Havana, September 4 (RHC)-- The World Bank published a revealing report on the literacy problems in Latin America and the Caribbean. Entitled “Great Teachers: How to Raise Student Learning in Latin America and the Caribbean,” the study analyzes the public educational systems of countries in the region and the main challenges they face.... More


Luanda, September 4 (RHC) -- Angola has reiterated the necessity to end the over 50-year-old U.S. economic, trade and financial blockade on Cuba.... More


Hanoi, September 4 (PL-RHC) -- Cuban Foreign Trade and Investment Minister Rodrigo Malmierca displayed in Hanoi the legal, economic and working conditions and advantages for investors in his country in an environment of safe security.... More


Matanzas, September 4 (RHC) -- Cuba will host the 7th International Scientific Conference on Sustainable Development and Innovation (CIUM-2015), to be held at the Plaza America Conference Center in Varadero, from April 6th through the 10th, 2015, the organizing committee announced today.... More


Havana, September 4 (RHC) -- Cuban authorities are working to achieve three major objectives, as part of a program to eliminate greenhouse substances that negatively affect the ozone layer, according to an expert here in Havana.... More


Havana, September 3 (RHC) -– Father Michael Lapsley, Vice President of the Council of Churches of South Africa, says that the cause of the Cuban Five is his own. Speaking Tuesday at the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples, ICAP, Father Lapsley said that the three Cubans who are still arbitrarily incarcerated in the United States are not criminals but heroes “and their release from prison is our cause.”... More


Remedios, September 3 (RHC) -– Holiday Check Quality Selection, the largest European web site on the Internet with opinions on tourist facilities, assessed the Mascotte Hotel, located in Remedios in the province of Villa Clara, as one of the best of the world in 2014. ... More


Havana, September 3 (RHC) -– The signs of environmental worsening indicate the need to change the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption in current societies, said Cuban Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment, Elba Rosa Perez. She spoke during the Third Conference on Small Island Developing States, which wraps up tomorrow, Thursday, in Samoa.... More


Luanda, September 3 (RHC) -– Strategies to strengthen cooperation between Angola and Cuba were the focus of discussions carried out today by Angolan Vice President Manuel Vicente and Cuban ambassador to Angola Gisela García.... More


Miami, September 2 (RHC) -– The Miami-based Alianza Martiana Coalition has announced that a car caravan will take place on September 6th to demand the release of the three anti-terrorist Cubans still imprisoned in the United States.... More


Geneva, September 2 (RHC) -– Cuba has condemned in Geneva the terrorist acts against the Iraqi population and alerted that the crisis in that country is closely related to the 2003 illegal aggression of that country by the United States and its allies.... More


Havana, September 2 (RHC) -– French activist Jacqueline Roussie has urged U.S. President Barack Obama to free three Cuban anti-terrorist fighters held in U.S. jails since 1998.... More


Luanda, September 2 (RHC) -- The Angola-Cuba Friendship Association (ASAC) condemned Tuesday U.S. government's plans to promote subversion and destabilize Cuba's revolutionary process.... More


Havana, September 2 (RHC) -– The number of Cuban vacationers who stayed at Varadero, Cuba's major tourist resort, was calculated at 112,000 during the first half of the year, representing 21 percent growth if compared to a similar period last year, according to the Tourism Ministry.... More


Havana, September 2 (RHC) -- Cuban health care community workers are following a new educational and prevention program to reduce pregnancy in teenagers as rates have increased in Santiago de Cuba province in the last few months.... More


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