More Cuban Sugar Mills to Operate in Coming Harvest

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Ana Julia Suarez Cruz. 12:26Havana, Aug 6 (Prensa Latina) Seven more sugar mills will operate during the next sugar cane harvest, for a total of 46, Granma newspaper reported on Saturday.&nbsp; According to engineer Osiris Quintero, chief of the Control and Analysis Office of the Ministry of the Sugar Industry, more mills will be operating because of a slight improvement in yields per hectare and the quantity of sugar cane expected to be milled.According to a ministry timetable, 24 of the 46 sugar mills will begin operating in December, and the rest in mid-January of 2012. Read More

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Cuban and Palestinian Foreign Ministers Meet in Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 6 (acn) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez and his counterpart of the Palestinian National Authority, Riad Malki, now on a visit to the island, held a work meeting on Friday at the Cuban Foreign Ministry.According to a note published on Saturday by the Granma newspaper, Rodriguez reiterated the unrestricted support of the Caribbean country for the fraternal Palestinian people, in its historic struggle for the inalienable right to self-determination and to achieve sovereignty as an independent State. Read More

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