The recently opened Gran Hotel Manzana Kempinski, Cuba’s most luxurious and expensive hotel with rooms up to US $1300, pays its cleaning staff US $9.75 a month (in local currency) plus a US $10 stimulus in hard currency.
Read MoreToday, the 4th of July, is national holiday in the United States celebrated for over two hundred years. However it isn’t all the population that was included in the famous declaration of Independence with reason to celebrate.
Read MoreThe Cuban squad managed by Roger Machado suffered its second defeat in the friendly series with a university team of the United States. Including the team’s play in the Can-Am league in Canada, the islanders now have 18 losses in 23 games.
Read MoreThe concessionary company of the Nicaragua Interoceanic Canal, the Chinese firm HKND Group, informed that it is working “with international partners” to move ahead with designs for the western locks and Brito port, in the Nicaraguan Pacific.
Read MoreThe Spanish hotel chain Melia, is betting on national tourism this summer, with an “outlet” sale campaign for Cuban families. They are offering discounts for grandparents, free accommodation for children under the age of 11 and 50% off the price for children aged 11-13 years old.
Read MoreThe Cuban team playing in the Can-Am baseball league in Canada ended its play for the season with a loss to the Rockland Boulders on Thursday. However, all hell broke loose in the 9th inning after an overturned call, in a highly embarrassing finish silenced thus far in Cuba.
Read MoreFive Cuban volleyball players convicted after a rape scandal in Finland received a reduction in their sentences by an appeals court in the northern city of Turku, and one of them was immediately released.
Read MoreIf you follow the rocky road through the thick brush surrounding the Nejapa lagoon southwest of Managua – once the crater of a volcano – you reach a cement wall crowned by barbed wire. Just visible is the roof of a modest-sized building, painted in blue.
Read MoreThe Cuban government has announced that it will extend land leases to 20 years so that citizens can continue farming them, and it also made clear that it would impose “a set of measures” regarding self-employed labor in the country.
Read MoreDuring the coming 7-day forecast period, the days will be hot with partly cloudy skies and high moisture content. In the afternoons the cloudiness will increase and some rains and isolated thunderstorms will be possible that could extend into the night.
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