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Cuba Urges Population to Save Energy this Summer

MATANZAS, Cuba, May 11 (acn) Cuban experts warned about the need to increase savings and to control energy spending on daily basis to counteract the electricity demand generated by the high temperatures forecasted for this summer. Read More

Petrobras gets more time to decide Cuba oil plans

HAVANA, May 6 (Reuters) - Cuba has given Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobras (PETR4.SA) (PBR.N) a six-month extension on its May deadline to decide whether it will drill a well in Cuban waters, a Petrobras spokesman said on Thursday. Read More

Repsol has contract for oil rig said Cuba-bound

HAVANA, May 5 (Reuters) - Spanish oil giant Repsol YPF has contracted with a unit of Italian oil company Eni SpA (ENI.MI) for a drilling rig that some sources said was bound for operation in Cuba's still untapped offshore fields. Read More

Senate: U.S. broadcasts to Cuba failed

Radio and TV Marti, the U.S. government-sponsored broadcasts to Cuba, have failed to make an impact on the communist-led island and sometimes show a pro-Cuban bias in news reporting, a new Senate report said on Monday. Read More

US Senate panel urges overhaul of broadcasts to Cuba

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US government-backed radio and television broadcasts into Cuba reach a tiny audience there and suffer from poor editorial standards, a US Senate Committee said in a scathing report released Monday. Read More

Cuba to Take Part in Belarus Media Exhibition

Cuba is going to take part in the Belarus 14th Mass Media International Specialized Exhibition which takes place every year in this capital, the First Deputy Minister of Information announced. Read More

Cell phone subscribers in Cuba to surpass one million by year's end

(NECN/CNN) - Outside of a cell phone store in Havana, Lidai pops out with a leather case for her new Nokia. Read More

FAO Considers LatAm Agriculture as Strategic

Agriculture is an activity of strategic importance to the economic and social development of Latin America and the Caribbean, said on Wednesday Director General of FAO, Jacques Diouf. Read More

Mobile phones said to boost Cuba’s tourism sector

HAVANA, Cuba – Cuba, which is predicting it will have at least two million mobile phone lines available by 2015, says the tourism industry has benefited tremendously since the expansion of the cellular telephone network a few years ago. Read More

150 Million Dollars in Cell Phones

Cuba invested about 150 million dollars for the development of cellular phones since 2003 and plans to exceed the first million lines at the end of this year, reported official sources today. Read More

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