Top Cuban economist pessimistic on island’s prospects
December 8, 2014
WASHINGTON — One of Cuba’s top experts on international finance was decidedly pessimistic when discussing the island’s economic prospects at a recent conference in Washington.
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Report: Fiscal lessons Cuba could learn from Costa Rica
December 2, 2014
WASHINGTON — Cuba, whose halting reforms have failed to energize the island’s stagnant, centralized economy, may have a thing or two to learn from Costa Rica — which over the last 30 years has made enormous strides in slashing poverty, promoting trade and luring foreign direct investment.
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Urban planner offers tough talk on Cuba’s economic prospects
November 10, 2014
When Miguel Coyula discusses Cuba’s struggling economy, he sounds more like a Miami-based critic of the Castro regime than a retired Cuban official visiting the United States on a lecture tour, then going back home to Havana.
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Survey: Most Americans now back Cuba policy change
March 7, 2014
WASHINGTON — Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) is as liberal on the political spectrum as his Republican colleague from Arizona, Sen. Jeff Flake, is conservative. But there’s one issue both lawmakers readily agree on: it’s time to relax U.S. policy on Cuba.
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Despite thawing of bilateral relations, Cuba still off-limits to most American tourists
February 11, 2014
Will 2014 be the year Washington finally takes Cuba off the State Department list of “terrorist-supporting states” which also includes Iran, Sudan and Syria?
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Caribbean has high hopes for tourism recovery in ’14
February 3, 2014
The Caribbean will enjoy steady growth in its all-important tourism sector as the U.S. economy continues its recovery, but serious issues — ranging from violent crime in some destinations like the Bahamas and Trinidad to the widely despised U.K. air passenger duty — could prevent the region from realizing its full potential in 2014.
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Experts discuss Cuba’s emerging entrepreneurial class
November 26, 2013
Up to 40 percent of Cuba’s labor force is already working in the private sector, making the country a largely middle-class society and discrediting the notion that Fidel and Raúl Castro must die before real economic change can occur on the island.
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Cuba impresses Puerto Rican execs on trade mission
October 21, 2013
Surprises abounded this fall when the 1,300-member Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association sponsored its first official mission to Cuba to learn about potential business opportunities there.
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Practical Techie: Tech in Cuba ‘ready to go supernova’
September 24, 2013
No one knows when or how it will happen, but it when it does, U.S.-based companies that do tech commerce in the Caribbean will be ready.
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Puerto Rico Manufacturers Assoc. to host forum on Cuba
July 30, 2013
The Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association will be hosting a forum to discuss business opportunities in Cuba on Aug. 2, in anticipation of an educational mission to the Caribbean island nation, trade group President Waleska Rivera announced.
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Cuba hopes for U.S. travel boom, as charter flights remain grounded
April 8, 2013
A record 2.84 million tourists visited Cuba last year, up 4.5 percent from 2011 figures (by comparison, only 326,000 tourists came to Cuba in 1989). More than one million of them came from Canada, with large numbers also visiting from the United States — mainly Cuban-American exiles and those on specially licensed humanitarian or people-to-people excursions. Other important sources of tourism to Cuba are Latin America, Russia and, increasingly, China.
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P.R.-Cuba flights grounded after 3 months may resume this summer
May 15, 2012
Last year, California-based Cuba Travel Services launched, with great fanfare, the first direct charter flights between Puerto Rico and Cuba since the 1959 revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power.
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Caribbean tourism ministers welcome, not fear, end to Cuba travel restrictions
May 7, 2012
For years, the conventional wisdom was that an eventual end to the U.S. embargo against Cuba would open the floodgates for millions of curious Americans dying to visit the once-forbidden island — while the rest of the Caribbean would, at least initially, suffer a sharp downturn in U.S. tourist arrivals.
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Ponce Catholic Univ. to host Cuba conference
April 2, 2012
The Cuban government’s recent economic reforms and the growth and development opportunities they represent for the island's future will be the topic of a conference to be hosted by the Pontifical Catholic University in Ponce, entitled “Cuba Today and Tomorrow: Economic Conditions and Trends.”
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Cuba Travel Services to launch LMM-Havana charter flights
August 5, 2011
Air travel between the United States and Cuba is about to get a bit more crowded with the announcement Thursday by Cuba Travel Services Inc. that it has received landing permission by the government of the island-nation to begin flights from San Juan, Ft. Lauderdale and Houston.
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