Tag: Cuba

• Monday, January 17th 2011 - 12:16 UTC

  Washington makes access to Cuba easier

  

  New guidelines announced Friday by Obama administration making travel and remittance to Cuba easier for US citizens.

• Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 23:14 UTC

  Cuba: Massive cruise liner docks in La Havanna to much fanfare

  

  A salsa band, dancing schoolchildren and showgirls in bikini tops and feather headdresses welcomed some 1,500 tourists on a British cruise liner that officials described as among the biggest ships to visit Cuba in years.

• Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 12:56 UTC

  Cuban trade unions “guarantors” of the elimination of 500.000 state jobs

  

  Layoffs planned to eliminate some 500,000 state jobs in Cuba this year got underway this week, according to the island’s only legal workers’ organization. The official weekly Trabajadores cited a speech by CTC chief Salvador Valdes in the eastern province of Holguin, in which he said it was the union’s responsibility to “be the guarantor” of the process of labour reorganization.

• Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 11:48 UTC

  Cuban reforms on the move: soap and toothpaste eliminated from monthly ration

  

  Cuba’s government, trying to save money and eliminate subsidies announced this week it will remove soap, toothpaste and detergent from the monthly ration of food and consumer products it has handed out since the early days of the Cuban revolution.

• Monday, December 20th 2010 - 05:45 UTC

  “Too much secrecy, too many lies” have taken the revolution to a critical situation

  

  In a dramatic speech to the National Assembly Cuba’s Raul Castro said he wasn’t elected to restore capitalism nor to surrender Socialism but admitted that “too much secrecy and too many lies” had taken the revolution to a critical situation: “either we rectify or we will plunge from the cliff and the efforts of entire generations would be lost”.

• Friday, December 3rd 2010 - 06:21 UTC

  Havana launches debate on neo-capitalism and “the future of the Cuban Nation”

  

  Cuba began this week a public debate over landmark plans to lift the island's struggling economy and “preserve the revolution’s victories” by liberalizing some private enterprise, admitting small farmers private property, streamlining the vast state bureaucracy by leaving redundant a half-million workers.

• Thursday, November 18th 2010 - 21:16 UTC

  Full blown campaign to garner support for Raúl’s Cuban model reforms

  

  The Cuban government has launched an aggressive campaign on its proposed economic reforms as it tries to whip up public opinion enthusiasm and in its own ranks ahead of a Communist Party congress to approve them in April.

• Wednesday, November 10th 2010 - 06:14 UTC

  Cuba prepares for the “orderly” elimination of ration cards effective since 1962

  

  The Cuban government is proposing the orderly elimination of the rations’ card according to a document prepared for the ruling party Communist Congress scheduled for April 2011.

• Wednesday, November 3rd 2010 - 00:26 UTC

  Accept reforms or “we will fall off the cliff” warns Raúl Castro

  

  Cuban President Raul Castro told unionists to accept layoffs and reforms that open the way for private enterprise as necessary for the survival of socialism.

• Sunday, October 24th 2010 - 02:12 UTC

  Cuba outlines taxes to be paid by the growing number of self-employed workers

  

  Cuban government has outlined the taxes that will have to be paid by the country's growing number of self-employed workers. It is the latest stage of President Raul Castro's reforms to move Cuba away from a solely state-run economy.