After 7 Year Haitus, People to People Cuba Resumes Exchange Program With U.S.

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Molly Corum | August 12, 2011 12:58 PM EDT.Desmond Boylan / Reuters. The first Cuba-bound "People-to-People" trips since 2003 flew out of Miami, Florida Thursday, August 11. The inaugural tours are booked through Insight Cuba, which operated people-to-people exchanges in Cuba from 2000 to 2003, when the Bush administration banned almost all American civilian travel to the country as a way of shoring up the U.S. embargo. Cuba has been off-limits to the everyday American for decades because of a trade embargo that doesn't allow U.S. citizens without family members on the island to spend money in Cuba. Read More

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Cuba’s Largest Crocodile Reserve Benefits from Int’l Project society

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.08.12 - 13:45:36 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Cuba’s Largest Crocodile Reserve Benefits from Int’l ProjectLAS TUNAS, Cuba.-&nbsp; Monte Cabaniguan, the largest reservoir of American crocodiles in Cuba benefits from the Archipielago Sur international project which has allowed an increase in actions for the preservation of native species in the area. Sponsored by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment and the U.N.’s Development Program, the project makes emphasis on preservation actions in coastal ecosystems by means of training workshops and studies on threatened species. Read More

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For Cuba's new entrepreneurs, the tax man cometh

<p style="text-align: justify;">By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ , 08.12.11, 01:35 PM EDT. Associated Press. HAVANA -- In Cuba, the tax man has finally arrived. After five decades under Fidel and Raul Castro, the concept of a personal tax is practically unknown in a society where the government controls nearly the entire economy and salaries average about $20 a month. Quite the opposite, islanders have grown accustomed to the Communist government providing for them: food rations, universal education and health care, pensions, even free lunches. Read More

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