Cuba announces tax break for private businesses

<p style="text-align: justify;">By PAUL HAVEN, Associated Press. Fri May 27, 11:43 am ET. HAVANA – Cuba announced new measures Friday to spur the island's push into private enterprise, instituting a moratorium on payroll taxes for small business owners and loosening limits on the size of private restaurants.Under the new guidelines, anyone who hires between one and five workers will not be subject to payroll taxes during 2011.The measure was adopted at a recent Cabinet meeting chaired by President Raul Castro and announced in Friday's issue of the Communist Party newspaper Granma. Read More

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Meow! Could Cuban blue become new cat breed ?

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Jeff Franks. Reuters. updated 5/26/2011 8:36:43 PM ET 2011-05-27T00:36:43. HAVANA — In a Havana apartment, four silvery gray cats race around the floor and tumble over the furniture playing with each other, occasionally jumping into the laps of their human visitors. Read More

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Cuba Announces Baseball Team for World Port Tournament in Rotterdam

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.27 - 14:44:08 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Cuba Announces Baseball Team for World Port Tournament in Rotterdam. HAVANA, CUBA.- The Cuban Baseball Federation announced the team that will represent the Caribbean nation at the upcoming 2011 World Port Tournament of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. The annual tournament, with the participation this year of Cuba, Germany, Chinese Taipei, Curaçao and the Netherlands, will be held at the Neptunus Family Stadium in Rotterdam, from June 23 to July 3. Read More

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Eslinda Nuñez: Winner of the 2011 National Cinema Prize

<p style="text-align: justify;">By AIN / radioangulo.icrt.cu / Friday, 27 May 2011 07:23. Cinema Prize for her outstanding interpretations in memorable movies, according to information provided by the vice-president of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), Pablo Pacheco.With this selection, the jury acknowledged the work of an artist that has participated in over twenty films throughout her successful career, who will receive the prize during a gala in June. The jury was presided over by editor Nelson Rodriguez, winner of the 2007 National Cinema Prize, and was made up by directors Victor Casaus and Lester Hamlet; sound engineer Jose Galino; researcher and professor Mario Piedra; and Martha Diaz, Dean of the Faculty of Audiovisual Media of the Institute of Higher Arts. Read More

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Smoking causes 17% of annual deaths in Cuba: expert

<p style="text-align: justify;">English.news.cn&nbsp;&nbsp; 2011-05-27 12:39:03. HAVANA, May 26 (Xinhua) - Smoking causes 17 percent of annual deaths in Cuba besides heavy economic losses to the state, according to a local expert here Thursday. Alfredo Duenas, chief of Preventive Cardiology at the Institute of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, said that the "addiction takes away 10 years of remaining life of the smokers." Read More

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Chinese VP to visit Italy, Cuba, Uruguay, Chile

<p style="text-align: justify;">English.news.cn&nbsp;&nbsp; 2011-05-27 15:09:56. BEIJING, May 27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping will pay official visits to Italy, Cuba, Uruguay and Chile from June 1 to 13 and attend the ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of Italy's unification, Chinese Foreign Ministry announced Friday. Read More

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Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda concludes visit to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">15:29, May 27, 2011.Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Winston Baldwin Spencer, concluded here Thursday his four-day visit to Cuba. During a meeting with Cuban leader Raul Castro on Wednesday, both sides "expressed satisfaction of the current state of bilateral relations." Read More

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Cuban Province Launches Multimedia on Sustainable Agriculture

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.05.25 - 22:26:04 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Santa Clara, Cuba.- A Network of Promoters of Clean Agriculture launched, in the central Cuban province of Villa Clara, a multimedia with instructions for farmers on the harvest of vegetables, fruits, coffee and other agricultural products. A specialist from the Center on Environmental Studies and Services (CESAM), Laura Cristina Silveiro, explained that this multimedia comprises 1,500 articles for farmers and technicians as consultation materials aimed at achieving sustainable food production. Read More

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Cuban Docs Help Alleviate Diabetic Foot Patients in Algeria

<p style="text-align: justify;">Algiers, May 25 (Prensa Latina) Cuban health professionals have contributed to alleviate the suffering of patients with diabetic foot ulcer in several regions of Algeria, barely three months after starting a binational collaboration project, according to medical sources. Read More

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Raul Castro Holds Talks with President of Suriname

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Presidents of Cuba and Surinam held talks in Havana. Photo: Geovani FernandezCuban President Raul Castro held officials talks on Wednesday afternoon with the President of the Republic of Suriname, Desire Delano Bouterse, who is on an official visit to the island. Read More

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