Experts from the Santiago de Cuba-based National Center of Seismological Research (Cenais is the Spanish acronym) are developing a forecast on the vulnerability of high-rises in that city, as well as in Guantánamo and Holguín. Doctor Fernando Guasch explained that such studies include 13 buildings of that kind in this city, which features the highest risk level in terms of earthquakes in Cuba, and properties in the other two territories, with the possibility of reaching Camagüey.

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He is recalled with his light eyes and white hair, neat clothes, white guayabera and refined manners. “Fabulous” was his favorite word and he loved calling people comrade. José Antonio Portuondo Valdorknew how to turn conversations into a fruitful way of saying. Helping other people was the highest goal he ever set in his life. He always fulfilled by means of the most exemplary behavior: humbleness.

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Travel and tourism industry veteran Horace Hord will receive the 2014 Caribbean Media Exchange Leadership Award next month in Miami. Hord will receive the honor from CMEx at an awards presentation during the second annual “Evenings of Excellence” series, sponsored by Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Tuesday, Oct. 21.

Tourists from around the world are drawn to a stretch of palm-fringed shoreline known as "Seven Mile Beach," a crescent of white sand along the turquoise waters of Jamaica's western coast. But the sands are slipping away and Jamaicans fear the beach, someday, will need a new nickname.

The ceremony of this Wednesday October 1 was an opportunity for those responsible of the project, Agnès Pierre-Louis and Louise John, to thank the sponsors and various partners in Haiti and Antigua without whom the study program, under the sponsorship of CHTEAF-Haiti Fund, would not have succeeded.