Frontier Airlines and Silver Airways are dropping air service to Cuba , saying other airlines are adding too many flights to the island nation and making the routes unprofitable. U.S. airlines rushed to begin flights to Cuba last year after the Obama administration allowed commercial service for the first time in more than half a century.
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Asylum case likely to set precedent for Cubans, following end to wet foot, dry foot policy
An elderly Cuban couple is expected to remain in detention while a judge who presided over their asylum hearing Friday makes a final determination on their fate. Aquilino Caraballo and Georgina HernA ndez, 67 and 64, have been held in separate facilities since they were taken into custody on Jan. 13 at Miami International Airport, a day after the former Obama administration announced an end to the immigration policy known as “wet foot, dry foot.”
Former Guantanamo detainee condemns Brit suicide bomber as smiling…
A former Guantanamo detainee has condemned British suicide bomber Jamal al-Harith who blew himself up after joining Islamic State. Shafiq Rasul, 39, was one of the so-called “Tipton Three” held at the Cuban detention centre until March 2004 – alongside terrorist Harith.
Fate of the Furious spot features street racing in Cuba, new details on Cipher
After visiting London, Tokyo, Rio and a couple of other major cities around the world, the next stop on the Fast and Furious crew’s list is Havana, Cuba. In a new international spot for the eighth movie in the franchise, The Fate of the Furious , the street racing seen in the streets of Malecon – a seaside, picturesque promenade in Havana – takes center stage.
Check out our starter motor! Cuban youths make pedal-powered Model T
It may be a rattle-heap but buying and running your first car marks a rite of passage for most teenagers, usually requiring a fill-up from the Bank of Mum and Dad, a friendly mechanic – and don’t mention the insurance. But high school pupils in Cuba, a country where few can contemplate, let alone afford, a car, decided to take banger-nomics to a new level and have built a replica of a Model T Ford – propelled with pedals instead of a petrol engine.
Cuban graffiti artist makes his mark in Havana
The whimsical designs of the graffiti artist with the signature Yulier P. began to appear randomly on walls around Havana three years ago. The first ones were large abstract renderings of rabbits, their floppy ears outlined in black against chipped concrete.
680 Cubans returned home since end of ‘wet foot, dry foot’
” About 680 Cubans have been returned to the island from various countries since then-President Barack Obama ended a longstanding immigration policy that allowed any Cuban who made it to U.S. soil to stay and become a legal resident, state television reported Friday. Cuba’s government had long sought the repeal of the “wet foot, dry foot” policy, which it said encouraged Cubans to risk dangerous voyages and drained the country of professionals.
Alleged 9/11 Plotter Blasts Obama in Letter From Guantanamo
In this Pentagon-approved sketch by court artist Janet Hamlin, self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad attends pretrial hearings in at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Monday, June 16, 2014.
Alleged 9/11 Plotter Blasts Obama in Letter From Guantanamo
In this Pentagon-approved sketch by court artist Janet Hamlin, self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad attends pretrial hearings in at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Monday, June 16, 2014.
CUBA: U.S. Airline Opens First Office In Havana
American Airlines has become the first U.S. carrier to open a service center in Havana, another step toward normalizing travel between Cuba and the United States-and a sign that U.S. businesses hope the new Trump administration will maintain positive relations with the Cuban government of RaAol Castro. The inauguration ceremony, including cutting a red ribbon, took place yesterday at a business center in the upscale, neighborhood of Miramar, Cuba, where other non-U.S. international carriers have long had ticket counters.
Cruise news for 2017: Alaska boom, more in-depth experiences
This June 26, 2014, file photo, shows a cruise ship docked in Juneau, Alaska, while a paraglider soars above. Alaska expects 1.06 million cruise passengers this year, breaking its 2008 record of 1.03 million visits.
Twitter account retells story of Jewish refugees turned away at US borders
It only took Russel Neiss about an hour and a half to create the automated Twitter account that brought to life Friday a decades-old tragedy — more than 250 tragedies, really — on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It began at 2:15 a.m. ET with this from the @Stl_Manifest account.
A bloody street fight erupts over Cuban vs. Guatemalan origin
Police are looking for the three suspects involved in a fight that resulted in one victim being airlifted to a Miami hospital. Monroe County Sheriff’s detectives say Luis Garcia-Barrera, 24, Ottoniel Garcia, 20, and Carlitos Garcia, 21, beat up 30-year-old Yandy Carrillo during an early morning fight on Sunday that caused serious injuries to his head.
Providing a home for the elderly
In a former private home across the street from Marianao Methodist Church, 15 older Cubans find assistance and companionship at a facility run by the Methodist Church in Cuba. “This is not the storage of elders,” Susana Reyes, the home’s manager for the past 13 years, points out.
Cuba sees explosion in internet access as ties with US grow
The 55-year-old theater producer connected the device to his phone and his laptop computer, which instantly lit up with a service unimaginable in the Cuba of just a few years ago – relatively fast home internet. “It’s really easy to sit and find whatever you need,” Gonzalez said as he sat in his living room updating his Facebook account, listening to Uruguayan radio online and checking an arriving tourist’s landing time for a neighbor who rents rooms in their building in historic Old Havana.
Cuba sees explosion in internet access as ties with US grow
In this Jan. 6, 2017 photo, people use a public wifi hotspot in Havana, Cuba. Home internet came to Cuba in December 2016, in a limited pilot program that’s part of the most dramatic change in daily life here since the declaration of detente with the United States on Dec. 17, 2014.
US policy change on Cuban migrants leaves many stranded
It took three months for Gabriel Marin and his wife, Yansiel, to make it from their home in eastern Cuba to this migrant shelter in Panama’s capital. The goal was the United States and now the door that spurred their odyssey has slammed shut.
Cubans sold everything to reach U.S., now hundreds stranded
A group of Cuban migrants share travel stories outside the Caritas shelter for migrants in Panama City, Panama, January 13, 2017. Lilia Gonzales , a staff member of the Caritas shelter for migrants, explains the center policy and options to new Cuban migrants that arrived the previous night to the center in Panama City, Panama, January 13, 2017.
Obama administration ends special immigration policy for Cubans | Reuters
The Obama administration on Thursday repealed a measure granting automatic residency to virtually every Cuban who arrived in the United States, whether or not they had visas, ending a longstanding exception to U.S. immigration policy. The end of the “wet foot, dry foot” policy, which allowed any Cuban who reached U.S. soil to stay but returned any picked up at sea, is effective immediately.
Obama ends visa-free path for Cubans who make it to US soil
President Barack Obama announced Thursday he is ending a longstanding immigration policy that allows any Cuban who makes it to U.S. soil to stay and become a legal resident. The repeal of the “wet foot, dry foot” policy is effective immediately.
Obama ends visa-free path for Cubans who make it to US soil
President Barack Obama announced Thursday he is ending a longstanding immigration policy that allows any Cuban who makes it to U.S. soil to stay and become a legal resident. The repeal of the “wet foot, dry foot” policy is effective immediately.
Photo Flash: Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Welcomes 140 Fans…
Rena Blades , President & Chief Executive Officer of the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County, today announced that the second Conversation of this season’s CULTURE & COCKTAILS series attracted more than 140 people last Monday to The Colony Hotel Pavilion, located at 155 Hammon Avenue in Palm Beach . , a conversation with two star appraisers from Antiques Roadshow on PBS: Kathleen Guzman , Managing Director/New York from Heritage Auctions, andNicholas Dawes, Heritage’s Vice President of Special Collections.
Obama Boots Russian “Spies”-but Welcomes Cuban Spies
The deepest and most damaging penetration of the U.S. Defense Department by an enemy agent in modern history was pulled off by a spy working for the Castro regime. Problem is, the mainstream media treasures their Havana bureaus.
Whether Cuba or Key West, it’s all about having fun
After a recent, somewhat hysterical spate of Citizen’s Voice comments about the supposed misuse of the terms “drag queen” and “female impersonator” around here – which, by many, many accounts are interchangeable – I decided to excavate an old image from an interesting evening in Havana in 2008 that featured just that. An elderly writer from New York City and I became acquainted during a trip to see Raul Castro speak on the 55th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution in Santiago de Cuba, and once back in the capital, she invited me out to “dinner and a show.”
Trumps Guantanamo Tweet was Uninformed and Ill-Advised
US president-elect Donald Trump’s that everyone held at Guantanamo Bay is “extremely dangerous” is ill-informed. What’s worse, his proposed course of action – stopping all releases – shows a lack of understanding about the danger keeping Guantanamo open poses to US National Security.
Cuba passes law banning naming sites after Castro
President Raul Castro had already announced that his older brother did not want to be immortalized with statues or public places named with his name. Photo: Getty Images Cuba’s National Assembly approved a law on Tuesday that bans erecting commemorative statues of Fidel Castro or naming public places after him, in accordance with the wishes of the revolutionary leader who died last month.
Reversing Cuba policy seen as a punch in the gut to Latin America
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, left, Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa, right, and Bolivia’s President Evo Morales acknowledge supporters during a welcome ceremony for presidents attending an extraordinary meeting in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Thursday , July 4, 2013. Bolivia’s President Evo Morales, left, Ecuador’s Rafael Correa, center, and Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez gesture during the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas Presidential summit with Authorities of Indigenous and African-descent in Otavalo, Ecuador, Friday, June 25, 2010.