Cuba has just announced it will drill the deepest oil well of its prospecting history. The planned 8,200-meter-deep well planned west of Matanzas speaks to the extensive technical capacity of current prospecting efforts on the island.
Read MoreRefills for prepaid cell phones and payment of telephone bills via the Internet will be available to Cubans starting this week, announced the official website Cubadebate, citing ETECSA as its source.
Read MoreThe following is the list of the products available to Havana residents with their ration book during the week of January 20-26.
Read MoreA former British MP and Treasury Minister has made a deal to invest in Cuban coffee farming, reports the Telegraph on Thursday. Businessman Phillip Oppenheim will invest some US $4 million over five years in a coffee growing community in southeastern Cuba.
Read MoreA new law governing self-employment has been published in Cuba’s Official Gazette, the daily Granma reported today (Jan. 15). Law No. 315 spells out the punishments to be handed out to individuals who do not observe the regulations set for “non-state activities.”
Read MoreUnproductive and/or inefficient state-run enterprises were warned that they could be shut down or turned over to self-employed workers if they didn’t mend their ways. The warning came in an article Monday in the Communist Party daily Granma.
Read MoreHere is the list of the products available to Havana residents with their ration book during the week of January 13-19.
Read MoreThis year the Cuban government hopes to convert the drivers of twenty state taxi agencies into self-employed taxi drivers, reports dpa news on Wednesday. The measure will be implemented “gradually” throughout 2014.
Read MoreMexican President Enrique Peña Nieto will make an official visit to Cuba in late January in his effort towards improved relations with the island and also to attend a summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), reported dpa news.
Read MoreA former Mexican ambassador to Cuba is proposing that Mexico and Cuba set up “a strategic partnership on matters of energy” to firm up relations between the two countries.
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