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CUBA-DEVELOPMENT: Making Communities More Livable
The U.N. Development Programme (UNDP), with support from Italy, is sponsoring a programme to improve living standards in Cuba through capacity building and participatory solutions to social problems.CRIME-CUBA: Wave of Violence Accompanies Economic Crisis
Rumours, police actions and official statements have spread alarm among residents of Cuba's capital, caught in an unprecedented wave of violence.ECONOMY-CUBA: Cambios Doing Brisk Business
In Cuba, most people's salaries are paid in the local currency, the peso, yet foreign exchange bureaux opened by the government in 1995 have been doing brisk business.POLITICS-CUBA: Espionage, New Obstacle to Rapprochement with US
The alleged Cuban espionage ring uncovered in the United States could run the stuttering reconciliation progress onto the hard shoulder./CORRRECTED REPEAT/ FOOD: Cuba May Reject WFP Emergency Aid if US Share is Identified
The Cuban government announced Thursday that it would reject World Food Programme (WFP) aid for drought victims if the US contribution to the overall amount was identified.FOOD: Cuba to Reject WFP Emergency Aid if US Share is Identified
The Cuban government announced Thursday that it would reject World Food Programme (WFP) aid for drought victims if the US contribution to the overall amount was identified.EDUCATION-CUBA: Retaining Priority Despite Economic Crisis
Some 2.4 million people were back at school at some level in Cuba Tuesday, showing the nation's free and universal education policy standing up to the economic crisis wracking the nation for the last eight years.COMMUNICATION-CUBA: Talk Less or Pay More
Cubans are accustomed to living glued to their telephone receivers, but they may have to curb their passion for telecommunications when new phone rates come into effect in September.POLITICS-CUBA: Castro Calls for Alliance Against United States
Cuba's President Fidel Castro ended his visit to the Dominican Republic with a call for the Caribbean, Central America and South America to join forces against the United States./REPEAT//HEALTH-CUBA: Meningitis Vaccine Breaks into Global Market
Cuba has broken into the highly concentrated global pharmaceutical market with 40 million doses of meningitis vaccine sold to 12 countries so far.POLITICS-CUBA: Castro Turns 72 Amidst Talk of Assassination Plot
Cuban President Fidel Castro turns 72 Thursday amidst talk of yet another assassination plot.POPULATION: Cuba Looks for Ways to Lighten Social Security Load
The combined effect of a prolonged economic crisis and an ageing population has turned Cuba's social security system into a time bomb and the authorities are looking around for the right measures to deactivate it.CUBA: Forest Protection Law, A National First
Cuba's Parliament broke new ground this week, passing its first ever forestry law to conserve and increase the amount of tree cover on the island, guaranteeing more rational use of these resources.ENVIRONMENT-CUBA: Forest Protection Law a National First
Cuba's Parliament broke new ground this week, passing its first ever forestry law to conserve and increase the amount of tree cover on the island, guaranteeing more rational use of these resources.RIGHTS-CUBA: Opponents Complete Year in Prison Without Charges
Four members of the opposition Internal Dissidence Working Group notched up a year in prison Thursday having received neither a court summons, nor notification of the charges against them.CUBA-US: Direct Passenger Flights Renewed
Cubans planning to fly between Miami and Havana can look forward, as of Wednesday, to a 45-minute commute, rather than what had turned into a 12-hour ordeal.POLITICS: Cuban Exile Community Gearing Up for ‘Hot’ Summer
The right-wing Cuban exile community in the United States seems to be gearing up for a hot summer of protests and actions against the government of Fidel Castro.POPULATION-CUBA: Contraceptive Factory a Weight off Women’s Minds
Cuban women's concerns over family planning could be considerably lightened if plans go ahead for a factory producing 500 million contraceptive pills per year.POPULATION-CUBA: Slight Rise in Fertility No ‘Trend’, Say Experts
Although 12,000 more babies were born in Cuba in 1997 than in 1996, the increase does not indicate an abrupt shift in the reproductive patterns of this Caribbean nation, where fertility has not even reached replacement levels in the past 20 years.RIGHTS: More Than 400 Political Prisoners Held in Cuba
The number of political prisoners in Cuba has fallen dramatically in the last two years, but around 400 opponents are still being held, said the outlawed Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CDHRC) Tuesday.POLITICS-CUBA: Anti-Castro Propaganda Blitz Misses Target
A surprise propaganda operation launched by the U.S.-based anti-Castro Democracy Movement missed its target in Cuba Monday - in more ways than one.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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