Barclays agrees to forfeit $298 million to settle sanction violations charges

<p style="text-align: justify;">Monday, August 16, 2010; 10:26 PM. Barclays Bank has agreed to forfeit $298 million to U.S. and New York authorities to settle criminal charges brought Monday by federal prosecutors, who allege that the British bank violated U.S. financial sanctions against Cuba, Iran, Libya, Sudan and Burma for more than a decade by knowingly aiding banks in those countries with $500 million in transactions with U.S. entities from 1995 to 2006. Read More

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Book accommodation in Cuba for a 'must-do' holiday

<p style="text-align: justify;">Mon, 16 Aug 2010. There is much to see and do once visitors have checked into their accommodation in Cuba - but the key to a wonderful getaway is just being there. Read More

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Cuba cut U.S. food imports 28% this year

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA - Cuba has continued to slash agricultural purchases from the U.S. even as a key bill that would ease Washington's Cuban travel ban and make it easier to sell more food to the island works its way through Congress, according to a report released today. Read More

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Obama May Ease Cuba Travel Rules; Former Leader in Sector Prepares prnewswire

<p style="text-align: justify;">NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., Aug. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Recent, widespread reports on the likelihood of an ease on travel restrictions between the U.S. and Cuba have made Cross-Cultural Solutions (CCS), the former leading provider of legal, people-to-people travel to Cuba for Americans, envision the future of their previously halted programs. Read More

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Stem Cell Treatment Benefits Cubans

<p style="text-align: justify;">Nearly 1,478 Cubans have been benefited from 2004 to May 2010 with a stem cell treatment, improving living standard, Granma newspaper reported. Read More

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Exhibition by Wilfredo Lam in Nantes

<p style="text-align: justify;">The exhibition Journey between the Caribbean and the avant-gardes, which throughout this summer has become the center of attention at the Beau Arts Museum in Nantes, the French city where famous writer Jules Verne was born, has turned the painter of La jungla (the Jungle) into a highly valuable character, since it has been discovered in the integrity of its career by young people who had historical information on the painter’s importance for the artistic renovation of the 20th century, but who didn’t know the real scope of that contribution. Read More

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Yoruba Andabo Group successfully performed in Brazil

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Cuban dance company Yoruba Andabo performed with a full theater and with total acceptance in Belo Horizonte, the capital of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, informed the organizers of the tour. Read More

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Supply stores open in latest Cuba farm reform move

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba is opening stores in the countryside where farm supplies are being sold freely for the first time as the Cuban government moves to reform and revitalize long-centralized agriculture, farmers said. Read More

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Panama President makes unannounced visit to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Newsroom Panama - August 15. Political leaders are not usually camera shy, so it was a surprise when President Ricardo Martinelli made an “under the wraps” trip on the presidential jet, to Cuba, for a “private” visit with Cuban leader Raul Castro. Read More

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U.S. charges Britain's Barclays Bank with violating sanctions

<p style="text-align: justify;">Some people are under the impression, or giving out the impression, that Washington is ending the half-century-long blockade of Cuba. This doesn't tell us exactly what Barclay's admitted that it did as far as Cuba is concerned. Some of that will probably come out in time. Read More

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