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HAVANA, Feb. 17th The Cuban government has begun a full-court press urging U.S. and American companies to step up economic investment in the island nation. In one of the first public comments in the U.S. by a top Cuban government official since President Obama normalized diplomatic relations with Cuba in late 2014, Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz, Cuban minister […]
HAVANA, Feb. 16th This will be a big week in the evolving U.S.-Cuba relationship with the signing of a new civil aviation agreement, a Cuban foreign trade minister visiting Washington and another round of U.S.-Cuba talks. It begins with the signing of an agreement in Havana that will allow regularly scheduled airline service between Cuba […]
HAVANA ,Feb.15th Catapulted into the news by the visit of the Russian Orthodox Church’s patriarch, Kirill, to Cuba, the faith’s cathedral in Havana breaks the colonial architectural monotony of the Old City, where it is recognized as one of the Caribbean island’s rare and exotic jewels. Standing on the shore of Havana Bay, the Byzantine-style […]
HAVANA, Feb. )AP) 15th The Obama administration has approved the first U.S. factory in Cuba in more than 50 years, allowing a two-man company from Alabama to build a plant assembling as many as 1,000 small tractors a year for sale to private farmers in Cuba. The Treasury Department last week notified partners Horace Clemmons […]
HAVANA, Feb. 14th The stature of the triathlon continues to grow with more athletes and nations competing in this year’s race. Nearly 410 athletes from 32 nations are competing in the Latin American Triathlon Championships in Havana, Cuba, according to to the vice presidents of the Cuban Sports Institute, Jorge Polo and Gladys Becquer. The […]
HAVANA, Feb. 14th (Reuters) The United States has recovered an inert Hellfire air-to-ground missile that had mistakenly ended up in Cuba, U.S. and Cuban officials said on Saturday. The laser-guided AGM 114 Hellfire mistakenly arrived in Cuba in June 2014 and was retrieved on Saturday by U.S. officials and representatives of Lockheed Martin Corp, the […]
HAVANA, Feb. 13th During a shoot for the Showtime comedy series “House of Lies” last month, Don Cheadle sat outside a cafe in Old Havana, puffing on a fat cigar and clinking glasses with three compadres. It was a novel scene — an American actor filming an American TV show on a Cuban street — […]
HAVANA, Feb. 13th (BY MIMI WHITEFIELD) U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will sign a civil aviation agreement in Havana on Tuesday, opening the door for U.S. airlines to begin offering scheduled service to and from Cuba for the first time since the early 1960s. The agreement, which was reached in December, allows a maximum of […]
HAVANA, Feb. 12th Pope Francis and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church meet in Havana on Friday, nearly 1,000 years after Eastern Orthodoxy split with Rome, for the first encounter in history between a Roman Catholic pope and a Russian Orthodox patriarch. The two religious leaders, guests of a Communist government, will address […]
HAVANA, Feb. 11th Cruise industry newcomer Haimark Line has canceled the first of a groundbreaking series of cruises it had planned between Miami and Cuba,Travel Weekly is reporting. The travel trade magazine says the 10-night voyage to Havana and six other Cuban ports, scheduled to kick off Feb. 29, will not take place as the company’s […]
HAVANA, Feb. 11th When the diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba started to ease in late 2014, Bacardi thought it was just a matter of time until it would reacquire full ownership of the Havana Club rum prized trademark. It was wrong. Last month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted the renewal of […]
HAVANA, Feb. 10th As domestic cruise lines still await final Cuban governmental approval to sail there, Cyprus-based Celestyal Cruises returns to Cuba for its third year, now carrying U.S. travelers on its new People-to-People Cruise & Land itinerary. Like MSC Cruises, Celestyal Cruises can operate in Cuba as an international company, and now it’s expanding […]
HAVANA, Feb. 9 (UPI) The lower cost of operating in the Cuban oil sector and improving Western diplomatic ties means good things for early movers, an Australian company said. Independent oil company MEO Australia said a number of the wells drilled near the coast of Cuba in so-called Block 9 have recovered oil. Information gleaned […]
HAVANA, Feb 9th (Thomson Reuters Foundation) L ong known for its cigars and rum, Cuba has added organic honey to its list of key agricultural exports, creating a buzz among farmers as pesticide use has been linked to declining bee populations elsewhere. Organic honey has become Cuba’s fourth most valuable agricultural export behind fish products, […]
HAVANA, Feb. 9th Sometime Thursday afternoon, Steve Attard expects his sailboat Viva Las Vegas will enter the territorial waters of the Republic of Cuba, completing the inaugural Miami to Havana Race. Attard and his crew likely never expected their busy racing schedule to include a foray to this, the largest island in the Caribbean, and […]
HAVANA, Feb. 8th (AP) Star Cuban infielder Yulieski Gourriel and his younger brother slipped away from their hotel in the Dominican Republic early Monday in an apparent effort to launch careers in Major League Baseball. The departure of Yulieski and his brother Loudes was confirmed with remarkable swiftness byGranma, the Communist Party newspaper in Cuba […]
HAVANA, Feb. 8th On February 11-22 the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill will visit Latin America, Christian Telegraph reports according to the Christian Megaportal invictory.com. The first item on the program will be a visit to Cuba, where the Patriarch will meet with Raul and Fidel Castro, the head of the Department for […]
HAVANA, Feb. 8th InterCaribbean Airways announced the launch of a new nonstop service to Havana’s Jose Martí International Airport (HAV), from Providenciales (PLS), Turks & Caicos Islands, commencing on May 3, 2016. With this new nonstop service to Havana from Providenciales, as well as connections from numerous cities in the Caribbean, interCaribbean makes the journey to […]
HAVANA, Feb. 8th Recently, New Orleans’ seven-member Preservation Hall Jazz Band, took its mission of preserving Louisiana jazz traditions, to Cuba. “It was my dream to get to Cuba before I leave this universe,” says 83-year-old saxophonist Charlie Gabriel. Gabriel, who started playing jazz when he was 11, first had the chance to go to Cuba […]
HAVANA,Feb. 5th A colonel in Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior led a Havana delegation that met with U.S. officials in Miami this week on ways to battle human trafficking and migration fraud during a session at office of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Cuba’s Foreign Ministry reported in a statement that the island delegation […]
HAVANA, Feb. 5th On a recent morning, Martin Staub was stopped by two policemen in the Cuban capital Havana. The German businessman was asked to pay a fine for riding a bike in the wrong direction on a one-way street. But when the police found out that Staub was riding an electric bike, they proposed […]
HAVANA, Feb.5 Around 350 athletes from 25 countries are confirmed for the 2nd Havana Triathlon, scheduled for February 13-14, the official daily Granma highlighted on Thursday. Alejandro Puerto, Cuba’s national commissioner for triathlon, said be Mexico, U.S., Britain, Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland and Venezuela will send athletes. Cuba’s hopes to see one of its own […]
HAVANA, Feb. 5th (REUTERS) Pope Francis will stop in Cuba on his way to Mexico next week to hold a historic meeting with Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Vatican said on Friday. The unprecedented meeting next Friday, the first in history between a pope and a Russian Orthodox Patriarch, could be a hugely […]
HAVANA, Feb 4 (PL) The director of the Provincial Center of Books and Literature (CPL in Spanish) of Matanzas, Daniel Cruz, said that the city arranges the final details to receive the International Book Fair. Daniel Cruz said to Prensa Latina that the 25th edition of the International Book Fair will be held at the […]
11th Esteban Salas Ancient Music Festival,HAVANA, Feb 4 (PL) Artists from Latin America, Europe and the United States will converge here during the 11th Esteban Salas Ancient Music Festival, to be held from February 12 to 21, stated today Teresa Paz, director of Ars Longa, host group of the event. According to Paz, oboist Alfredo […]
HAVANA, Feb 3 (PL) The Castillo del Morro (Morro Castle) Regatta started Wednesday at the shore of the Cuban coast of Havana, from the estuary of the Almendares River, up to the Bay of Havana, with the participation of several ships from the United States. Jose Miguel Diaz, Commodore of the International Ernest Hemingway Club […]
HAVANA, Feb 3 (PL) Havanas Trompoloco tent, one of the main circus headquarters in Cuba will become a cultural center from next Friday to converge the most diverse artistic expressions. According to the announcement made today by the popular Cuban actress Blanca Rosa Blanco, appointed director general and host of the emerging artistic project, the […]
HAVANA, Feb. 3th “We could have bought a real big boat for what we spent on this one,” says Mike Fernandez, seen on the flying bridge of the Pilar, the vessel he refurbished with his friend Andy Garcia. The name Ernest Hemingway prompts a wide range of reactions, with the legends surrounding the man almost […]
HAVANA, Feb. 3th (REUTERS) Cuba sought to drum up foreign investment on Tuesday as ministers on a state visit to Paris promised French business leaders that the Communist-run country is open for business. Cuba saw growth reach 4 percent last year as the centrally-planned economy gradually opens up and the country re-builds ties with the […]
HAVANA, Feb. 2th Interest in Cuba-bound ferries has been high enough at PortMiami that officials are looking for ways to create temporary terminals to accommodate operators wanting to launch overnight runs to Havana every day. Planning for a new passenger-and-cargo route to Cuba is detailed in hundreds of emails and internal documents obtained by the […]
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