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Archive - May 11, 2011

Ivanchuk and Domínguez Head Elite Group of Capablanca

<p style="text-align: justify;">Ukrainian chess star Vassily Ivanchuk and the best Latin American player of the moment, Cuba’s Leinier Dominguez, head the Elite Group of the 46th Capablanca Memorial scheduled for May 11-22 in the Cuban capital.Ivanchuk, the defending champion and who has won the annual tournament on four occasions, places fifth in the world ranking of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) with an ELO rating of 2776 points —the highest of all participants this year.For his part, Dominguez places 21st in the world ranking with 2726 units. Read More

Students from Boston’s Berklee College of Music on a Tour of Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.10 - 20:48:54 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Havana, Cuba.- Students from Boston’s Berklee College of Music are presently on a tour of Cuba. On this, their second visit to the island, they will carry out an intense program of concerts, participate in the 2011 edition of Cubadisco –Cuba’s International Record Fair and Contest-, and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the creation of the piece Musica para danza by Juan Blanco (1919-2008), the so-called architect of electro-acoustic music in Cuba and Latin America. Read More

Cuban Pianist Harold Lopez Nussa on a Tour of Europe

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.10 - 20:53:01 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Havana, Cuba.- Young Cuban pianist Harold Lopez Nussa will perform on May 13 at the New Morning Club in Paris, the French capital, a place where jazz and musical diversity find their highest expression.Presently on a tour of Europe, the Cuban artist recently won the 2011 Jazz Talent Prize granted by Adami, a society for the collective administration of performers’ rights, considered a passport to the greatest European music festivals, the Granma newspaper reported. Read More

Prominent Journalist and Writer Jorge Timossi Died in Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.10 - 20:23:20 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Havana, Cuba.- Journalist and writer Jorge Timossi, founder of the Prensa Latina news agency and winner of the “Jose Marti” National Journalism Prize for the work of a lifetime, died on Monday in Havana at the age of 75.Timossi, a skilled and audacious reporter, covered numerous international events, among them the US invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965, the revolutions of Libya and Iran, and the fascist coup against President Salvador Allende in Chile, the National Television Newscast reported. Read More

Cuba: Increase of Air Operations in Villa Clara Favor Tourism

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.10 - 15:51:04 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Hotel Barcelo, Santa Maria key. SANTA CLARA, Cuba.- With the arrival this month of British tour operators Tomson and Tomas Cook, traveler flow at Villa Clara’s Abel Santamaria International Airport and the presence of tourists in the keys off north this central region of Cuba keeps going up. Read More

Cubadisco Festival Honors Cuban Plastic Artists

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.10 - 18:16:49 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.- Cuban plastic artists Miguel Angel Botalin and Alberto Lescay received the Cubadisco 2011 Honor Award in Santiago de Cuba, the city to which the Festival is dedicated this year and also venue of the event.In the first official activity of the Cubadisco Festival, the most important contest of the Cuban recording industry, the two artists –confessed music lovers– were acknowledged for their contributions to the national identity particularly to music albums as a comprehensive cultural product, through their designs. Read More

Cuba to outline oil plans at drilling conference

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Kevin Gray. MIAMI, May 10 (Reuters) - Cuba hopes to counter U.S. worries over its plans to start its first full-scale offshore oil exploration in a rare presentation this week to an energy audience outside the island nation.Officials involved in Cuba's oil project are expected to discuss drilling plans and safety standards during a two-day meeting of international drilling contractors opening on Thursday in the Caribbean country of Trinidad and Tobago. Read More

Cuba's fertility rate less for population replacement

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Larry Moonze in Havana, Cuba. Tue 10 May 2011, 21:30 CAT.The Cuban National Bureau of Statistics and Information has said the country’s overall fertility rate is less than what is needed for population replacement.Bureau director for centre for population and development studies Juan Carlos Alfonso Fraga said by 2030 Cubans aged 60 years and above would account for approximately 31 per cent of the total population. Read More

Reforms in Cuba May Result in a Rise in Cuban Tourists

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Mark Johanson | May 10, 2011 6:46 PM GMT. For the first time in over 50 years, Cuba appears set to allow its citizens to travel abroad as tourists.&nbsp; The proposal is one of the main novelties in over 300 reforms backed by the Communist Party Congress and released in new economic guidelines.&nbsp; Others include access to bank loans or other financial services and the ability to buy or sell private property such as cars and houses.&nbsp; By half-heartedly opening the doors to private business activity, the proposals are designed to rescue the economy. Read More

South African businesses negotiating deals

<p style="text-align: justify;">Some 40 South African business executives were in Havana May 9 to negotiate deals in construction, manufacturing, technology and services, Cuban official media reported.The South African delegation — put together by the Progressive Business Forum, an organization affiliated with the governing ANC party — was headed by Deputy Finance Minister Nhlanhla Musa Nene. Read More