Election of Delegates to Congress of Cuba’s Communist Party Concluded

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.03.11 - 14:02:57 / radiorebelde.HAVANA, CUBA.- The one thousand delegates that will participate in the upcoming Sixth Congress of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC), scheduled for April, have already been elected, Granma newspaper reported on Friday.The election process —which included PCC members working abroad in cooperation programs— ended with meetings of the general secretaries of local PCC organizations in the municipalities, districts and similar bodies of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Interior Ministry. Read More

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Cuba 'to release' key dissident, 9 others

<p style="text-align: justify;">(AFP) – HAVANA — The Cuban government has agreed to release a prominent political dissident and free another nine prisoners jailed for violent crimes, the Catholic Church said.Oscar Elias Biscet was arrested during an internationally criticized roundup of regime opponents in 2003. Read More

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Benicio del Toro filming in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">THE Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro is in Cuba to direct the filming of one story within Siete días en La Habana, (Seven Days in Havana) a collaborative work with six other filmmakers.The film will be comprised of seven stories, about 15 minutes each, one for each day of the week, narrating events of daily life in contemporary Cuba, maintaining stylistic unity, in a project similar to the collective feature filmsParis, je t'aime and New York, I Love You.Del Toro, who won a best actor prize at the Cannes Festival and a Goya in Spain, for his role in the films The Argentine and Guerrilla, also by Soderbergh, in which he portrays Ernesto Che Guevara, was awarded the Union of Cuban Writers and Artists' 2009 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea International Prize for Cinema. Read More

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Cuba mulls additional energy-saving measures

<p style="text-align: justify;">Published March 10, 2011.EFE. Havana –&nbsp; A top Cuban oil official said the island may enact additional energy-saving measures to offset a spike in international crude prices.In remarks Wednesday night on state television, an executive with state oil company Cuba Petroleo, Rafael Tenreyro, said high oil prices provide "an additional incentive" for bolstering existing energy-conservation measures, without providing specifics. Read More

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Flights to Cuba; Exxon on oil; Toyota's vision

<p style="text-align: justify;">Updated: 03/10/2011 11:04:51 AM EST. AIRPORTS APPROVED. Flights to Cuba. Eight airports including Baltimore and Pittsburgh have gained federal approval to schedule charter flights to and from Cuba, opening new gateways for Cuban Americans to visit relatives in the island nation and for other limited travel, authorities announced Tuesday. Read More

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Petrobras has relinquished Cuba oil block- official

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, March 10 (Reuters) - Brazilian oil giant Petrobras (PETR4.SA) has withdrawn from an offshore oil exploration block in Cuba's waters that it leased amid great fanfare in 2008, a Brazilian official said Thursday, citing poor prospects.Marco Aurelio Garcia, foreign policy adviser to President Dilma Rousseff, told reporters exploratory work off Cuba's northern coast did not "give results." Read More

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Cuba may not get traffic flood as gateways opened

<p style="text-align: justify;">Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. While the curiosity may be high as new charter services are now allowed between eight US airports and Cuba, it is unlikely that the liberalisation of 50-year-old travel restrictions will release a flood of traffic, according to Boyd Group International President Mike Boyd, whose organisation just issued a study to that effect.The report also suggested that there is not a lot of appetite for tourist/beach traffic potential and, in fact, will be much less than expected. Read More

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Brazilian presidential advisor visits Raúl

<p style="text-align: justify;">Raúl Castro welcomed Marco Aurelio García for a work visit in Havana Wednesday, according to Granma. Castro talked with García, special advisor of international affairs for Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, about the “excellent state of relations between Cuba and Brazil, particularly the development and perspectives of economic and trade links,” the Communist Party newspaper said. Read More

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Flights to Cuba from Fort Lauderdale approved by U.S.

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Juan Carlos CHavez. The U.S. government on Thursday said it will allow regular commercial flights to Havana from Fort Lauderdale- Hollywood International Airport — all part of the ongoing easing of travel restrictions to the island by the Obama administration.It’s unclear which carrier will offer the flights, but the Broward County airport now has permission to schedule them.In recent years, only charter flights from Miami to the island have been allowed.The approval of the new flights does not change existing restrictions which prohibit U.S. tourists travel to Cuba. Read More

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Pernod Ricard’s fresh washroom approach

<p style="text-align: justify;">Long-standing TLC client, Pernod Ricard, is keeping its communication strategy fresh by constantly updating the brands it advertises on the Unlimited subsidiary’s washroom advertising platform. Next to take centre stage on TLC’s Mirror Media in Style and Sports Bars across the country is Pernod’s Havanna Club. Targeting men and women in the LSM 7 – 10 category, aged 18 – 40, for a two month burst Pernod will rally awareness around its rum brand Havana Club, aiming to drive home the positioning that Havana Club is a classic, stylish drink. Read More

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