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  • Cuba plans to build first biofuel power plant

    Cuba plans to build a $60 million power plant fueled by sugarcane residue, marking the island's first foray into electricity generation using biofuel. The plant will be built with Chinese technology and technical support, the official Prensa Latina news agency reported. Construction of the 20 MW power plant will begin at the end of this year at a sugar refinery in the western province of ...

  • Haiti reports first suspected H1N1 death in 2013

    Haiti reported on Monday its first suspected death this year from H1N1 virus, reports reaching here said.The victim was from the small community of Nan Bannann in the southern city of Belle-Ansecity, 110 km southwest of the capital Port-au-Prince, the reports said.As local government said, the victim died at a hospital in Thiotte, 65 km east of the capital.Reports said the victim appeared to ...

  • Special Committee on Decolonization Approves Text Calling upon United States to Initiate Self-determination Process for Puerto Rico

    Meeting to consider the question of Puerto Rico, the Special Committee on Decolonization called again upon the United States today to expedite a process that would allow Puerto Ricans to fully exercise their inalienable right to self-determination and ...

  • US names dangerous Cuba prisoners

    Pentagon , Army Lieutanant Colonel Todd Breasseale.The names of all Guantanamo prisoners have been public for years, but the administration of ...

  • Whelan Barbados is on FA Cup travel itinerary

    Emmerson Boyce and Gary Caldwell lift the FA Cup after their stunning triumph Whelan, who owns a villa on the island of Barbados, is due to leave in his summer holidays once he unveils former Bolton manager Owen Coyle as the replacement to Roberto Martinez.But before he jets off, the 76-year-old has renewed his promise to parade the historic trophy for all of Barbados."Since we won the FA ...

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The Bourne Legacy

The Bourne Legacy is not so much a reboot of the genre-redefining series of espionage thrillers as it is an offshoot, a breakneck turn into a parallel universe that overlaps just enough with the last film narratively, thematically, and aesthetically to make them feel as if ... ...

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  • Storm clouds loom over Jamaica Pond

    "It was mostly sunny with some innocent clouds in Jamaica Plain and then suddenly these dramatic dark storm clouds moved in over Jamaica Pond. They looked like something from the movie "Independence Day" when the alien space ships enter Earth's atmosphere. The rain that followed was pretty intense ...

  • Dominican merchants close key border market in protest over Haiti ban of poultry egg imports

    SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Merchants in the Dominican Republic have shuttered a large border market in protest over neighboring Haiti's ban on poultry and egg imports. The Dajabon market was closed Monday seeking to pressure Haiti to drop the ban. A Dominican board says the country sells about 25 million eggs and 8 million chickens to Haiti every month. Early in June, Haiti said ...

  • Intl. Seminar on Journalism and Tourism Starts in Cuba

    Havana, June 17 (Prensa Latina) An International Seminar on Journalism and Tourism started today in this capital with a study of routes and cultural proposals in Havana and the potentials of the tourism industry in Cuba. At least 48 communications professionals from Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Cuba have gathered for a week for this ninth seminar at the Jose ...

  • Haiti ban shows Hispaniola commission’s lack of clout on trade rows

    Santo Domingo.- The row unleashed by Haiti's ban on Dominican eggs and poultry has shed light on the Joint Dominican-Haitian Bilateral Commission's lack of clout in the current disputes among the two Hispaniola island nations, despite being "two wings of the same bird." The row also shows both countries' weakness toward dialogue and the bungled handling of their ...

  • Four-hour meeting fails to lift Haiti ban on Dominican products

    Santo Domingo -After meeting for more than four hours, the Haitian and Dominican authorities failed to reach an agreement to lift the ban on poultry and eggs imports. FILE. Haiti Foreign minister Pierre Richard Casimir and Dominican counterpart Carlos Morales are in a closed-door talks since 12: 20pm, looking to lift the ban of Dominican egg and chicken exports to the neighboring country. To ...

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