New bill to boost foreign property investment in Cuba Global Property Guide According to the bill, the foreigners will be allowed to buy residential properties and real estate meant for housing, offices and tourism development in Cuba. Apart from real estate, foreigners will be able to invest in all other sectors excluding ... Cuba updates investment portfolio to attract foreign capital |
Jaco Canopy Tour, Where Ziplining, Jungle and Beach Collide in Costa Rica The Costa Rica Star ... from San Diego, currently residing in Costa Rica. Her first career of 10 years was spent serving San Diego & Kansas City as a paramedic. Shannon has visited 29 countries by the age of 32. In addition to writing, Shannon owns Enete Enterprises, LLC ... |
America's tricks don't help Cubans Washington Post If anyone else is stuck in the past, it's the U.S. government, which, after more than 50 years, has not learned that travel restrictions and boycotts are not going to undermine the Cuban government. Isolating the Cuban people from the free flow of ... |
Willamette Week | Hotseat: Julia Cooke, The Other Side of Paradise Willamette Week Cuba is the great unknown in America's backyard, embargoed from both trade and direct travel. But during visits between 2008 and 2013, Portland-raised writer Julia Cooke talked to Havana's prostitutes, party kids, artists and mothers and observed the ... |
Havana Times | My Normal Day in Cuba Havana Times I don't have many prospects for the future, however – no travel plans. I am stuck here, feeling the occasional spark that makes life easier, and which are never quite enough. What's your opinion? Carson. A wonderful article – I always return to Cuba as ... |
PM: The Role of The Bahamas in Caricom: My perspective on Where We are ... thebahamasweekly.com Moving now to a wider canvas, throughout the years, I have worked with Caribbean leaders as a Minister of the Bahamian government on a range of issues relating to health, sports, culture and tourism. As Prime Minister, I have .... But as in so many ... |
Bank of America to cut 3000 support jobs across Latin America, Asia Reuters (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) said on Wednesday that it will close three foreign offices and eliminate about 3,000 jobs over the next nine to 12 months in an effort to simplify its global operations. Offices that provide technological and ... |
Cuban Twitter a New Hurdle for Bloggers, Exiles Top Tech News 1 speech in which President Raul Castro warned of "attempts to subtly introduce platforms for neoliberal thought and for the restoration of neocolonial capitalism." "Castro's denunciations of the U.S. government's destabilizing attempts against Cuba ... |
Customs to hire 2000 officers across US Travel Weekly Chris Thompson, CEO of Brand USA, which markets the U.S. to international visitors, called the new hires "welcome news," noting that it dovetails with the travel and tourism industry's efforts to alleviate pressure points in the entry process that can ... |
The Santiago Times | Latin American regatta reaches historic seaport of ValparaÃso The Santiago Times Having already passed through Talcahuano in Chile's BiobÃo Region, they will sail the bay of ValparaÃso and Viña del Mar, and continue their journey towards their final destination in Veracruz, Mexico. “We set sail in Venezuela on Jan. 4, then we met ... |
Rep. Byrne working to take red snapper management away from feds and give it ... al.com An 11-day Red Snapper season will be devastating to our local fishermen and the communities dependent on this important industry for tourism and economic activity," he said. "This move ... To begin complying with a federal judge's ruling to implement ... |
StarPhoenix | Number of US travellers to Cuba continues to rise, second only to Canada StarPhoenix In this July 8, 2013 file photo, fishermen cast their lines along the Malecon in Havana, Cuba. The number of U.S. visitors to Cuba continues to rise, even as the more than five-decade long embargo remains firmly in place, according to study released ... More And More Americans Are Traveling To Cuba This Year Number Of US Visitors To Cuba Continues Rise Study: Number of US travelers to Cuba continues to rise, second only to Canada |
PM: The Role Of The Bahamas In Caricom: My perspective on Where We are ... thebahamasweekly.com Moving now to a wider canvas, throughout the years, I have worked with Caribbean leaders as a Minister of the Bahamian government on a range of issues relating to health, sports, culture and tourism. As Prime Minister, I have encouraged .... The same ... |
The Santiago Times | Latin American regatta reaches historic seaport of ValparaÃso The Santiago Times ... Colombia's Gloria, the Venezuelan vessel “Simón BolÃvar” and Chile's “Esmeralda” are all open for the public to visit. “Not only is this a manifestation of the commitment of these navies to their nations, but also a value added to the tourism of ... |
Jewish Daily Forward | Alan Gross hunger strike worries Cuba MiamiHerald.com The Cuban government is “concerned” about the hunger strike declared by Alan Gross, a U.S. government subcontractor jailed in Havana for four years, and is willing to swap him for three Cuban spies in U.S. prisons, a senior official said Wednesday. Cuba probes mobile data leak in ZunZuneo case Alan Gross Gets 'Dignified' Treatment on Hunger Strike, Cuba Says The US Created a Social Network in Cuba to Seed Dissent |
Despite Tighter External Conditions, Latin America and the Caribbean Hold Steady World Bank Group Still, the impact of this reversal in capital flows is less significant for Latin America and the Caribbean thanks to its new reliance on more stable international flows. According to the latest semiannual report by the World Bank's Office of the Chief ... |
ProCon.org | Cuba probes mobile data leak in ZunZuneo case Sacramento Bee ... and mobile telephone service, as well as Internet service. Cellphone use has risen sharply since President Raul Castro ended restrictions in 2007, from around 400,000 active accounts back then to 1.8 million today, according to government statistics. Cuban Twitter a New Hurdle for Bloggers, Exiles |
Taxpayer investment in coastal restoration creates jobs, long-term return ... al.com (blog) Sunset over the Gulf of Mexico in Panama City Beach, Florida on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. (Dennis Pillion ... Additionally, each taxpayer dollar spent restoring wetlands returns more than $15 in net benefits including buffering storm surges ... |
One woman's big dream to reinvent the Divine Lorraine—and Philly's art scene PW-Philadelphia Weekly Kunkle has been working on her plan to remake Philadelphia's tourist and art scene for two years. It's been part of an ongoing open-table discussion at her Philadelphia Salon, a get-together she holds at her .... She applied for a Fulbright scholarship ... |
Invasive Stink Bugs Spreading Across Ontario Huffington Post Canada ... In Mexico. Two fishermen in northeastern Mexico claim they netted a dead great white shark estimated to be near 20-feet-long on April 15, 2012. .... Many are used in the tourism sector at special elephant parks or zoos, where they perform in shows ... |
Secret 'Cuban Twitter' outreach to Cuba scorned, praised Sun-Sentinel But Cuban-American Republicans from South Florida on Tuesday defended a shadowy Twitter-like communications network that U.S. officials operated for more than two years to secretly reach out to the Cuban people and undermine the Castro regime. |
What Are The Biggest Threats To Panama In 2014? The Panama Report Another factor that may negatively impact Panama's rampant growth is the souring relations with Venezuela and the free trade zone implications that come with a distancing of commercial relations between the two countries. Panama's free trade zone ... |
France-Cuba Relations in Good Moment, says Diplomat Cuba News Igarza expressed his country's interest in increasing foreign investment in several areas, including the Special Economic Zone in Mariel Harbor and in encouraging tourism. He recalled that some 96 thousand 600 French vacationers came to Cuba in the ... French foreign minister to visit Cuba this weekend |
Obama with Arguments to Change Policy Towards Cuba Prensa Latina The article refers to the stratagy of Washington's policy on Havana and the participation of US contractor Alan Gross in a subversive program of the US Agency for International Development (Usaid) against Cuba. Alan Gross is described in the AP article ... |
