A policy change by Cuba’s government is bringing cruiser tourism back to the Caribbean island. On Wednesday the British cruise ship Thomson Dream with over 1,500 passengers pulled into Havana Harbor for a two-night stay.
Read MoreThe weather this week will be influenced by a high pressure system with weak gradients. There is a chance of rain on Friday morning. Maximum temperatures are expected to fluctuate between the 27°C (81 F) and the 22°C (72 F), with minimum temperatures of between 17°C (63 F) and 15°C (59 F).
Read MoreMinister of Higher Education Miguel Díaz-Canel questioned the university enrollment policies in the last five years, which led to a deficit of 110,000 professionals in different technical fields, agriculture and natural sciences, pedagogies and mathematics for a lack of correspondence between the economic needs of the country and the enrollments opened.
Read MoreCuba’s Cubatabaco state-run company brought a lawsuit against U.S. businessman Ismail Houmani for using in his cigar and cigarette shop a name very similar to the Casas del Habano (Cigar shops), the Miami-based El Nuevo Herald reported. The Casa de La Habana, which was opened in Michigan 10 years ago, sells cigars made in Honduras, Dominican Republic and Nicaragua.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro met last Dec. 29 with Ecuadorian Vice President Lenín Moreno. Castro said that the island would back the new National Program for the Prevention of Disabilities, a continuation of the diagnosis done through the Manuela Espejo brigades.
Read MoreThe labor reform in the state sector, which will represent the laying off of half a million persons by the end of March, begins today in Cuba in the ministries of the sugar industry, agriculture, construction, public health and tourism, announced Salvador Valdés, general secretary of the Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions, the only union organization in the country.
Read MoreThe U.S. Coast Guard repatriated 16 Cuban emigrants intercepted at sea close to Bahamas when they were attempting to reach the United States on a speedboat, according to Coast Guard sources. Three persons suspected of trafficking in persons were detained as part of the interception.
Read MoreCuban priests of the Yoruba religion in charge of announcing the predictions of the “Letter of the Year” coincided that 2011 will be a period of organization in the island, in tune with the reforms announced by the Raúl Castro government, the press accredited in this capital reported. The Commission of the Letter of the Year as well as the Yoruba Association of Cuba interpreted that Oggun, the patron of blacksmiths and the military, will be the ruling deity in the next 12 months.
Read More“The Cuban economy will get rid of the padding, inefficiency and formalism which has permeated it for years” with the reforms announced by the Raul Castro government, which will be discussed during the April congress of the Communist Party of Cuba, said Roberto Verrier Castro, president of the National Association of Economists and Accountants of Cuba.
Read MoreIn contrast to politicians, “culture brings people together,” noted Wynton Marsalis, 49, in an interview with 60-Minutes on his recent trip to Cuba heading up the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
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