HAVANA (Reuters) - Communist Cuba is revamping the state wage system to create more incentive by allowing workers to earn as much as they can, local media said on Thursday, in the latest sign new President Raul Castro wants to improve the country's economic performance. Under Labor and Social Security resolution nine, and for the first time in decades, there is no limit on a state employee's earnings, state-television reported. "For the first time it is clearly and precisely stated that a salary does not have a limit, that the roof of a salary depends on productivity," economic commentator...
Date set for Cuba-US immigration talks in Havana
The Miami Herald
The Miami Herald
HAVANA -- Cuba wants to negotiate an agreement with the U.S. to slow the trafficking of its citizens fleeing the island and hopes to tackle the issue during immigration talks rescheduled for February, the foreign...
Date Set to Open Cuba-U.S. Immigration Talks in Havana
Fox News
Fox News
HAVANA Cuba wants to negotiate an agreement with the U.S. to slow the trafficking of its citizens fleeing the island and hopes to tackle the issue during immigration talks rescheduled for February, the...
Castro daughter says Cuba communists exclude gays
The Star
The Star
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro's daughter accused the ruling Communist Party on Tuesday of discrimination against gays and said she will write a letter to its "top leadership" demanding that it end. Her...
CDA: Obama Should End the Cuba Travel Ban and Stop Wasting U.S. Funds on Regime Change Effort
PR Newswire
PR Newswire
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sarah Stephens, executive director of the Center for Democracy in the Americas, issued the following statement about the Foreign Aid budget request for 2011 which proposes...
CDA: Obama Should End the Cuba Travel Ban and Stop Wasting U.S. Funds on Regime ...
Yahoo Daily News
Yahoo Daily News
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 – WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sarah Stephens, executive director of the Center for Democracy in the Americas, issued the following statement about the Foreign Aid budget request...
Cuba says immigration talks with US set for Feb. 19, wants people-smuggling crackdown
Hartford Courant
Hartford Courant
(AP) — Cuba wants to negotiate an agreement with the U.S. to slow the trafficking of its citizens fleeing the island and hopes to tackle the issue during immigration talks rescheduled for February, the foreign...
Cuba performing state-sponsored sex change surgery
Seattle Times
Seattle Times
HAVANA - Cuba has begun performing state-sponsored sex-change operations after the government lifted a longtime ban on the procedure in 2007, President Raul Castro's daughter said Tuesday. A sexologist and gay-rights...
Cuba Begins Peforming State-Sponsored Sex-Change Operations
Fox News
Fox News
HAVANA Cuba has begun performing state-sponsored sex-change operations after the government lifted a longtime ban on the procedure in 2007, President Raul Castro's daughter said Tuesday. A sexologist...

