Standing committees of the Cuba’s National Assembly of Popular Power (parliament) is concluding discussions today around the plan for the country’s economy and the state budget law for 2012.
Read MoreThe possibility of Cuba becoming an oil-producing country is worrying politicians in the US. They have therefore begun putting pressure on those firms operating in Cuban waters, particularly the Spanish corporation Repsol, which will be the first to start drilling.
Read MoreStarting tomorrow, December 20, new regulations will come into force pertaining to Cuban credit policy and other banking services. Those prioritized will be self-employed workers, farmers and those people seeking to build or repair their homes by their own means.
Read MoreCuban pianist and composer Gonzalo Rubalcaba returned to the Cuban stage during the International Jazz Festival-Plaza 2011, after 12 years of living in the United States.
Read MoreNearly a dozen hotels at the Varadero beach resort recorded economic losses in 2011. This information was made known yesterday in a meeting of the tourism workers’ union in the province of Matanzas.
Read MoreCuban President Raul Castro welcomed the upcoming visit to the island by the supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church, in a meeting yesterday with a delegation from the Vatican.
Read MoreThe Cuban firm Labiofam recently presented its products in the Mongolia capital of Ulan Bator, including Vidatox-30CH, a complementary alternative for the treatment of cancer.
Read MoreThe International Jazz Plaza Festival began as a free event in the 80’s. The only thing anyone needed to get in to the Plaza Casa de la Cultura (cultural center) was good energy and desire to listen to jazz. Later they started asking an admission price, which has been rising gradually to where it is 25 pesos for nationals ($1 USD) and 25 CUC’s (pushing $30 for foreigners).(7 photos)
Read MoreThe proposed tightening of travel restrictions to Cuba on Cuban-Americans was withdrawn by members of the US House of Representatives and the Senate Appropriations Committees.
Read MoreTourism, oil, mining and energy are priority sectors in the development of foreign investment in Cuba, reported the weekly magazine Opciones yesterday.
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