Cuba's sweet obsession with sugar CANOE TRINIDAD, Cuba -- There's almost no aspect of Cuban life that hasn't been influenced in some way or other by sugar. The landscape is dotted with sugar-cane fields and old mills; rum, (made with molasses, a sugar by-product) is part of daily life; and ... |
To Cuba, with love: friends launch first kosher tour to hard-to-reach destination JNS.org It started with a mutual fascination with Cuba, especially its tiny Jewish community. Now two Jewish women, separated by a generation in age and more than 760 miles in physical location, have become best friends and have turned their love of Cuba into ... |
Cuba's sweet obsession with sugar Chatham Daily News The landscape is dotted with sugar-cane fields and old mills; rum, (made with molasses, a sugar by-product) is part of daily life; and one of island's musical styles -- Rumba -- is said to have originated with black slaves brought to Cuba to work in ... |
Cuba's sweet obsession with sugar Owen Sound Sun Times The landscape is dotted with sugar-cane fields and old mills; rum, (made with molasses, a sugar by-product) is part of daily life; and one of island's musical styles -- Rumba -- is said to have originated with black slaves brought to Cuba to work in ... |
Low Interest Credit Card and No Fee Bank Card Available to Venezuelan Youth Venezuelanalysis.com He said that over 5,000 people have already registered for the program through the ministry website, and that people with the card would be able to obtain discounts, “especially through institutes that are affiliated to the tourism ministry”. Card ... |
eDreams Expands to Offer Travel Services in Greece PR Web (press release) The new website provides Greek tourists with the full eDreams offering – flights with more than 100 airlines on 60,000 different routes and more than 240,000 hotels in 40,000 destinations worldwide, as well as vehicle rental companies with the most ... |
South America's Tallest Tower to Deepen Glut: Real Estate Bloomberg Billionaire Horst Paulmann began developing South America's tallest tower in 2006, when economic expansion fueled by copper demand pushed Santiago office rents to a six-year high. He's completing it as vacancies soar. The retail magnate's 62-floor ... |
Direct Cuba Airlift To Boost Bahamas As 'Multi-Nation' Hub Bahamas Tribune DIRECT airlift between the Bahamas and Cuba will significantly boost this nation's position as a regional “multi-destination” hub, and facilitate increased trade and commerce the two countries, a business executive said yesterday. Lindbergh Smith ... |
Benefits Provided by Tourism Industry in Mexico The Yucatan Times Mexico is showing steady growth within the general tourism sector and it is being notable for the economic benefits, it proffers in a country with advantages to build a stronger development of this industry. Data from the Federal Ministry of Tourism ... |
Push for trials of Cuban diabetes drug trial tests support for U.S. embargo Bradenton Herald It did not appear to hurt Obama's election chances, either, with Florida exit polls indicating he either narrowly lost or even won Florida's Cuban-American vote, once a reliable Republican bloc. The island's current dictator, Raúl Castro, has loosened ... |
Rails, ruins, rainforests await in Panama Desert Valley Times Motivated by the winds of freedom blowing from neighboring countries, Panama became independent from Spain in November 1821 and joined instead Gran Colombia, comprised of the countries of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador. Panama's desire to become a ... |
Vancouver Sun | Turtle-hatching season fascinates tourists on Mexico's Baja Peninsula Vancouver Sun LOS CABOS, Mexico - Far from the bikini-lined beaches and booze-fuelled bars of Cabo San Lucas, I lie elbow deep on the sand of some remote Mexican dunes waiting for the sun to near the horizon, a growing nursery of baby turtles squirming beside me. |
Washington Post | Cuba-Florida swimmer tackles NYC pool marathon kwwl.com Across America the government's work is piling up, and it's not just paperwork. It's old tires and red Solo cups littering a stretch of river in Nebraska. Food poisoning microbes awaiting analysis in...More >>. Across America the government's work is ... Nyad, who swum from Cuba to Fla., attempts 48-hour swim in NYC pool to ... |
Seattle Sounders' Alonso still waiting for Cuba to give him USA clearance Tribalfootball.com Osvaldo Alonso is still patiently waiting for the Football Association of Cuba to allow him the opportunity to gain USA selection. The 27-year old Seattle Sounders midfielder defected from Cuba to the United States in 2007 but has not yet been given ... |
Did Obama swap 'black' detention sites for ships? Sacramento Bee With the black sites closed and Obama refusing to send more people to the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, it wasn't obvious where the U.S. would hold people for interrogation. And that's where the warships came in. On Saturday, the ... |
Kincaid: WikiLeaks Founder Embraces Castro's Cuba GOPUSA Julian Assange is bracing for a new film, The Fifth Estate, which raises the question of whether the founder of WikiLeaks is a “hero” or “traitor.” But the film, scheduled for release on October 18, has been overtaken by events. Assange, supposedly an ... |
Christian Science Monitor | Mexico swoons and Brazil rallies in response to US shutdown Christian Science Monitor Other Latin American nations that primarily export to the US include Venezuela (39.3 percent), Colombia (39.4 percent), and the Dominican Republic (46.1 percent), according to the CIA World Factbook. Countries less reliant on the ... A case in point ... |
eDreams Expands to Greece EIN News (press release) "The mobile channel has opened up a whole new world of possibilities for the tourism industry, of which companies need to take advantage if they want to be competitive in the sector", stressed the company's co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer ... |
Times of Oman | Cuban merchants defy ban on sale of imported clothes Times of Oman Havana: Privately-owned small retailers in communist Cuba are defying a government order to stop selling imported clothing or face stiff fines. Imported clothing is in high demand in Cuba because foreign apparel is cheaper and of higher quality than ... |
Ventureburn | Rocket Internet Launches Real-Estate Listings Site Lamudi In Asia, Africa And ... TechCrunch Rocket Internet has consolidated several of its real estate services under one brand called Lamudi, a real estate classifieds platform that officially began operating today in twelve countries within Asia, Africa and Latin America. In a statement ... Lamudi is a Real Estate Platform for Emerging Markets Rocket Internet's Lamudi launches real estate site for emerging markets Rocket Internet rebrands real estate portal for global roll-out |
There may now be more billionaires in Africa than in Latin America Quartz But if Africa indeed has 55 billionaires, it may have surpassed Latin America, which has 51 of them, according to Forbes. (The figures aren't directly comparable—Venture doesn't list billionaires in Latin America—but Forbes' count for Latin America ... |
eDreams Expands to Greece PR Newswire UK (press release) The new website provides Greek tourists with the full eDreams offering - flights with more than 100 airlines on 60,000 different routes and more than 240,000 hotels in 40,000 destinations worldwide, as well as vehicle rental companies with the most ... |
Good Food | a match made in Havana Good Food Cuba was starting to cater to tourists as a way of coping with the economic shock of the "Special Period", caused by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the loss of a captive market for Cuban sugar exports. Overnight in 1991, life in Cuba changed: no ... |
