Entries by Havana Live

U.S. might take more steps to relax Cuba embargo

HAVANA, Nov 4  (REUTERS) U.S. President Barack Obama could further relax the U.S. trade embargo of Cuba, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday, adding that Washington would not first demand human rights progress from Havana. Obama has twice used executive authority to ease the embargo as part of his opening to Cuba, and […]

At Havana trade fair, Spain and Cuba refinance debt

HAVANA, Nov. 3th (EFE) Spain and Cuba on Monday took new steps toward bolstering bilateral economic relations, reaching agreement on a deal to refinance the island’s short-term debt and signing several accords during the visits of Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos and Industry Minister José Manuel Soria. De Guindos and Soria inaugurated the Spanish pavilion […]

News from the ANIPLANT Project Havana

HAVANA, Nov. 3th  There have been many promising changes recently with the renewed Cuba – USA relationship: from the Obama and Castro handshake at Mandela’s funeral in December 2013, to their simultaneous broadcasts in December 2014 declaring the beginning of discussions, to the re-opening of the respective embassies this summer. A lot has changed! However, […]

US-CUBA Business Council in Session in Havana

Havana, Nov 3 (PL) The US-Cuba Business Council concluded it first session  yesterday, with the participation of more than 50 executives officers US companies and representatives of companies and organization from Cuba. Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment (MINCEX) Rodrigo Malmierca welcomed the visitors and reiterated his country’s interest in in making progress in […]

Sprint First U.S. Carrier to Sign Direct Cuba Roaming Agreement

HAVANA,Nov 02, 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE)  Sprint S, +2.85% today became the first U.S. wireless carrier to sign a direct roaming agreement with Telecommunications Company of Cuba (ETECSA). “As the commercial relationship between the U.S. and Cuba continues to progress, it is expected that the number of travelers to Cuba will increase exponentially,” said Sprint CEO […]

First flights from Fort Myers to Havana scheduled today

HAVANA, Nov. 2th For the first time ever, Southwest Florida International Airport now offers direct flights to Havana from Fort Myers. The inaugural flight will take off at 2:15pm Monday afternoon.  Prices are starting at $339 according to the website for travel agency Por Cuba Viajo Express . Flights are planned on Mondays and Fridays […]

Fla. business owners attend expo in Havana and “dream”

HAVANA, Nov.1th  A small group of Florida business owners boarded a plane for Cuba on Saturday afternoon.  They are headed to an international business expo in Havana. The event gives American entrepreneurs a chance to network and connect with Cuban business people.”Primarily my interest is education I understand it’s very important to the Cuban people […]

There Is a Bar at Ernest Hemingway’s Home in Havana

HAVANA, Oct.31th  (By Alexander Britell) There should be a bar here.Here at Finca Vigia, the hillside farm where Ernest Hemingway spent three decades of his life, nothing has changed. Hemingway’s house became a museum just about a month after he left the country in 1961, and even the bottles of his bar remain on his living […]

Cuba and DR to develop joint multi-destination tourism project

HAVANA, Oct. 31th  (eTurboNews) Dominican Republic´s Tourism minister Francisco Javier said in the capital Santo Domingo that his country will jointly develop with Cuba a multi-destination project to bring a larger number of Chinese tourists. The official made the announcement during the first China-Dominican Republic Cooperation Forum, underway in Punta Cana, a tourist center in the […]

Pensacola to Havana race starts today

HAVANA, Oct. 31th (By Susan Langenhenning)  A fleet of sleek racing sailboats and cruisers will line up in the waters just off Pensacola, Fla., early this Halloween morning, to launch the rebirth of a Gulf Coast tradition long stifled by international politics and diplomatic relations. Twenty-two boats are participating in the first Pensacola to Cuba […]

Insider Guide: What to do in Havana

HAVANA, Oct. 30th (CNN)  Exotic, mysterious, vibrant, Havana is steeped in time-worn splendor. But with President Barack Obama announcing a historic overhaul in relations between the United States and Cuba, the largest island in the Caribbean and its capital of Havana stand on the precipice of dramatic change. Home to two million, Cuba’s beguiling capital […]

Historic race to Havana sets sail Saturday

HAVANA, Oct. 30th   After 54 years of diplomacy stalemate between the U.S. and Cuba, the channels of communication began opening earlier this year. With the Pensacola Yacht Club’s board of directors’ approval in April and title funding through a donation to the PYC Satori Foundation, which supports sailing and educational activities, a committee of […]

Cuba’s trains offer fine-grained look at country

HAVANA, Oct. 30th (AP)  From east to the west, trains offer a fine-grained, slow-moving view of Cuba that few foreigners ever see. Goats graze alongside tracks in the countryside, forcing trains to brake to avoid hitting them. Old American sedans line up at a crossing while locomotives pass. Horse-drawn carts cross the rails after a […]

Cuba, an abundance of love but a lack of babies

HAVANA, Oct. 30th (NY Times)  A magnetic energy courses between Claudia Rodriguez and Alejandro Padilla, binding the couple in clichés of intimacy: the tendency to finish each other’s sentences; hands that naturally gravitate toward one another; a shared laughter that forms the soundtrack of their romance. What their love will not bear, for the moment, […]

Italian prime minister urges nation’s businesses to invest in Cuba

HAVANA, 0ct. 29th (EFE)  Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi urged his country’s business owners and executives to invest in Cuba and ratified his government’s “renewed” commitment to building “strong” trade and cultural relations with the Caribbean island. “The Italian government maintains and will maintain this commitment with renewed confidence,” Renzi said in Havana at the […]

Insel Air increases filghts to Havana

HAVANA, Oct. 29th  (PL) Insel Air International B.V, an airline based in Curacao, will increase its operations in Cuba since November 4. This was confirmed in an exclusive interview to Prensa Latina by the sales manager of that company, Lisandro Cecilia, who explained that since last July, two direct Curacao-Havana weekly flights (on Mondays and […]

The princess of Monaco Carolina is visiting Havana

HAVANA, Oct 29th  Princess of Monaco, Grimaldi Carolina, is in Havana to mark the debut on the island on Friday the Monte Carlo Ballet, who will present his version of Cinderella part, reports EFE. The director of the company in the Principality of Monaco, the French choreographer and exbailarín Jean-Christophe Maillot said that “being in […]

First ever UAE Cuba investment forum opens in Dubai

HAVANA 24th October The first ever bilateral UAE-Cuba Investment Forum was attended by over 50 delegates highlighting the opportunities for investment in the Cuban economy. It was the culmination of a week-long programme for a group of senior Cuban Government officials and businessmen led by HE Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Trade and […]

Havana seeks investment partners in medical equipment sector

HAVANA, Oct. 24  Cuba is seeking to encourage foreign investment and joint ventures in the manufacture of medical equipment, Lazaro Diaz, director of state-owned Industria Cubana de Equipos Medicos, or Icem, told reporters. Companies from a number of countries, including Italy and Russia, are starting to see the potential for this business in the Caribbean […]

Pawa Dominicana Announces Flights to Havana

HAVANA, Oct 24 (PL)  Pawa Dominicana (Pan Am World Airways Dominicana) announced today that it will begin soon direct flights to Havana, Cuba, and to the island of Antigua, with a stopover in Saint Marteen. The aviation company has made own efforts with Cuban and Antigua authorities, and hopes to start those operations in the […]

Cuba 2030, le nouvel eldorado du business

LA HAVANE, 23 Oct.  Et si, dopée par le retour du yankee dollar, la capitale cubaine profitait de sa lune de miel avec les Etats-Unis pour redevenir l’une des plus belles villes du monde ? Nous avons imaginé son nouveau visage dans quinze ans. Hôtels se défiant en verticalité, plages de rêve et boîtes de […]

Cuba-South Africa Business Forum Running in Havana

HAVANA, Oct 22 (PL) Cuban business people devoted to telecommunications, health care, tourism, mining and other industries are meet yesterday with their Cuban counterparts to identify business opportunities. According to the Cuban Chamber of Commerce, the visitors are part of the entourage of South African Vice President, Cyril Ramaphosa, who is on a state visit […]

DIY drone video captures unseen views of Havana

Havana, Oct. 22 (CNN) The tourists snapping photos of shiny classic American cars driving down Havana’s seafront boulevard were oblivious to the much rarer site flying just over their heads: a drone. The Cubans who took notice though, not used to seeing such aircraft, waved and took out their cell phones to snap pictures as […]

Cuba eager to do business with US oil companies again

HAVANA, 21 Oct. (AFP)  Cuba is eager to do business again with American oil companies, an official says, expressing hope that Havana’s opening with Washington will clear the way for their return after 55 years. “Let them come. We’re waiting for them. We have all kinds of business for them,” Maria Yodalis Hernandez, spokeswoman for […]

Planning new passenger ferry services from Miami to Havana

Rebecca Gibson from Cruise&Ferry spoke to Oscar Ruano Baqueiro, director general of Baja Ferries, to find out more about the line’s planned passenger ferry services between the US and Cuba as it waits to secure Cuban government approval HAVANA,Oct.21 Why did Baja Ferries decide to apply to operate a ferry service between the US and […]

Italy and ICAIC Forge Closer Film Industry Ties

HAVANA, Oct. 22  Italy and Cuba are forging closer film industry ties through various initiatives and overtures that reflect the global entertainment industry’s growing interest in the Caribbean country following its detente with the U.S. A Cuban delegation made the trek to Rome’s new MIA film and TV content mart for a Cuba country focus where […]

Russia to Build 4 Units at 2 Thermal Power Plants in Cuba

HAVANA, Oct.22 Russia and Cuba are planning to sign an agreement to construct four units at two thermal power plants in Cuba, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s decree said Monday. “Approve… a draft agreement between the Russian Government and the Government of Cuba on the construction of power units at Maximo Gomes and Este Habana thermal power plants,” the decree reads. “And after coming to terms, […]

Cuba and France cooperate on cinema and culture

HAVANA, Oct.19  The Cuban Institute Cinematographic of Arts and Industry (ICAIC) signed Thursday a grant agreement aimed at funding digital cinema at Cine La Rampa, located in Havana. ICAIC President Roberto Smith highlighted that the agreement will extend the already-existing collaboration between both countries in the areas of “co production, preservation of heritage, and the […]

New Flights from Cayman Brac to Holguin

HAVANA, Oct. 18 Cayman Airways has announced plans to launch flights between Cayman Brac and Holguin. The flights will launch on Nov. 28, operating once weekly on Saturdays. Cayman Airways Express will provide connecting flights to and from Grand Cayman. “This new service to eastern Cuba is designed to complement the airline’s existing flights between Havana and […]