Cholera Outbreak in La Cienaga, Santo Domingo

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Estela McCollin.11:28Santo Domingo, May 15 (Prensa Latina) An fresh outbreak of cholera has been officially admitted in La Cienaga, a populous neighborhood in Santo Domingo, said Listin Diario Sunday editorial, claiming an official source and urging for an emergency plan to prevent further spread.Other parts of the Dominican Republic have confirmed deaths by cholera from the epidemic outbreak in Haiti. This outbreak of Vibrio Cholerae has been blamed for at least eight deaths along numerous of victims of all ages. Read More

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Active Agenda of Cuban VP Lazo in Haiti

<p style="text-align: justify;">Esteban Lazo, Vice-president of the Cuban Council of State, met on Friday with Haitian President Rene Preval in Port-au-Prince, an occasion when they focused on the fruitful bilateral relations of cooperation existing between Cuba and Haiti.The Cuban leader thanked Preval for the granting of Haiti’s top decoration to the Cuban Medical Brigade for its work in the struggle against the serious cholera epidemic that Caribbean nation is suffering since October, the Granma newspaper reported on Saturday. Read More

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The Berklee College of Music Awarded the Cubadisco International Prize

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.14 - 18:52:57 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. The Berklee College of Music Awarded the Cubadisco International Prize. Santiago De Cuba, Cuba.- The Berklee College of Music of Boston, will receive in this city the Cubadisco International Prize for its album Mtcd: 10 Music Technology Division Production Projects.In an exclusive interview with ACN, Neil Leonard, professor with that US center who heads a delegation of young musicians of the Berklee Interarts Ensamble now visiting Cuba, said that “it’s a great honor to be acknowledged in this way, more so if we take into account the musical richness of the island.” Read More

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SOUTH AFRICA: Cuba helps to train rural doctors

<p style="text-align: justify;">Sharon Dell. 15 May 2011. South Africa's high-profile programme involving the training of medical students in Cuba is part of an urgent national drive to increase the number of doctors being produced by the skills-short country. The government is also pushing universities to boost the number of home-grown medical graduates.One of the main drawcards of the Cuban system was its emphasis on primary health care and prevention in a country with a large rural population, according to national health department spokesman Fidel Hadebe. Read More

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Mateo salutes heritage with ‘Cubania!’ premiere

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Keith Powers / Dance Review. Sunday, May 15, 2011. For most Americans, Cuba is unknown. Two generations have gone by without any cultural exchange with our island neighbor, and we are certainly poorer for that.Jose Mateo, a native Cuban and now longtime American, produced his third dance program inspired by the music of his native island Friday evening at the Sanctuary Theatre. And “Cubania,” with two older ballets and a world premiere, gives us a contemporary update of the remarkable aesthetic heritage that is going unnoticed. Read More

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Cubans march against homophobia in Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Associated Press.Saturday, May. 14, 2011 - 12:23 pm. Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuba's President Raul Castro, center, is surrounded by marchers at the start of a parade honoring International Day Against Homophobia in Havana, Saturday May 14, 2011. Headed by Mariela Castro, Cuba will hold events on the rights of homosexuals and transvestites in support of the International Day against Homophobia, celebrated annually on May 17.HAVANA -- Cubans have held a short but colorful parade celebrating sexual diversity to mark the International Day Against Homophobia. Read More

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As communist rules adapt to the times, chic new restaurants transform Cuba's culinary scene

<p style="text-align: justify;">A restaurant boom is sweeping Havana under new rules that make it easier to run "paladars," with a wave of new private eateries opening since January 2011. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes) PETER ORSI Associated Press. 12:47 p.m. EDT, May 14, 2011. HAVANA (AP) — La Moneda Cubana, which sold groceries, snacks and liquor, is back in business in the heart of Old Havana. But now, under the management of grandson Miguel Angel Morales Menendez, it's an elegant restaurant, one of dozens that have sprung up as the country struggles to adapt its communist system to modern economic realities. Read More

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Silvio Rodriguez Sings to Havana's Neighborhoods

<p style="text-align: justify;">By JR / radioangulo.icrt.cu / Saturday, 14 May 2011 12:47. Silvio Rodriguez Dominguez, a founder of the New Song in Cuba and Latin America, refuses to become a star and goes on singing to the people living in the communities in Havana. Singer and songwriter Silvio Rodriguez keeps on singing to the people living in the communities located in the outskirts of Havana city, who sometimes feel away from the main cultural centers of the Cuban capital. Read More

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Cerys visits the country of Castro, Communism and cigars

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Our Correspondent, Western Mail.May 14 2011. SINGER Cerys Matthews goes to the island of Cuba in the first of a major new series about some of the world’s most fascinating islands.The documentary about the largest Caribbean island, part of the series Yr Ynys (The Island), on Tuesday, starts a journey that also takes us to the islands of Fiji, Cyprus, Zanzibar, Iceland and the Galapagos.Six Welsh celebrities take us to these islands. “Cuba is a country that has always enchanted me,” says Cerys. Read More

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Cuban Vice President to Bicentenary of Paraguay

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: glenda pardo.09:49Havana, May 14 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Vice President Gladys Maria Bejerano heads her country''s delegation to the celebrations for the bicentenary of the independence of Paraguay, to be held Saturday and Sunday in Asuncion, the capital. Read More

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