San Juan, February 6 (RHC) -- The Jamaican government said Thursday that the expected end of the 53-year-old U.S. economic blockade against Cuba could translate into new business opportunities for Jamaica, the Latin American Herald Tribune reports.... More


Washington, February 6 (RHC) -– Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy has been selected to lead a delegation to Cuba in the wake of President Barack Obama's decision to ease travel and trade restrictions to the country.... More


Havana, February 6 (RHC) -– The Second Secretary of Cuba's Communist Party, Jose Ramon Machado, met on Thursday in Havana with the vice president of Jamaica´s People´s National Party (PNP), Angela Brown-Burke, who is paying a visit to the island.... More


Abuja, February 6 (RHC)-- Nigeria's National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has backed the introduction of Cuban homeopathic remedy for managing pain in cancer patients.... More


Havana, February 6 (RHC) –- St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman arrived in Havana on Wednesday alongside several dozen business and civic leaders from the U.S. for a five-day cultural exchange, Pioneer Press reported yesterday.... More


Havana, February 6 (RHC) -– A multimedia work entitled Fidel Castro, the 1959 Freedom Caravan was launched Thursday in Havana as a record of the island-wide tour of the Cuban leader upon the revolutionary triumph that defeated the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship.... More


Havana, February 6 (RHC) -– Cuba will attend the 35th International Tourism Fair of Milan to take place February 12-14 in the interest of further strengthening links between Cuban tourism and Italian collaborators.... More


Havana, February 6 (RHC) -– The Fifth International Seminar on Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies will convene in Havana in September, according to Dr. Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, scientific advisor to the Council of State.... More


Sports News Roundup February 06

Welterweight Arisnoydis Despaigne was presented among the five contenders of Cuba's 'Domadores' team to challenge China Dragons in the 5th World Boxing Series (WBS) at Havana's 'Coliseo de la Ciudad Deportiva' Friday night.... More


The multimedia Fidel Castro, 1959 Caravan of Liberty, made by the Cuban History Institute and Abdala Productions’ Unicorn Seal was presented in Revolution Square’s José Martí Memorial... More


Ecomomic Update February 05

The Ministry of Food Industry (MINAL) has this year all needed monies to ensure most of the raw materials, to meet the demands in all destinations, including tourism, said an official from the Ministry.... More


Madrid, February 5 (RHC)-- The results of a new opinion poll indicate that Spain’s anti-austerity party, Podemos, is getting more currency ahead of the 2015 elections. ... More


Caracas, February 5 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has rejected a recent U.S. report which predicts an outbreak of violent anti-government protests in the South American nation in 2015.... More


New York, February 5 (RHC)-- An intelligence and policy analyst in New York says Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News Channel is working as a media arm of the ISIL terrorist group. Malcolm Wrightson Nance, an African American career intelligence officer, combat veteran, author, scholar and media commentator, made the remarks in an interview with The Guardian on Wednesday after Fox News embedded on its website an extremely graphic 22-minute video showing a captured Jordanian pilot being burnt alive in a cage by ISIL. ... More


Mexico City, February 5 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Latin American nations have joined the international outcry against the killing of a Jordanian pilot at the hands of the Islamic State (IS) terrorists.... More


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