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  • Puerto Rico teacher prison guard held for child porn

    A teacher and a prison guard were arrested in Puerto Rico in separate cases of child pornography, the US attorney in San Juan, Rosa Emilia Rodriguez, announced Tuesday. She said in a statement that educator Rigel Colon Cruzado was arrested Monday after investigators discovered that he had been having sexually-oriented conversations with a 12-year-old girl. Rodriguez said that the investigation ...

  • Cuba permits individuals to import mopeds

    Cuban customs authorities have authorized individuals to import electric appliances and mopeds in a resolution eliminating the prohibition on such imports that had been in force since 2005. Resolution 143 published Monday in the island's Official Gazette sets forth that Cuban citizens traveling abroad may import refrigerators, air conditioners of any type or model, microwave ovens, stoves and ...

  • 15 nations to attend intl ophthalmology congress in Cuba

    The 7th International Ophthalmology Congress,to be held here on June 29-31, will draw experts from 15 countries, the conference's organizers said Tuesday.Over 600 Cuban experts will attend the meeting to showcase the country's latest developments in ophthalmological research, carried out over the past few years in conjunction with "Mission Miracle," a joint Cuba-Venezuela ...

  • Olympic Games Medallists to Compete in Cuba

    Havana, May 22 (Prensa Latina) Italian fencers Valerio Aspromonte and Giorgio Avola are heading a group of Olympic medallists to participate in the World Cups for the foil and sword, said the organizers of the event here Tuesday. Aspromonte and Avola, Olympic Champions in the foil by teams in London in 2012, are heading a high quality group, including other outstanding athletes from the Olympic ...

  • Leisure and pleasure Caribbean way of life

    St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has cited the "leisure and pleasure" way of life as one of the "anti-social" trends developing in the Caribbean in the past ...

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The Number 23

The Number 23

The Number 23 is an overworked horror-thriller based on an absolutely ridiculous concept that, at various points in the movie, comes tantalizingly close to working. If you can get past the inherent silliness of being afraid of a number and go along with the arbitrary flow of findin ... ...

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  • Puma to sell gasoline-ethanol mix in Puerto Rico

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -; A Swiss oil company says it will start selling regular gasoline mixed with ethanol as part of a pilot program in Puerto ...

  • Cooperation in Education Between Cuba and Angola Deepened

    Luanda, May 21 (Prensa Latina) The perspectives to widen and diversify cooperation between Angola and Cuba in education are promising, especially in the technical-professional teaching level, said an Angolan official here Tuesday. Narciso Damasio dos Santos Benedito, Secretary of State for the Angolan Technical-Professional Formation and Teaching, received Cuban Ministers Council vice president ...

  • Organic Cooperative Proves that Agriculture Can Prosper in Cuba

    Continuous upgrading and a "vocation" for farming are two keys to the success of a cooperative that could serve as a model for boosting agriculture in ...

  • Caribbean Farming Gets Its Roots Wet

    - As Caribbean communities grapple with the entwined challenges of climate change and food security, modern technologies offer hope that the region’s stagnating agricultural sector can be made more ...

  • Dominican Republic’s Cardinal slams ruling for sex education

    Santo Domingo.- A visibly enraged Catholic cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez on Tuesday issued a scathing to response to National District judge Eunice Minaya's ruling for the family planning agency's (Pro Familia) sex education campaign, which he sarcastically hailed. "I first of all congratulate that most illustrious and wisest of judges for the ruling, secondly, I also ...

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