EU seeks more dialogue with Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">EU foreign affairs chief, Baroness Ashton - 25 Oct 10 Lady Ashton is steering foreign policy as head of the EU's new diplomatic service. The EU foreign affairs chief, Baroness Ashton, is set to contact the Cuban government in an effort to improve ties with Havana, diplomats say. Read More

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Cuba publishes rules for self-employment into law, gives new details on taxes

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Associated Press. HAVANA - Cuba has made official the grand economic changes it announced last month, publishing nearly 100 pages of rules and regulations for small businesses in the government Gazette on Monday. The move means eagerly anticipated licenses for the self-employed should be around the corner. Lines of potential entrepreneurs formed Monday at several government offices around the capital. Read More

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Cuba is the Second Haiti, Norman Girvan

<p style="text-align: justify;">Haiti was the first Cuba-actually, Cuba is the second Haiti. Haiti was isolated at birth - ostracised and denied access to world trade, finance,and institutional development. Thus was Haiti punished by France,with the support of the other Western slave-owning nations. The French lifted their embargo after 21 years, extorting a massive Independence debt? for the loss of their "property"-which included members of the Haitian Cabinet. The US withheld recognition from Haiti for 58 years. Cuba has gone 48 years under the US embargo... Read More

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REUTERS: Exclusive: Gross'case and USA's behavior

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Jewish community in Cuba has a website:http://www.chcuba.org/inicio.htm complete with email contacts so I am assuming that they have adequate Internet access. By Dana Lubow, My questions:&nbsp; 1. How is it possible that Gross went to Cuba five times "to help Havana's Jewish community" and no one from the main Jewish center in Havana or the nationwide Jewish association had ever heard of him? Read More

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EU recognizes changes in Cuba; weighs better ties

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Associated Press (CP) LUXEMBOURG.&nbsp; The European Union said Monday it is considering an improvement of its relations with Cuba because of changes taking place there. Catherine Ashton, the European Union foreign affairs chief, said the Europeans "want a period of reflection" to see if and how ties can be improved. She did not elaborate, except to say, "I have no plans at the moment to travel to Cuba." Read More

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Cuba self-employed to pay taxes up to 50 percent

<p style="text-align: justify;">Mon Oct 25, 2010 5:37pm GMT. By Nelson Acosta. HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba has set income tax rates at 25 to 50 percent for its soon to be expanded private sector, with the biggest earners paying the most taxes, according to official decrees published on Monday. The rates will range from nothing for those making 5,000 pesos -- equivalent to $225 (143 pounds) -- or less a year to 50 percent for those in the highest bracket, which is more than 50,000 pesos, or $2,252. Read More

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ICAIC in the 22nd Havana International Ballet Festival

<p style="text-align: justify;">25 de Octubre 2010. As part of the collateral activities to the main events of the coming 22nd Havana International Ballet Festival, today, October 25th at 8:00 PM, at the Charles Chaplin Theater Gallery, the Cuban Cinema Institute, (ICAIC) will inaugurate an exhibition of color and black and white ballet photos taken by ICAIC stillmen, ICAIC posters about ballets and some set designs elements used in films devoted to that artistic expression. Read More

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Brazilian Election Campaign Heats Up

<p style="text-align: justify;">Lunes, 25 de octubre de 2010. 10:18Brasilia, Oct 25 (Prensa Latina) Brazilian presidential candidates Dilma Rousseff and Jose Serra on Monday were ratcheting up the personal attacks as campaigning continued for Sunday's election runoff. Read More

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Cuba AHO Y ! A family sailing adventure to see Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Special to The Washington Post. Sunday, October 24, 2010. It was probably my stepdaughter, Doony, who had the idea, but the proposition was greeted so enthusiastically by other members of the family that it would be hard for her to claim exclusive ownership at this point."Why don't we sail to Cuba?" she said. And we answered, "Why not?" It's True, Washington and Havana are officially on the outs, but the journey seemed so inviting. We are, after all, practically neighbors: Cuba is only 90 miles from Key West, Fla., and our boat was only two days' sail from there, in West Palm Beach. Read More

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No hepatitis B cases reported in 9 years in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">English.news.cn.2010-10-25 09:39:02. HAVANA, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Cuba has not reported any case of hepatitis B for the last nine years, Dr. Luis Herrera, director of the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, said here on Sunday. Herrera said achievement is possible due to the vaccination against Hepatitis B, produced in the center run by him.He said that Cuba has exported over 120 million doses of the vaccine to several countries. Read More

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