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  • Nicaraguan Businessmen for Strengthening Trade with Cuba

    Managua, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Nicaraguan businessmen are discussing with optimism possibilities of strengthening trade with Cuba, following an agreement between Nicaraguan Chamber of Industries (Cadin), and the Chamber of Trade of that Caribbean country, said a business expert today. According to Doctor Oscar Aleman, who took part in different private ...

  • Haiti is The Great Business of NGOs Cuban Experts Said

    Havana, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Haiti is a business for non-governmental organizations (NGOs), whose interference is greater than their help, Cuban specialists in Caribbean themes denounced today. Gloria Leon, a professor at the University of Havana, revealed the background of interference of many organizations that feed on Haitian poverty and exacerbate it in their own interests. In the panel ...

  • AES supplies energy at Central America and the Caribbean’s most competitive prices

    Santo Domingo.- The consolidated portfolio of energy generators that the power company AES manages offer the most competitive electricity prices in the local market as well as the Central America and Caribbean region. This was revealed by Marco De la Rosa, during breakfast the Energy Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAMDR), explaining that "AES sells a kilowatt hour of ...

  • Royal Caribbean Vote Pits Chairman Against Largest Holder

    Royal Caribbean Ltd. (RCL) 's largest investor is challenging Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fain by supporting a plan that could lead to a board shakeup at the second-largest cruise operator. Investors vote tomorrow on a non-binding shareholder proposal calling for the elimination of staggered directors' terms at Miami-based Royal Caribbean. The company opposes ...

  • U.S. Envoy in Cuba Engages Critics On and Offline

    Since arriving at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana nine months ago, Conrad Tribble has become perhaps its tweeter-in-chief, while reaching out to some of Washington's most vocal ...

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Unbreakable [Blu-Ray]

Unbreakable [Blu-Ray]

There was no way for M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable to avoid comparisons to his previous film, The Sixth Sense, which surprised everyone in the summer of 1999 by becoming the 10th highest all-time domestic box-office earner and garnering six Academy Award nominations, inc ... ...

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  • US Executive Recognizes Cuba as an Important Fishing Destination

    Havana, May 21(Prensa Latina) The president of the International Game Fish Association (IGFA), American Rob Kramer, today admitted that Cuba is very important for his organization due to its history and natural conditions. Kramer is attending the 63rd International Billfishing Tournament Ernest Hemingway that is being held until May 25 at the marina facility which carries the name of the famous ...

  • U.S. Researchers Participate in Colloquium About Hemingway in Cuba

    Havana, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Researchers from the work of writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) from the United States, Canada and Japan participate here on an international symposium dedicated to the Nobel Prize for Literature winner, June from 20 to 23. Organized by the Museum House Finca La Vigia, where Hemingway lived nearly two decades, the event will be also attended by specialists from ...

  • Cuba lifts import ban on domestic appliances

    Cuba has authorised individual imports of appliances such as air conditioners, refrigerators and microwave ovens, lifting a ban imposed in 2005 amid a wave of energy shortages and blackouts.Islanders can now bring up to two such appliances per person into the country for noncommercial purposes. The list of approved items includes air conditioners with a capacity of less than one ton, ovens that ...

  • US envoy in Cuba engages critics on and offline

    HAVANA (AP) — A U.S. diplomat has become a sort of tweeter-in-chief for the U.S. mission in Cuba, reaching out to some of Washington's most vocal critics on the island.The U.S. Interests Section has long cultivated ties to dissident bloggers and tweeters. But the mission's deputy chief Conrad Tribble has been reaching out to the communist Twitteratti as well.That has prompted ...

  • Xi to visit Latin America and the Caribbean

    Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay state visits to Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica and Mexico from May 31 to June 6, the foreign ministry announced on Tuesday.Hong Lei, foreign ministry spokesperson, told a press briefing on Tuesday that they will be the first state visits to Latin America and the Caribbean by Xi.Hong said Xi's visit to Trinidad and Tobago will be the first visit to an ...

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