The Cuban International Cigar Company (ICT) increased its exports by 7.5 per cent as compared to last year, by marketing 119.3 million cigar packages, Blas Manuel Fernández, economic director of that entity, reported. In 2010 the ICT carried out sales worth 18.8 million dollars of its catalogue of 10 Havana cigar brands.
Read MoreDocumentary filmmaker Michael Moore has responded to false claims that his film Sicko, mainly about the US health industry, was banned in Cuba. Moore maintains just the opposite and sites several Cuba news reports to back his assertion that the US government made up the story to try and discredit the film’s information about health care in the US and Cuba.
Read MoreA total lunar eclipse will be visible in Cuba on early Tuesday as Fall turns to Winter in the Northern Hemisphere. In Cuba, the total phase of the eclipse will be visible for a little over an hour starting at 2:41 a.m. Tuesday and ending at 3:53 a.m.
Read MoreCuban and Chinese authorities have agreed to normalize their financial relations as a result of the 23rd Session of the Intergovernmental Commission. The Asian giant also gave the island an unspecified interest-free governmental credit and a donation, both for development projects.
Read MoreSculptures by French painter Edgar Degas are being exhibited in the Havana Museum of Fine Arts for the first time in the history of Latin America, in tribute to prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso, director of the Cuban National Ballet, who is celebrating her 90th birthday.
Read MoreCuba’s President Raul Castro addressed his country’s parliament on Saturday at the closing of a session dedicated to discuss the economic reforms the government has begun to implement that include the laying off of some 500,000 public employees by the end of March and expand the possibilities for self-employment and small business.
Read MoreCienfuegos (11-5) and Ciego de Avila (11-5) are riding on top of Cuba’s 2010-2011 baseball standings approaching 20 percent of the 90-game season.
Read MoreThe Cuban traditional dissidence is divided and remains alien to the interests of young persons, in addition to being practically unknown by the population, according to the opinion of the last two heads of the U.S. Interests Section in Cuba, Wikileaks dispatches revealed. The current U.S. representative on the island, Jonathan Farrar, considered that the anti-establishment position of young artists and bloggers was more attractive and would have greater impact in a post Castro era.
Read MoreWith the start of operations of the XL Airways France airline, flying from Paris to Varadero, the weekly flights between France and Cuba now amount to nine. That company hopes to bring at least 160 tourists on each trip through April 2011.
Read MoreCuba will not have a “small shop economy,” Cuban Minister of Economy and Planning Marino Murillo affirmed. He reiterated the government’s will to maintain the predominant role of the socialist state enterprise, despite the expansion of the private sector. The minister, in statements to parliament, insisted on the need to give greater autonomy to state enterprises and eliminate the subsidies to entities with losses.
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