Havana Times, Cuba’s New Online Publication 

HAVANA, Oct 15.— Cuba has a new online English language publication as of Wednesday accessible at www.havanatimes.org .

Under the motto “open-minded writing from Cuba”, Havana Times will seek to avoid the black and white stereotyped reporting from and about the island.   

Several Cubans will be giving you their thoughts and personal accounts of life on the island in the section titled “Diaries from Havana.” This is not the typical writing you see coming out of the island in English. The initial contributors to this section are Maite Vera, Leonid Lopez, Mavis Alvarez, Veronica Fernandez and Rainer Rubira. 

Photos will bring you the creative photography of Caridad, a young Havana photographer, as well as the work of other professional and amateur photographers. 

The Features section will include reports from the Havana office of Inter Press Service (IPS) who do a balanced job at presenting current issues. Updates will be short news briefs that keep you informed on current events. 

Opinion will start out with commentaries by HT editor Circles Robinson, www.circlesonline.blogspot.com and expand to other writers as well as time goes on. 

By the time it gets in full swing the What’s On section will present a comprehensive section on cultural activity in the Cuban capital with an accent on those things that might be of interest to non-Spanish speaking visitors. 

Havana Times is holding an initial photo contest http://www.havanatimes.org/?page_id=752 that is open to anyone who has traveled to Cuba and would like to share some of their work. Prizes will be awarded to first and second place.