Cuba designs training course for private workers

<p style="text-align: justify;">English.news.cn. HAVANA, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Cuba is designing a training course to teach private workers "economic management" to better educate the workers for their jobs. The course, designed by the National Association of Economists (ANEC), aims to teach an increasing number of private workers to "expand their knowledge in basic accounting, expenses, costs and taxes," ANEC Vice President Maria Victoria Berrace said Thursday. Read More

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Cuba: Fidel Castro, Raul Castro and Hugo Chavez Meet

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Redaction AHORA / Friday, 23 September 2011 09:02. The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, and President Raul Castro held talks for nearly five hours with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who already returned to his country, national media reported Friday. Before leaving for Venezuela Thursday night, Raul Castro accompanied Chavez to the Jose Marti International Airport. Read More

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Marsalis says he and Clapton share blues roots

<p style="text-align: justify;">Friday, Sept. 23, 2011 7:30 a.m. MDT. By Nekesa Mumbi Moody, Associated Press. NEW YORK — Although Wynton Marsalis comes from the worlds of jazz and classical music, and Eric Clapton is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Marsalis says their recent collaboration wasn't that unusual because they both have something that unifies them— their love of the blues. "Eric Clapton, he's from England, but he's a part of the blues tradition because that's what he studied, and that's what he wanted to learn. Read More

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Cuba Warns Against Increasing Corruption in Civil Service

<p style="text-align: justify;">Thursday, 22 September 2011. HAVANA: Cuba’s official press has blasted the “corrupt and corruptors” more specifically “those scoundrels dressed in civil servant responsibilities” as they put at risk the island’s long struggle to make Socialism successful. “Juventud Rebelde” daily revealed lately it has emerged in the limelight trials of people “embedded in their cysts of power” who have become personally rich “with resources that belong to the Cuban people and are so dear for a poor country oppressed by the implacable imperial lash”. Read More

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Cuban Chess GM Leinier Dominguez to Attend Spice Cup in the United States

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.22 - 13:37:51 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu.HAVANA, Cuba.- After his excellent performance at the recently concluded World Cup of Chess in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia —where he and compatriot Lazaro Bruzon advanced to the Round of 16—, Cuban Grand Master (GM) Leinier Dominguez will participate in the Fifth annual SPICE Cup, the highest rated international invitational tournament in the United States, scheduled for October 15-25 in Lubbock, Texas. Read More

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Cuba Announces Team for Baseball World Championships

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.09.22 - 14:30:06 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu.HAVANA, Cuba.-&nbsp; The Cuban national baseball commission announced the 24-man team that will participate in the upcoming world championship to run from October 2 through the 15th in Panama City. The team is made up of 10 pitchers, three catchers, six infielders and five outfielders, with Alfonso Urquiola as the manager and José Hernández and José Roberto Medina as coaches. Read More

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Cuban Hurdler Leads Athletics Team to Pan-American Games

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Osmany González Tocabens. Havana, Sep 22 (Prensa Latina) Hurdler Dayron Robles, current world record breaker, will lead the national track and field team to participate at the 2011 Pan-American Games of Guadalajara, Mexico, the National News Agency reported Thursday. Robles, 24, and also winner of the 2011 Diamond League, will run in the city of Jalisco while seeking to defend his regional title, which he won four years ago in Rio de Janeiro. Read More

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Cuba Boosts Cultural and Patrimonial Tourism in Russia

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Jennifer Socorro Ramon. Moscow, Sep 22 (Prensa Latina) In order to diversify its tourist offer, Cuban Habaguanex company is showcasing new cultural and patrimonial recreational options at the 17th International Trade Fair for travel and Tourism, Otdykh Leisure Moscow 2011, organized by Euroexpo in Moscow. The president of the travel agency San Cristobal, Luis Enrique Sotolongo told Prensa Latina that hotels ran by Habaguanex company, located in the historical center of Havana are being presented; including Saratoga, San Felipe and Santa Isabel 5 stars hotels. Read More

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Let Cuba Live film forum

<p style="text-align: justify;">Sep 22, 2011. Saul Landau's latest film, "Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up?", will be screened Thursday, Sept. 29 at Rockland's Lincoln Street Center for Arts and Education. Rockland — Let Cuba Live will screen "Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up?" Thursday, Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. at Lincoln Street Center for Arts and Education, 24 Lincoln St., followed by discussion. Read More

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Tampa Council to send letter to Cuba marking resumption of Tampa-Havana flights

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Richard Danielson, Times Staff Writer. Sep 22, 2011. By Richard Danielson, Times Staff Writer. TAMPA — On its third try, the City Council Thursday voted to send a letter of greetings to the government of Cuba marking the "historic" resumption of direct commercial flights between Tampa and Havana. The vote came at the request of Council Vice Chairwoman Mary Mulhern, who this month traveled to Havana after the flights began again for the first time since 1962. Read More

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