HAVANA, April 18th Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua said on Tuesday that an affiliate of Chinese oil major CNPC, Great Wall Drilling, was drilling for oil off Cuba’s coast as part of a joint venture with state-owned oil firm Cuba Petroleum Company (CUPET).
HAVANA, April 18th (Travelpulse) In a move that’s being described by some in the travel industry as catering to southern Florida’s hard-liners in advance of the 2020 presidential elections, the Trump administration has announced harsh new Cuba sanctions and travel policy changes.
HAVANA, April 17th The EU and Canada issued a joint warning against the United States on Wednesday after Washington said it would allow US lawsuits against foreign investments in Cuba.
HAVANA, April 16th (Reuters) – The European Union has warned Washington that any move to allow U.S. citizens to sue foreign firms doing business in Cuba could lead to a World Trade Organization challenge and a cycle of counter-claims in European courts.
HAVANA, April 16th Police have told a court that intelligence reports have implicated a driver of two abducted Cuban doctors in their kidnap at the border town of Mandera.
HAVANA, April 12 (Xinhua) — Cuba will maintain contact with Kenyan authorities in search for the two Cuban doctors who were kidnapped earlier in northeast Kenya by suspected al-Shabab militants, the Cuban government said Friday.
HAVANA, April 13th (Reuters) – From breeding miniature cows to importing water buffalo, Cuban leaders have long gotten creative in their effort to remedy food shortages. Now, they are proposing ostrich and rodent farms as an answer, prompting ridicule from a weary population.
HAVANA, Apr 13th (PL) Cuba is improving the state entrepreneurial system due to its key role in economic development, and it is making the rules that govern the private sector more flexible, Marino Murillo, president of the Commission for the Implementation of Guidelines, told the People”s Power National Assembly (Parliament) on Saturday.
HAVANA, April 13th – More than foreign 300 artists, including Americans, will participate in Havana’s 13th Biennial, the internationally recognized month-long art festival that kick’s off April 12. “Havana’s Bienal is unique,” said Wilfredo Lam Center Assistant Director Margarita Gonzalez Lorente. “It’s an event that promotes international dialogue,” said Bienal Executive Director Jorge Alfonso Garcia. At […]
HAVANA, April 12th After the trompe-l’oeil of the Louvre pyramid, the artist JR installed a picture of a boy on a Cuban wall, on the occasion of the Havana Biennial.
HAVANA, April 12th Venezuela’s state-run PDVSA has shipped one million barrels of oil to Cuba days after the United States imposed fresh sanctions on vessels and firms involved in exports to the island in an effort to halt oil trade between the political allies, according to a PDVSA document and tanker tracking data.
HAVANA, April 11th Chaperoned by a Cuban scientist, we set off on trails of nickel-gold earth, through silent groves of succulents and cupet bushes, under pines and ferns, and across sun-dappled pastures aromatic with rain-soaked willowy grass and rushing streams.
HAVANA. April 10th (Reuters) – Cuban Communist Party leader Raul Castro denounced on Wednesday what he called the United States’ renewed attempts to destroy Cuba’s leftist revolution and pressure its ally Venezuela, as the national assembly met to enact the new constitution.
HAVANA, Apr 10th (PL) The international exhibition of printing, packaging and graphic arts, Pacgraf 2019, opens on Tuesday at PABEXPO fairground in Havana to highlight the attention to the issues of local industry.
HAVANA, April 9 (Raimundo Urrechaga) Havana’s Chinatown is being restored to its former glory as restoration work on the district in downtown Havana began several weeks ago.
HAVANA, April 10th In the floral valleys of Cuba’s Matanzas province, old fashioned farming means bees can swarm without the threat of pesticides that have decimated populations across the world.
HAVANA, April 9th (REUTERS) Venezuela will “fulfill its commitments” to Cuba despite United States sanctions targeting oil shipments from the South American country to its ideological ally, Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said on Monday.
HAVANA, April 8th (WP) The Trump administration canceled a four-month-old deal between Major League Baseball and the Cuban Baseball Federation Monday, saying that the federation was part of the Cuban government and trade with it was illegal under current law.
HAVANA , april 7th (AP) This Sunday morning a group of animal-lovers will march a mile down one of Havana’s main thoroughfares waving placards calling for an end to animal cruelty in Cuba.
HAVANA, april 7th (AFP) “Dress all in white, the atmosphere, the champagne, the glitter, I love!”: Like Kay Barns, coming from Florida, hundreds of Americans participated Saturday night in Cuba’s first white dinner, a giant chic picnic good kind of French inspiration.
HAVANA, April 6th (PL) The International Meeting of Academies for the teaching of ballet is a unique event of its kind in the world and the 25th edition will take place in this capital, at the Fernando Alonso National Ballet School.
HAVANA, april 5th (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Friday stepped up efforts to force Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from office by imposing new sanctions on its oil shipments, and promising “stronger action” against Cuba for helping to keep the regime afloat.
HAVANA, April 4th (Reuters) – Cuba says a paper shortage is forcing it to cut back on pages and circulation at several state-run newspapers including the Communist Party daily Granma, highlighting the severity of the country’s cash crunch as scarcity of basic goods increases.
HAVANA, April 4th Virgin Voyages has released new details on its planned cruises to Cuba. The cruise line’s president and CEO, Tom McAlpin, and Diana Block-Garcia, vice president of destination, itinerary and revenue, as well as La Habana Cruise Port
HAVANA, april 3th (Reuters) – Cuba’s Baseball Federation announced on Tuesday a first list of players authorized to sign contracts directly with Major League Baseball organizations, moving Cuban-U.S. cooperation in the sport forward despite tense broader bilateral relations.
HAVANA,April 2th Business leaders are warning that the Trump administration’s threat to tighten the U.S. embargo on Cuba could side-swipe Canadian companies that are doing business on the Caribbean island.
HAVANA, April 1th New reports show that there was a 33 percent decline in overnight visitors from the US from 2017 to 2018, and in a recent annual survey by leading travel insurance and assistance company, Allianz Global Assistance,
HAVANA, Mar 31 (P L) Graphic humorists from 43 countries are competing in Cuba from March 31 to April 3 in the framework of the 21st International Graphic Humor Biennial in San Antonio de los Baños, southwest of Havana.
HAVANA, Mar 1 (PL) The Cuban tobacco industry produces 260 million hand-rolled cigars a year with a strong impact on the international market, official sources reported here.
HAVANA,March 31th A restoration centre to preserve the work of Ernest Hemingway has opened in Cuba, highlighting an area of cooperation with the US even as bilateral relations between the old cold war foes have chilled again.