The Cuban government eliminated restrictions and simplified the procedures for renting homes in order to facilitate self-employment and alleviate the housing deficit the country is facing, the official media commented today. A new regulation on the subject authorizes the renting of homes even for persons with Cuban nationality who have permits to reside abroad.
Read MoreCuba’s 2010-2011 Baseball Season opened with a thriller on Sunday as Villa Clara defeated last year’s champions Industriales 6-5 in 11 innings before nearly 40,000 fans at Havana’s Latinoamericano Stadium.
Read MoreCuba will send 300 health professionals to Haiti to strengthen its contingent, already near 1,000 strong, deployed in that country, with the aim of answering the call made by UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos, who asked the international community for more aid to face the cholera epidemic, former President Fidel Castro announced in his most recent Reflection.
Read MoreThe Cuban authorities have received more than 80,000 applications for self-employment since the start of the reform begun by the government last October to expand the private sector on the island, announced the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. This opening hopes to absorb part of the 500,000 persons who will be jobless up to March 2011.
Read MoreWe’re now accustomed to waiting for the end of November for the Young Jazz Musicians International Competition (JoJazz). This competition has among its many merits its having promoted this art form that seduces a good part of music students, motivating them to take excursions into traditional jazz styles while also compelling them to search for their own approaches to creativity.
Read MoreAmong the movies competing in this 32nd International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Cuba is presenting four films: Fernando Perez’s José Martí: el ojo del canario; Casa Vieja, by Lester Hamlet; Larga Distancia, by Esteban Insausti; and Boleto al Paraíso, by Gerardo Chijona. The festival gets underway on Dec. 2 and runs through the 12th.
Read MoreThe 50th National Baseball Series will begin in Cuba on Sunday, with a game between the Industriales, last season’s champs hailing from the capital city, and Villa Clara, the runner-ups, at the Latin American Stadium in this capital, reported IPS. Baseball is Cuba’s national sport and pride of the island at international tournaments. Recently the national team finished second at the World Cup qualifier in Puerto Rico and won the Intercontinental Championship in Taiwan.
Read MoreCuba and Azerbaijan will strengthen their cooperation in informatics and communications, the press reported after the meeting between the Azerbaijan minister of information and communications technology, Ali Abbasov, and Cuban Deputy Minister Manuel López García during the 2010 Bakutel Fair, held in the capital of the Asian country, reported IPS.
Read More“Cuba is prepared to take advantage of China’s development experience in reform and opening,” affirmed Ricardo Alarcón, speaker of the National Assembly of People’s Power (parliament), during a meeting in Beijing with his Chinese counterpart Wu Bangguo. The island’s government has begun a series of changes officially described as “updating of socialism,” reported IPS.
Read MoreThe Cuban government will increase the supply and amount of some products in the retail network of shops to meet the demand of self-employment, which should grow in 2011 with the opening of new licenses, sources from the Ministry of Economy and Planning announced. Tools and food such as rice and eggs are some of the products to be sold.
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