The Council of Ministers of Cuba decided at its current meeting to open up the retail sale of new and used motorcycles, cars, vans and minibuses. Cubans with well-off relatives in the United States and other countries will be a considerable percentage of those able to take advantage of the relaxing of restrictions.
Read MoreThe Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) agreed to pay $100 million US dollars for violation of US sanctions on Iran, Sudan, Burma and Cuba. In a statement issued RBS said it “deeply regrets” its violations of the sanctions and promised greater controls in the future.
Read MoreCuba’s largest artisans fair, FIART, opens Monday to the public in its new location at the fortress overlooking the Havana harbor entrance. It will run through December 22. [The fair was scheduled to open Sunday but was put off a day for the national mourning declared for the death of Nelson Mandela.] (21 photos)
Read MoreDe tarde en casa (“Afternoon at Home”) is the name of a Cuban television program aired every Sunday at 5 in the afternoon and hosted by Rakel Mayedo. I’ve seen the program a couple of times and found it interesting every so often because of the guests invited on the show. But on this occasion I was totally bewildered.
Read MoreThe roast pork will have to wait. Some of the people who had planned to travel from the U.S. to Cuba in December to celebrate Christmas, bid farewell to 2013 and spend the school holidays with their relatives will be unable to do so “until further notice.”
Read MoreThe Cuban Interests Section in Washington announced the suspension of its consular services in the USA over the inability to get a bank to service their accounts in the country. It warned of the “negative consequences” the situation will have for Cubans, Americans and exchanges with the island.
Read MoreCuban President Raul Castro met over the weekend with Sechin Igor Ivanovich , Chairman of Rosneft Oil, who led a Russian delegation made ??a working visit to the island.
Read MoreDespite the damage to health caused by smoking millions of people still seek out high quality tobacco and Cuba maintains that it has the best. At a recent trade fair in Havana the island’s state and joint venture companies that market Cuban tobacco displayed their most popular brands. (26 photos)
Read MoreThe recently concluded Havana International Fair provided Cuban pharmaceutical companies the opportunity to exhibit their products to foreign buyers. Among the firms participating were Labiofam and Farmacuba whose production of medicines and vaccines are exported to numerous counties. (30 photos)
Read MoreMinister of Health Roberto Morales Ojeda became the first Cuban government to comment on the criticisms leveled by Brazilian doctors to the agreement that allows Brazil to “import” several thousand Cuban MDs to work in places with poor health care services, reported dpa news.
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