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NY1 Exclusive: Arturo O'Farrill To Travel To Cuba To Live Out Father's Dream

<p style="text-align: justify;">Latin Jazz musician and bandleader Arturo O'Farrill has performed all over the world, but no trip can rival the one he has planned for December. O’Farrill has be given permission to fly to Cuba for a historic concert that fulfills a lifelong dream. NY1's Stephanie Simon filed the following exclusive report on O'Farrill's plans to perform his father's music in Cuba for the first time. Arturo O'Farrill is always at home at the piano playing. But it's father's homeland and music that continue to beckon him. Legendary composer and bandleader Chico O'Farrill died in 2001 without realizing his dream to return Cuba. He hadn't been there since 1960. Read More

Miami group proposes micro loans and investment program

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Cuba Study Group, whose board includes some of the wealthiest Cuban American businesspeople, is a weathervane of exile politics. Founded in 2000 by Miami insurance tycoon Carlos Saladrigas, in the aftermath of the Elián González clashes to bring more pragmatism to Cuban American activism, the Cuba Study Group has been inching towards advocacy of normalization with Cuba. Last year, Saladrigas stated it was time to seek interaction with Cuba, including the government, and this year the group came out in support of lifting the U.S. travel ban. In an interview with Cuba Standard, Executive Director Tomás Bilbao, a former assistant of Senator Mel Martinez, explained the group’s microloan initiative, and its proposal for U.S. economic engagement in Cuba. Read More

Exotic Shrimp Found in Cienfuegos Bay

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.10.22 - 18:35:08 / [email protected]. Cienfuegos, Cuba.- A shellfish species known as kinglet rock shrimp, which is not typically found in the warm waters of the Caribbean, was reported by Cuban scientists in Cienfuegos Bay. According to researcher Raul Fernandez Garcia of the Environmental Studies Center of Cienguegos (CEAC), this type of shrimp of the genus Sicyonia typical has never been seen in the bay. Read More

Cuba Hammers Czech Republic at Intercontinental Baseball

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 23 (acn) The Cuban national baseball team hammered handed the Czech Republic a stunning super KO 18-0 in its inaugural game at the Intercontinental Baseball Cup underway in Chinese Taipei. The game’s outcome was decided in the very first inning when the Cubans scored five times against the weak Czech pitching staff that couldn’t have a shutout inning in the six they played. Read More

King’s Gardens International Fishing Tournament a Success, says Organizer

<p style="text-align: justify;">CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba, Oct 23 (acn) Cuba’s Sport Fishing Federation president José Ramón Cuza Delgado said the large variety of captured fish at the First King’s Gardens International Fishing Tournament reaffirms the potentials of this tourism pole, and described the event as a success. Read More

Crown jewel of the Cuban countryside

<p style="text-align: justify;">Saturday | October 23, 2010. So hubby and I are up at the crack of dawn - well, more like 6 a.m. - but you can't tell because outside is as dark as midnight. We're anxious and excited about venturing into the Cuban countryside. We have to meet the tour bus by 7:30 a.m.,so the rush is on to get ready, have breakfast and be in the lobby of El Bosque Hotel before 7:20 a.m. By 8 a.m., we're on our way! Our destination? Pinar del Rio, a province at the westernmost end of Cuba. Famous for its natural beauty, flora and fauna, Pinar del Rio, or Pine Forest of the River, is an ideal spot for ecotourism. Read More

Cuba Lays Out Tax Rules for Entrepreneurs as Business Opportunities Expand

<p style="text-align: justify;">BLOOMBERG. By Blake Schmidt - Oct 22, 2010 Cuba vowed to crack down on self- employed tax evaders as the government laid out new tax regulations as part of a "redesign" of the economy that will allow more private enterprise. The Communist Party newspaper Granma said the new tax rules are aimed at "avoiding concentration of wealth." It based its information on interviews with tax officials including deputy director of the tax administration, Vladimir Regueiro Ale. Read More

UN Speeds Up Aid to Haiti for Cholera

<p style="text-align: justify;">Sábado, 23 de octubre de 2010.21:29United Nations, Oct 22 (Prensa Latina) The United Nations is speeding up medical aid to Haiti to face the outbreak of cholera that has provoked the death of at least 150 people, as confirmed by a high official of the organization Friday. Read More

There's Nothing Wrong with Cuban Baseball

<p style="text-align: justify;">Unlike its North American and Asian professional counterparts, the Cuban League version of the sport is played far more for pride and passion than for the tarnished purposes of supporting a highly profitable commercial enterprise. Cuban fans not only witness major league style talent in their own backyards but also enjoy a truly unique experience of rooting for hometown teams that actually consist of homegrown athletes' ballplayers born in the local village and not merely rented for a season or two before they peddle their talents on the open market to some other bitter league rival. Read More

Cuba Experts Say TS Richard Stronger

<p style="text-align: justify;">October 23, 2010 | HAVANA TIMES, Oct. 22 — Tropical Storm Richard has picked up in intensity as it continues to move slowly in the western Caribbean, notes Cuba’s Meteorological Institutute (INSMET) on Friday evening. Richard was located at 200 kilometers (125 miles) northeast of Cabo Gracias a Dios on the Nicaragua-Honduras border at 6:00 p.m. EST and moving west at 7 kph (4.5 mph). Read More