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Broadcasting live from the Taino studios in Havana, the first national American radio talk broadcast featured guests from the worlds of academia and journalism.
The live broadcast is part of Joe Madison’s trip for a weeklong documentary of highlights airing on SiriusXM Urban View.
The host of the program, civil rights activist Joe Madison, known as ‘The Black Eagle’, has been commissioned to lead this historic expedition, which will also take him to meet with government officials and visit various monuments of Cuba.
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Cuba and the European Union (EU) will hold a fourth round of talks starting Monday on normalizing bilateral ties, and paving the way for unrestricted trade and political cooperation.
Cuba is the only Latin American country with no bilateral agreement with the European bloc, though in recent years it has signed individual accords with over the half of EU members.
The president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, said Wednesday the EU is determined to reach its first bilateral agreement with Cuba.
“We are committed to concluding our negotiations on a political dialogue and cooperation agreement,” Tusk said during the inauguration in Brussels of a summit between the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the EU.
The European bloc is Cuba’s second-largest trade partner, with exchange amounting to 3.6 billion dollars in 2013, and is a leading foreign investor in the island, mainly in the tourism sector.
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The resort will allow foreigners to own beachfront property on the socialist island for the first time.
“This will be a very top-end development, with a boutique hotel of 100 rooms and some 1,000 residences for sale, from villas to condominiums,” said Desmond Taljaard, London & Regional managing director.
“If you are an investor focused on quarterly results and internal rates of return with immediate exits, Cuba might not be for you,” Mr Livingstone said. “But we are enthusiastic about Cuba, and committed. We are long-term investors. We build long-term relationships and we have patient capital.” The Financial Times
Trade Fair EXPOMATANZAS 2015, to be held at Plaza America Convention Centre, in Varadero beach, from 10th to 12th June.
The The organizing committee invites state-owned enterprises, foreign companies established in the country and the new forms of non-state management to take this occasion as an opportunity to show their products and services to provide logistical support to the national industry.
The event aims to create a business space to promote exports and replace imports.
The program includes presentations about foreign investment opportunities in Matanzas
The ambitious project led by a Chinese Communications Construction Company Limited (CCCC), with a valued at 120 million dollars and funded by a Chinese credit is expected to be completed in three years.
The project objective is to build a multi-functional dock with modern technology, capable of berthing vessels in dock over 231 meters, with three gantry cranes, two covered warehouses and open pit area for containers. It also includes a social infrastructure, a railway branch for cargo transfer.
The geographical location of the port, in south central eastern Cuba, makes it prime location for its proximity to major sea routes, which also is linked to domestic and international trade.
Santiago de Cuba has the Cuba’s second-largest port.
French shipping CMA CGM SA had signed an agreement with the Cuban company Almacenes Universales SA to build a logistics hub at the Cuban port of Mariel.
The CMA CGM leading worldwide shipping group, will help back the hub, for the warehousing of import and export goods, distribution of shipping containers and storage of both full and empty containers at the port.
With a young and diversified fleet of 445 vessels, the CMA CGM Group serves 400 of the world’s 521 commercial ports. Through its 170 shipping lines the company operates on every one of the world’s seas. Its global presence and powerful ships like the CMA CGM JULES VERNE enable the CMA CGM Group to transport a volume of 12.1 million TEUs (Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit) each year.