TOURISM-CUBA: Economy’s Most Dynamic Sector Offers Something New

Cuba is adding a twist to local tourism in an attempt to establish the industry as the driving force behind its economy, even while the United States-imposed trade blockade discourages greater foreign investment on the island and inhibits the flow of tourist dollars.

/CORRECTED REPEAT/ TOURISM-CUBA: Economy’s Most Dynamic Sector Offers Something New

Cuba is adding a twist to local tourism in an attempt to establish the industry as the driving force behind its economy, even while the United States-imposed trade blockade discourages greater foreign investment on the island and inhibits the flow of tourist dollars.

COMMODITIES-CUBA: Nickel Industry in Full Recovery

Cuba's nickel industry is enjoying a sustained recovery after suffering a sharp decline in the early 1990s, and now turns healthy profits for the Canadian companies that are the principal investors in the sector here.

TRADE: Human Rights Issue Thwarts Cuban Admission to EU-ACP Deal

Cuba withdrew its request for admission to an agreement through which the European Union (EU) provides preferential treatment to a large group of developing countries after several members of the European bloc voted in favour of a United Nations resolution condemning Havana for alleged human rights abuses.

LABOUR-CUBA: A May 1st with Protests, Not Parades

This May first, International Labour Day, the Cuban government is organising popular demonstrations to demand that the United States return the shipwrecked boy Elián González and to protest the recent United Nations (UN) condemnation of the island's human rights situation.

CUBA-US: Agreement on Elian Case Feeds Hopes for Easing Embargo

The agreement between Washington and Havana that Cuban shipwreck boy Elián González belongs with his father has fed the hopes of a growing US movement in favour of loosening or lifting the nearly four-decades-old economic embargo against Cuba.

CUBA-US: Truce for a Day

The reunion of Cuban shipwreck boy Elián González with his father in Washington led to a day of "truce" in 41 years of tension between Cuba and the United States.

DEVELOPMENT: South Summit Agrees to Revive North-South Dialogue/repeating to some points/

The Group of 77 (G-77) coalition of developing countries hopes that the final declaration and action plan agreed at its first summit will give a new boost to the North- South dialogue.

DEVELOPMENT: Oil, a Hot Issue at South Summit

The presence of delegations from the members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) at this week's South Summit of Third World nations in Havana, and the still oil high prices, have made the question of oil a focus of the gathering.

DEVELOPMENT: Oil, a Hot Issue at South Summit

The presence of delegations from the members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) at this week's South Summit of Third World nations in Havana, and the still oil high prices, have made the question of oil a focus of the gathering.

DEVELOPMENT: IMF Should Disappear, Castro Tells South Summit

Cuban President Fidel Castro Wednesday told dozens of heads of state and government meeting in Havana that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) should disappear and be replaced by a multilateral entity offering the global economy true stability.

DEVELOPMENT: G-77 Summit Stresses South-South Cooperation

Cooperation between countries of the developing South and the possible creation of a permanent secretariat to ensure compliance with agreements are the main practical results that could emerge from the first Group of 77 (G- 77) summit of developing nations, in the Cuban capital.

DEVELOPMENT: G-77 Summit Stresses South-South Cooperation

Cooperation between countries of the developing South and the possible creation of a permanent secretariat to ensure compliance with agreements are the main practical results that could emerge from the first Group of 77 (G- 77) summit of developing nations, in the Cuban capital.

DEVELOPMENT-SOUTH: G-77 Meets in Cuba to Create Unity, Answers

The summit of heads of state representing the Group of 77 (G-77) next week in the Cuban capital must make unity a priority if they are to meet the challenge of finding solutions for the developing South's array of urgent problems.

POLITICS-CUBA/US: Elian’s Father Awaits His Son in Washington DC

It is only a question of time for Juan Miguel González, father of the shipwrecked Cuban boy, who arrived in the US capital Thursday to claim custody of his child who has lived with relatives in Miami for more the last 137 days.

DEVELOPMENT: G-77 Summit to Push More South-South Collaboration

Co-operation among developing nations is a major point on the agenda for the upcoming Group of 77 (G-77) Summit, and has the best chance of bearing fruit for the 133 countries that make up the organisation.

EDUCATION-CUBA: Male Enrollment Figures Challenge Gender Equity //REPEATING//

The educational challenge in Cuba is no longer increasing enrollment of females, who outnumber and outperform males in school, but ensuring gender equity.

POLITICS-CUBA: Cautious Reaction to Latest Ruling on Elian

A United States federal court judge's dismissal Tuesday of a petition for an asylum hearing for Elián González filed by his relatives in Miami overcame one more legal hurdle standing in the way of the six-year-old shipwreck survivor's return to Cuba.

DEVELOPMENT: Final Stretch of Preparations for G-77 Summit

Preparations in Cuba for the meeting of heads of state and government of the 133-member Group of 77 (G-77) representing the developing world are reaching the final stretch this week, with a business meeting to be attended by delegates from some 30 nations from the developing South.

DEVELOPMENT-CUBA: Special Programmes to Assist the Poor

Small family restaurants in Cuba subsidised by the State provide nutritious, low-cost meals to low-income elderly with no family support, the disabled, unemployed single pregnant women and low-income single mothers.

AGRICULTURE-CUBA: From Garden to Table, in the Middle of the City

Urban farming is gaining ground in Cuban cities as a major source of fresh produce, in response to food shortages arising from the crisis that has had this Caribbean island nation in its grip since the start of the 1990s.