The Cuban government is considering lowering to three years the period of prohibition of entry to the country after an act of illegal immigration and plans to expand the amount of currency that travelers can carry upon entry without formally declaring it.
Read MoreCuban President Raul Castro turned 83 on Tuesday amid no celebrations and little mention in the official press, reported dpa news.
Read MoreGranma, the leading daily in Cuba, has as its top story today an unusual complaint from Fidel Castro.
Read MoreThe Canadian company Sherritt announced Monday the signing of a new contract with Cuban authorities for joint venture drilling and gas production for 10 years, extendable to 2028. The company’s executives have suffered reprisals from Washington for its economic relationship with Cuba, including being denied entry to the USA.
Read MoreA virtual spokesperson for the Cuban government reiterated today the Castro administration’s willingness to swap US citizen Alan Gross for the three Cuban Five members still imprisoned in the USA. His remarks came as the US and the Taliban made public an exchange that freed a US soldier in Afghanistan for the release to Qatar of Taliban militants held at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo.
Read MoreThe US State Department plans to spend $1.2 million to send 75 to 100 Cuban teenagers to the United States in the summers of 2015 and 2016, “to develop leadership skills and learn about civic participation and community engagement.” Participants must be 16 to 18 years old.
Read MoreThe socialist state telephone company, ETECSA, complains about the competition from individuals “using the Internet as an alternative route” to supplant “the role that corresponds to the company” and “International Telephone Companies” bringing “heavy financial losses.”
Read More“Cuba is changing some of its economic policies and the private sector is evidently growing,” said US Chamber of Commerce President, Thomas Donahue, during his speech at the University of Havana, in which he condemned the economic embargo Washington has been imposing on Havana for more than fifty years.
Read More“It is time to begin a new chapter in U.S.-Cuba relations,” said Thomas J. Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, addressing students, academicians and other guests at the University of Havana on Thursday (May 29).
Read MoreThe Cuban Customs office issued a statement today warning travelers to the island of a crackdown on the carrying of packages for third parties. The measure especially affects Cuban-Americans who routinely carry parcels from friends and neighbors when traveling to the island.
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