AirTransportNews.aero (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
WestJet today announced the launch of new, seasonal non-stop service between Toronto and Holguin, Cuba. The inaugural flight departs Toronto's Pearson International Airport at 11:45 a.m. ET...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
HOLGUIN, Cuba (Reuters) - More belt-tightening may lie head for Cuba as President Raul Castro said on Sunday the government will look at making its second "adjustment to expenditures" this year due to the effects of the global financial crisis.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
Holguin, Cuba - Cubans were warned Sunday that the continuing economic crisis will mean further financial squeezes across the island. Speaking before a crowd of 200,000 at a national commemoration ceremony, President Raul Castro said exports have dro...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
HOLGUIN, Cuba -- Cuba's economy has been hammered by the global credit crisis, U.S. relations have not improved much under President Barack Obama and economic reforms that were supposed to ease life on the island have been slow to come.
Cuba Journal (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
Cuba and Australia play tonight at 10 p.m. Eastern Time at the 2009 World Baseball Classic. Cuban manager Higinio Velez has announced that left hander Aroldis Chapman, who plays for the Holguin team in Cuba's 48th National Baseball Series, will be the starter for the criollos . Aroldis has six wins and one loss this year in the first half of the 48th series. He leads Cuban pitchers with 89 K's and...
Cuba Journal (Free subscription) | 02/26/2009
Ahora.cu By Alexis Rojas Aguilera / Friday, 06 February 2009 / redaccion@ahora.cu A new brand of sweet red wine with the name “El Guayabero” distinguished the major products of the food industry in the eastern province of Holguin. The name to this new type of wine is a tribute to the late Don Faustino Oramas, a Holguin musician and composer, king of the double sense songs, who died on...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 02/04/2009
Havana - Cuba has declared the birthplace of brothers Fidel and Raul Castro a national monument, state media reported. The rural home of the Castros near the village of Biran in Holguin province in south-eastern Cuba was given the distinction becau...
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