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Archive - May 18, 2011

Cuban crewmen safe after sinking

<p style="text-align: justify;">Ten Cubans members of an 11-men crew aboard a tugboat that sank off the coast of Portugal are safe, official daily Juventud Rebelde reported.The Cubans aboard the Panama-flagged “Antártico” had been hired by a Spanish company, Latin Crew S.A., on behalf of Boluda Corporación Marítima S.A., which operated the tug boat. The Cartagena-based Antártico was pulling a floating dike to the Spanish port of La Coruña when it sank in the Atlantic Ocean. Read More

Good to go: Cuba, Madrid, Kefalonia

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuba's jewels: Wednesday, 18 May 2011. With its jungles, Caribbean beaches and historic towns, a trip to Cuba is ripe with opportunity. Virgin Holidays is offering a one-week stay at the three-star Hotel Telegrafo (above), which was built in Havana's colonial Old Town in 1860, for £599 per person. Based on departures from Gatwick on 19 or 22 June, the price includes flights with Virgin Atlantic and a buffet breakfast. Read More

Cuba Deep Water Wells May Boost Oil Output Six-Fold, Pinon Says

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Carlos Manuel Rodriguez - May 18, 2011 1:00 AM GMT-0400. Cuban deepwater exploration projects that will begin this year have a high probability of success and may increase the island nation’s oil output by more than 500 percent, said Jorge Pinon, energy fellow at the University of Miami Center for Hemispheric Policy.If successful, the new round of exploration may lead to production of 200,000 to 300,000 barrels of oil a day, Pinon said in an interview yesterday in La Jolla, California. Cuba imported 96,000 of oil a day in 2009 while it produced 47,500 barrels daily, according to a presentation from Pinon. Read More

Cuban plans to lift remaining restriction against hiring non-relatives

<p style="text-align: justify;">The last requirements on hiring only relatives will be lifted, the Cuban government announces. By Juan O. Tamayo.elnuevoherald.com. The Cuban government has agreed to expand the types of private businesses allowed to hire non-family members as employees,in an apparent attempt to speed up the push to create new jobs for the 1.3 million public employees it plans to lay off.A report in the official Granma newspaper Tuesday said the Council of Ministers also reported that tax collections and the sugar harvest had improved, but hinted that high world oil and food prices will force the government to tighten its already cinched belt this year. Read More

Cuba and Norway Sign Cooperation Agreements

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.17 - 19:14:50 /radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Cuba and Norway Sign Cooperation Agreements. Havana, Cuba.- The governments of Cuba and Norway signed this Tuesday in Havana cooperation agreements on different fields that will strengthen relations between both countries. One of the documents was a memorandum of understanding between their foreign ministries to establish a mechanism for bilateral consultation. The agreement was signed by Ingrid Fiskaa and Ramon Ripoll Diaz, respective deputy ministers for foreign relations of the European country and Cuba. Read More

Party group seeks end of state food monopoly

<p style="text-align: justify;">The head of a group affiliated with the Communist Party is advocating an end to the state food distribution monopoly, according to official daily Juventud Rebelde.The Acopio state monopoly remains an “unresolved topic,” Orlando Lugo Fonte, president of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP), told the Communist Youth newspaper. “If in Cuba there is private and diversified production, you can’t have monopolized distribution. We have to look for many ways of buying and selling. If you ask me, it must be direct.” Read More

Documentary on Cuban New Song Movement Screened at Cubadisco 2011

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.17 - 10:30:35 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Documentary on Cuban New Song Movement Screened at Cubadisco 2011.SANTIAGO DE CUBA.-&nbsp; The first scenes of the documentary “Trova de Oro”, on the history of the Cuban New Song Movement, had its premiere in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, as part of the program of activities of the Cubadisco 2011 Music Festival.&nbsp; The Casa de la Trova of Santiago was the chosen spot for screening some of the interviews filmed almost seven years ago during the a visit of U.S. producer Cynthia Biestek. Read More

Fuego Enterprises Announces U.S. Tour of Legendary Cuban Music Group David Calzado y La Charanga Habanera

<p style="text-align: justify;">Press Release Source: Fuego Enterprises, Inc. On Tuesday May 17, 2011, 9:35 am EDT. MIAMI, May 17, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fuego Enterprises, Inc. (Pink Sheets:FUGI - News) announces the U.S. tour of popularly acclaimed Cuban music group David Calzado y La Charanga Habanera. The tour includes nine performances beginning May 26, 2011 in New York City and concludes with the final performance on June 17, 2011 in Miami, Florida. Read More

Pianist Frank Fernandez Premieres Suite in Santiago de Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">The renowned pianist and composer Frank Fernandez made the debut of his Suite for Two Pianos at the Teatro Heredia, of this city, during the opening concert of the International Fair Cubadisco 2011.Fernandez played this set of dances with one of the pianos pre-recorded by himself, and expects a reaction to the Conga de Mediodía, a piece inspired by a concert the Los Hoyos group gave five years ago.The virtuoso exponent of the Cuban school of piano clarified that in no way it is exactly like creating the sound of the conga quake, but it is a profile of imprint that this manifestation of the music and dance cultivated in Santiago de Cuba caused. Read More

Cuban Academy of Sciences Grants Award to Vatican Official

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.17 - 12:48:38 /radiorebelde.icrt.cu. HAVANA, CUBA.- Monsignor Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences of the Vatican, received a diploma that recognizes him as Academician of the Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC).ACC president Ismael Clark Arxer presented Monsignor Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo with the diploma and a medal commemorating the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the ACC during a ceremony held on Monday at the Havana-based Center of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering with the presence of personalities from 14 countries. Read More