Cuba Beat Germany for London’s Basketball Tournament Title

<p style="text-align: justify;"><br /> 2011.05.21 - 20:38:30 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Cuba Beat Germany for London's Basketball Tournament Title (Photo: Juventud Rebelde) Havana, Cuba.- Cuba earned the top spot at the Guildford Invitational Tournament after three wins in as many games to claim the trophy, Eurosport reported.The Cubans held off the Germans, 58:51, tonight to wrap up their perfect campaign. Suchitel Avila (183-F-82) delivered 13 points and 9 rebounds to pace Cuba. Grabbing the initiative right from the start, the Cuban team held their opponents to 9 points in the first quarter to take a 7-point lead. Read More

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Antigua & Barbuda seeking air agreement, engineers

<p style="text-align: justify;">Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Spencer Baldwin will arrive in Cuba Monday for a four-day visit focusing mainly on economic issues.Among others, the small Caribbean nation seeks an air agreement for LIAT. The St. Johns, Antigua-based airline is planning to offer cargo service from 22 Eastern Caribbean airports to Cuba with same-day delivery.Spencer will also talk about Cuban students pursuing degrees at the Antigua and Barbuda Hospitality Training Institute, Antiguan students studying medicine in Cuba, and Cuba helping establish a diagnostic center at a hospital in St. Johns. Read More

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New US rules promise legal Cuba travel for many

<p style="text-align: justify;">By PETER ORSI, Associated Press Peter Orsi. HAVANA – The forbidden fruit of American travel is once again within reach. New rules issued by the Obama administration will allow Americans wide access to communist-led Cuba, already a mecca for tourists from other nations.Within months or even weeks, thousands of people from Seattle to Sarasota could be shaking their hips in tropical nightclubs and sampling the famous stogies, without having to sneak in through a third country and risk the Treasury Department's wrath. Read More

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Cuba honours Lamming’s work

<p style="text-align: justify;">Barbadian novelist and social commentator George Lamming. (FP) Sat, May 21, 2011 - 9:30 AM. Cuba has honoured famous Barbadian novelist and social commentator George Lamming with its recently-inaugurated Caribbean Hibiscus Prize.Lamming is the first recipient of the award.Granted by the Association of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC), the prize was awarded in recognition of “a lifetime’s work” by the novelist during his recent visit to Havana. Read More

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Cuban Tourism to Increase Connections with Air Nicaragua

<p style="text-align: justify;">The company Air Nicaragua will link Managua and Havana from next July, which will increase multi-destination travel, said the company Havanatur.The note recalls that the announcement was made by Minister of Tourism of Nicaragua Mario Salinas, who said that the flights will be scheduled three times a week. Read More

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Cuba to Declare “El Cobre” Town National Monument

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.21 - 14:05:52 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.- The Curator of the eastern Cuban province of Santiago de Cuba, Omar Lopez, announced that the town of “El Cobre” will be declared National Monument for its heritage and cultural values.Lopez pointed out that this place is likely to be included in UNESCO’s World Heritage Site List, given its significance in the history of mining, slavery and religion in this area. Read More

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Eliades Ochoa Praises Cubadisco 2011 in Santiago de Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Santiago, Cuba, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Eliades Ochoa, a living legend of Cuban music, praised on Saturday the 15th edition of the Cubadisco Fair in this eastern city, where he justly started his career over 50 years ago.Ochoa, who won a Grammy with the legendary Buena Vista Social Club, has been an inspiration for this fair, the most important of this kind in Cuba, and whose Honorary Award was conferred on him. Read More

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Cuba: Visitors Shine in Capablanca Chess Tournament

<p style="text-align: justify;">21 de mayo de 2011, 12:16Havana, May 21 (Prensa Latina) People have praised the high level of the Elite Group in the 46th Capablanca Memorial Chess Tournament now underway here, but the Premier Group also been exciting, with one round to go and a a tie between Grand Masters Mark Bluvshtein (Canada) and Emilio Cordova (Peru), Granma newspaper reported Saturday.The visitors were leading the Premier Group and have been a sensation despite their youth (23 and 20, respectively) and what many consider a lack of experiences needed to unseat veterans such as Yuniesky Quesada and Omar Almeida (Cuba). Read More

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Laura de la Uz, best actress in short movie festival

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Cuban actress Laura de la Uz has been awarded with the prize to the best female performance for her role in the short movie Los minutos, las horas (Minutes, hours) by the Brazilian director Janaina Marques, in the 12th edition of the Torrelavega International Short–Movie Festival (FICT in Spanish).The prize to the best male performance went ex aequo, for the first time in the history of the Festival, to the actors from Galicia Jorge Casas and Vicente De Souza for their roles in the short-movie by Iria López, Dos hombres y un suicidio (Two men and a suicide). Read More

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Spain: Cuban Bartender Gets the Crown at Latin American Cocktail Championship

<p style="text-align: justify;">Duanne Alen, a Cuban bartender from the Sol Cayo Coco hotel in Ciego de avila, grabbed the win at the First Latin American Cocktail Championship held at the Costa Adeje Gran Hotel, in Tenerife, Spain. In this competition, a continuity of the Pan-American event of this specialty attended by the most outstanding bartenders of Latin America, the Cuban representative also classified as the best in technique, the Opciones weekly highlighted on Friday on its Web site.A worker of the Sol Cayo Coco Hotel, of the Jardines del Rey tourist area, Alen occupies the vice-presidency of the Administrative Committee of the Cuban Association of Bartenders (ACC) in Ciego de Avila province. Read More

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