Cuba Rescues Areas Damaged by Desertification

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Martin Hacthoun. Pinar del Río, Cuba, May 6 (Prensa Latina) Cuban scientists are currently promoting a project for sustainable land management in the southern plain of the province, which suffers the consequences of desertification and drought.The project was launched at a time when Pinar del Rio is feeling the effects of the most severe dry season over the last decade, keeping the reservoirs at 31 percent of their capacity.At three sites in the plain works have already begun to rehabilitate soils, measures to be extended soon in the rest of the area damaged by the processes of degradation, the Program Coordinator, Carmen Rosa Montano, told Prensa Latina. Read More

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CPC delegation leaves for visit to Cuba, Venezuela

<p style="text-align: justify;">The delegation, headed by executive vice president of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee Li Jingtian, pays the visit at the invitation of the Communist Party of Cuba, the Venezuela government and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela. Read More

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Pernod Ricard: Good 3rd Quarter 2010/11 in Line with the 1st Half of the Financial Year

<p style="text-align: justify;">PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Press release - Paris, 5 May 2011. The Pernod Ricard (Paris:RI.pa - News) Board of Directors, meeting on 4 May 2011 and chaired by Patrick Ricard, reviewed the Group’s sales for the third quarter 2010/11 and confirmed its targets for the full 2010/11 and 2011/12 financial years.Over the first nine months of the 2010/11 financial year (1 July 2010 to 31 March 2011) consolidated sale. Read More

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Guidelines Outline New Market Opportunities for Cuba Travel

<p style="text-align: justify;">by Nick Verrastro. May 05, 2011. The U.S. travel industry has new opportunities to sell educational and religious travel to Cuba under guidelines issued by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control in late April. The new guidelines have “opened important windows for purposeful travel” to Cuba, said John McAuliff, executive director of the Fund for Reconciliation and Development, which works with ASTA in advocating freedom of travel to Cuba. “Virtually anyone who has a serious reason to visit Cuba should be able to find a legal way to do so.” Read More

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A Cuban man has rolled an 81m cigar for a world record

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Sun.May 05, 2011 11:47AM. Cuban four-time Guinness winner Jose Castelar rolls a cigar in Havana that he hopes will reach 70m, as he aims to break the current record of 45m.&nbsp; Source: AFP. A CUBAN man has rolled a cigar almost as long as a football field to set a new Guinness World Record.Rolling veteran Castelar Cairo, has been making cigars since he was five years-old, but he has created his largest masterpiece yet with a monster 81.8m stogie, The Sun reported Read More

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FAO Expresses its Concern in Cuba on World’s Rising Food Prices

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.04 - 21:57:59 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. FAO Expresses its Concern in Cuba on World’s Rising Food Prices. Havana, Cuba.- As said by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Cuba, food prices have climbed up 37% from December 2010, until March 2011.A FAO representative to Cuba, Marcio Porto, affirmed on Wednesday in the International Seminar on Plant and Livestock Health (SISA 2011) that food prices will continue rising during the year, even though the value of some products like sugar have fell down. Read More

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Large Gold Harvest for Cuba at Pan American Cycling Tournament

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, May 5 (acn) Cuban cyclists Lisandra Guerra, Yoanka González&nbsp; and Marlies Mejías climbed to the top of the podium, in the third and fourth days of the Pan American track and Road Cycling Championships underway in the Colombian city of Medellin. Read More

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Cuba and Mexico Get Together to Boost Tourism

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.05 - 14:14:47 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. FITCUBA 2011HAVANA, CUBA.- A multi-destination tourism project between Cuba and Mexico stands out in the 31st International Tourism Fair in Cuba (FITCUBA 2011), underway at the Morro-Cabaña Fortresses, in Havana. The Mexican Minister of Tourism, Gloria Guevara, said that Cuban and Mexico will boost international tourism between the two nations. Speaking of the Ten Routes in Mexico, Guevara mentioned possible areas for tourism taking into account the proximity between the two countries and their potential for tourism of sun and beach, and cruises. Read More

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Havana a hub to Europe for Nicaraguan startup carrier

<p style="text-align: justify;">Startup carrier Air Nicaragua plans to begin operations in July with three-times-a-week flights from Managua to Havana, Nicaraguan Tourism Minister Mario Salinas Pasos told Caribbean News Digital during the FITCuba tourism fair in Havana.The Managua-Havana route could serve as a bridge between Nicaragua and Europe, helping Nicaraguans and citizens of other U.S. non-visa waiver countries avoid immigration and customs hassles during transit in the United States, an airline official said at a tourism fair in Moscow in March. Read More

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Cuba to Host Fifth Conference on Integrated Management of Coastal Zones

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.05 - 12:13:33 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Coastal zones. SANTIAGO DE CUBA.-&nbsp; Professionals from about 20 countries will talk about sustainable development, environment,and integrated management of resources, during the Fifth Conference on Integrated Management of Coastal Zones (CARICOSTAS 2011) on May 11-13, in the Cuban eastern province of Santiago de Cuba.The director of the Center of Multidisciplinary Studies of Coastal Zones of the Oriente University, Ofelia Perez, told ACN that this is an opportunity to get an update on social studies in coastal communities and biodiversity. Read More

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