Cuban Cigars Confiscated More Than Ever, Retailers Rejoice

<p style="text-align: justify;">Nearly every cigar smoker who's gotten nailed bringing Cubans back into the country has hatched some sort of conspiracy theory about where the snatched goods go. Invariably, the imagined plot ends with the TSA propping its feet up at the Grand Havana Room – or some other swanky establishment – puffing away on what should have been ill-gotten gains. Read More

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Cuba, Kiribati sign cooperation agreements

<p style="text-align: justify;">Xinhua. 18:16, December 15, 2010. Cuban Vice Foreign Minister Marcos Rodriguez Costa and Kiribati Foreign Minister Tessie Eria Lambourne signed an agreement Tuesday to boost bilateral cooperation. Kiribati President Anote Tong and his delegation are officially visiting the Caribbean island country. Read More

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Cuban Cooperative Collects One Million Liters of Milk

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.12.14 - 17:31:54 / [email protected]. Cuban Agronomy Students Take Advantage of Onfield Training Camaguey, Cuba.- The Benito Viñales Credit and Services Cooperative, in the central Cuban province of Camaguey, sold the State a million liters of milk for the first time, and it is the seventh unit in the territory to attain these figures. Read More

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Cuban Parliament’s Standing Commissions Meet Prior to Full Session

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.12.14 - 18:27:04 / [email protected]. Cuban Parliament’s Standing Commissions Meet Prior to Full Session. Havana, Cuba.- The 12 standing commissions of the Cuban parliament started their working meetings prior to the Sixth Period of Sessions of the Seventh Legislature.Deputies will analyze the work done by the commissions throughout the year and they will approve plans to be implemented in 2011. Read More

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EU business administration program suspended

<p style="text-align: justify;">In a sign of how all-encompassing changes are keeping government officials busy, the launch of a European Union-funded business administration school in Havana has been suspended. Read More

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Ex-ambassador declines to discuss his advocacy of Bush's policy on Spain, Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">He was just a messenger, former envoy says. The Cuban-born ex-U.S. ambassador to Spain, Eduardo Aguirre Reyes, has written a noncommittal explanation of why he cannot expand on the WikiLeaks revelations about his diplomatic service in Madrid between 2005 and 2008. Read More

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Cuban newspaper praises relations with Vietnam

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Granma daily newspaper, the official organ of the Cuban Communist Party, has run an article, highlighting the 50 th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Cuba and Vietnam. Read More

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Ghana fulfils Usufruct Agreement with Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">December 14, 2010. Accra, Dec. 14, GNA - Ghana on Tuesday fulfilled her part of the Usufruct Agreement signed in April, 1982 with Cuba following the handing over of the Chancery building of the Cuban Embassy in Accra. Read More

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Visitors to Cuba from USA on pace not seen since the 50s

<p style="text-align: justify;">Tourists and locals sit on a wall along the waterfront in Havana; Aug. 25, 2010.As many as 400,000 U.S. citizens are expected to visit Cuba by year's end, Nick Miroff reports from Havana for NPR. That's five times more than in 2008, the year before the Obama administration lifted travel restrictions for those with family on the island, and a number not seen since before the Cuban revolution. Read More

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U.S. baseball officials may visit Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">Havana is scheduled to host a meeting of the executive committee of the International Baseball Federation (IBAF) on Feb. 5, to which Major League Baseball (MLB) officials are invited.The meeting will make decisions about international tournaments, including the Major League-led Baseball Classic 2012, and a strategy to bring baseball back to the Olympics, IBAF President Riccardo Fraccari said on Cuban radio, according to the correspondent of Mexico’s Por Esto. Read More

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