Colombian officials ‘not concerned’ about ETA, ELN members in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">The ambassadors of Spain and Colombia told former President Jimmy Carter during a three-day trip to Cuba that their governments were not concerned about the presence of former terrorists from both countries on the island.Carter has repeatedly urged the Obama Administration to take Cuba off the “State Sponsor of Terrorism” list. Cuba’s inclusion in the list effectively blocks even minor improvements in bilateral relations.At a meeting in Havana with foreign ambassadors representing Spain, Canada, Hungary, Mexico, the United Nations, European Union, Sweden, Brazil and Colombia, Carter “raised the question of the terrorist list,” he wrote in a report for the Carter Center after the trip. Read More

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Church group back from Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Joyce Hento, left, and Cheryl Epp look at photographs from their recent trip to Cuba with a group from Glenview Nazarene Church. -- NEWS PHOTO EMMA BENNETT. Medicine Hat News. The 13 members of the Glenview Nazarene Church who had gone down to Cuba at the beginning of March gathered Sunday with another church group who had been to Trinidad to share their experiences. Read More

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CG Repatriates 22 Cuban Migrants

<p style="text-align: justify;">April 03, 2011. U.S. Coast Guard. MIAMI -- The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Ocracoke repatriated 22 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba, April 2.Coast Guard Sector Key West, Fla., watchstanders received notification from a good Samaritan that they were on scene with a rustic vessel with Cuban migrants aboard approximately 12 miles southeast of Boca Chica Key,Fla., Sunday.&nbsp; A Coast Guard Station Key West boatcrew was launched, and once on scene, embarked the 12 Cuban migrants. Read More

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Marina owners talk about collaboration

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Joe Shooman. 4 April 2011. Marina owners in Jamaica, Cuba and the Cayman Islands are discussing closer working practices.Dale Westin of Errol Flynn Marina in Port Antonio, Jamaica, Neville Scott of Barcadere and Comodoro Jose Escrich of the Marlin group of marinas in Cuba met unofficially at the Miami Boat Show to talk about the possibilities of pursuing joint promotional and marketing initiatives, revealed Mr. Scott.“It’s not like we’re a cruise association or a formal organisation of which we three are a part. It’s still in its infancy, something we are discussing and something [for which] we haven’t really formalised a written agreement. Read More

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Heavy Oil Tech, Drilling at Geociencias-2011 Convention

<p style="text-align: justify;">Havana, Apr 4 (Prensa Latina) Heavy oil and horizontal drilling will be presented in Cuba''s 3rd Oil and Gas Congress, to co-run with the 4th Cuban Convention on Earth Sciences (Geociencias-2011).The April 4-8 event in Havana's Conventions Center will feature debates among experts of Latin America, Canada, Europe and Asia on deep water oil exploration and production in the Gulf of Mexico, and the 5th International Workshop on oil and gas geology SE the Gulf of Mexico. Read More

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