Tag: Cuba

• 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.

• Thursday, September 23rd 2010 - 00:22 UTC

  Cuba props foreign investment projects and fires basic industry minister

  

  President Raul Castro sacked his energy and resources minister, the last remaining minister from his brother Fidel cabinet. Minister for basic industry, Yadira Garcia, was fired late Sunday for “shortcomings,” specifically exerting “weak control over resources set aside for investment and production,” an official declaration read on state television said.

• Tuesday, September 14th 2010 - 00:46 UTC

  Cuba with unions support announces elimination of 500.000 jobs to boost economy

  

  The Cuban government will cut more than 500,000 state jobs by March as part of a plan to reduce inefficiencies, the country’s largest union said in a statement. The reductions are part of President Raúl Castro’s goal of eliminating 1 million state jobs by 2015, according to the statement.

• Saturday, September 11th 2010 - 17:47 UTC

  Fidel Castro’s “no but yes”: comments on Cuban model were “misinterpreted”

  

  Fidel Castro said his recent comment that communist-led Cuba's economic model does not work was misunderstood, and that what he really meant was capitalism does not work.

• Wednesday, September 8th 2010 - 23:32 UTC

  “The Cuban model doesn’t ever work for us anymore”, admits Fidel Castro

  

  “The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore”, admitted Fidel Castro to Jeffrey Goldberg, a writer for the Atlantic Monthly magazine who interviewed the leader and asked if Cuba's model -- Soviet-style communism -- was still worth exporting to other countries.

• Monday, September 6th 2010 - 04:33 UTC

  Cuban blogger joints the list of World Press Freedom Heroes

  

  Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez said this weekend that she feels “very responsible” following the International Press Institute’s decision to choose her as one of its 60 World Press Freedom Heroes.

• Saturday, September 4th 2010 - 05:33 UTC

  Fidel returns to talk where he first stirred fellow students 60 years ago

  

  Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, wearing his green military cap and clothing like the commandant of old, made his first speech before the Cuban public since falling ill in 2006, warning of the threat of nuclear war.

• Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 01:49 UTC

  Fidel admits ‘full responsibility’ for the ‘unjust’ persecution of gays and lesbians

  

  Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro acknowledges the persecution of gays and lesbians during the Revolution, according to an interview published Tuesday in the Mexican newspaper La Jornada.

• Monday, August 30th 2010 - 19:20 UTC

  US has “permanent military bases” in Guantanamo and Falklands, says Castro

  

  United States has permanent military bases in Guantamano (Cuba) and the Falkland Islands, but it is prepared and capable of setting up troops anywhere else in Latin America in “a matter of hours” said the ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro quoted by the official press.

• Friday, August 27th 2010 - 08:13 UTC

  Cuba promotes luxury golf courses by giving state-land for 99 years

  

  The cash-strapped Cuban government will allow foreign investors to use state-owned land for up to 99 years in a change that is likely to bring developments of luxury golf courses to the communist island.