People who receive supplementary assistance from the US Social Security Administration and travel to Cuba for an extended stay will lose their benefits after a month’s stay outside the United States. Under the embargo, Treasury Department regulations prohibit sending payments to Cuba.
Read MoreCuban President Raul Castro said he is pleased with the pace of reforms on the island, during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday which analyzed the guidelines for the economic plan and budget for 2014 .
Read MoreThe Cuban government will implement new taxes in 2014, the Minister of Finance and Prices, Lina Pedraza Rodriguez, told the Council of Ministers on Tuesday. Pedraza also announced that as of next year State owned companies will be able to use up to 50% of their profits after taxes, for development, investment and direct stimulation to their workers.
Read MoreMarino Murillo, one of Cuba’s vice presidents and considered the gatekeeper of the Communist Party’s economic “updating”, told the Council of Ministers on Tuesday that a first group of 126 non-agricultural cooperatives will be operational soon.
Read MoreClarinetist Vincent Monterrey and guitarist Luis Manuel Molina will present new versions of songs by The Beatles in a concert that sets the mood for the upcoming Cubadisco awards event.
Read MoreFollowing criticisms of racism on the island leveled by Cuban scholar Roberto Zurbano last week in The New York Times, several cultural figures have weighed into the debate.
Read MoreA group of seven dancers from the National Ballet of Cuba left the prestigious company in the middle of last March in Mexico, en route to the United States, reported the Café Fuerte website on Tuesday.
Read MoreCuban athlete Leuris Pupo, an Olympic champion in the 2012 London games, will compete along with twenty other Cuban sharpshooters in the Central American and Caribbean Championships scheduled to be held in Guatemala from April 14 to 21.
Read MoreThe Cuban government has issued a regulation for “maquiladora” companies that will operate in the future Special Development Zone at Mariel, a port west of Havana that’s being expanded into a major facility, reports AFP.
Read MoreThe list of current Cuban League refugees now opening the 2013 season on big league rosters is hardly a very extensive one. In short, it is once again altogether obvious that some of the most talented recent “escapees” from island baseball are still finding the pathway to top-level professional baseball strewn with many unavoidable and even insurmountable pitfalls.
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