Cuba Announces 6 star Golf Country Club and Resort with Private Property Sales

A six star luxury golf resort - Carbonera Country Club Resort - is being built in Cuba. Clients will not only be able to stay at the facilities, they will also be able to purchase property. Private property was previously not available on the island. The Esencia Hotel and Resorts group, a tourism company from the United Kingdom and the Cuban Ministry of Tourism announced. The country club and golf course will be built on the Gulf of Florida.

This Cuban tourism project comes in the wake of the energizing economy as the government diversifies and tries to increase revenue in key areas.

The project is a joint venture of Havana Holdings of the UK - owners of Esencia Hotel and Resorts group, La Floridita bar chain, Conran & Partners architects owned by Sir Terence Conran and the Cuban Government.

A 350 million Euro investment will be made in the Carbonera Country Club project. The group is waiting for approval for other similar projects in the country.

Carbonera Country Club Resort in Cuba will have a 150 room boutique hotel, a pier, a country club with full golf amenities and a PGA 18 hole golf course with clubhouse.

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Cuba reforms turn to state land

Large areas of Cuba's farm land lie fallow and food imports are high

Cuba is to put more state-controlled farm land into private hands, in a move to increase the island's lagging food production.

Private farmers who do well will be able to increase their holdings by up to 99 acres (40 hectares) for a 10-year period that can be renewed.

Until now, private farmers have only been able to run small areas of land.

The BBC's Michael Voss, in Havana, says this is one of President Raul Castro's most significant reforms to date.

National security

President Castro, who took over from his ailing brother Fidel in February, considers reducing costly food imports as a matter of national security.


For various reasons there is a considerable percentage of state land sitting vacant, so it must be handed over to individuals or groups as owners or users...

Cuban decree

Since the 1959 revolution, some Cubans have been allowed to run small family farms. But most agriculture has been placed in the hands of large, state-owned enterprises.

Our correspondent says these have proved highly inefficient - half the land is unused and today Cuba imports more than half its needs. Rising world food prices will cost the country an extra $1bn this year.

The presidential decree was published in the country's Communist Party newspaper, Granma.

In it, co-operatives are also allowed to add an unspecified amount of additional land for 25 years, with the possibility of renewing the lease.

Grants cannot be transferred or sold to third parties.

"The maximum to be handed over to individuals who do not hold land is 13.42 hectares (33 acres), and for those who hold lands, as owners or designated workers, the amount can rise as high as 40.26 hectares (99 acres)," the decree said.

"For various reasons there is a considerable percentage of state land sitting vacant, so it must be handed over to individuals or groups as owners or users, in an effort to increase production of food and reduce imports," it added.

The decree also said that farmers would have to pay taxes on their production, but it did not say how much.

The reform has been promised for some time by President Castro.

Since taking over the presidency, Raul Castro has signed the UN human rights accords and lifted restrictions on Cubans owning mobile phones and computers.

He has also announced that workers can earn productivity bonuses, doing away with the egalitarian concept that everyone must earn the same, our correspondent says.


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PDREX.COM S.A. offers $0.003 Per Share to PANAMERSA Corporation (PNMS:PK) Shareholders

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Petrocaribe and the Agreement of Energy Cooperation

Petrocaribe was created 29 of June, 2005 in Venezuela with the idea of aiding neighbors in footing the ever-increasing oil bill. The agreement allows participating countries to pay for part of the oil they import in cash and another percentage in services and goods. This agreement is a very good example of activities that further promote the commercial integration of the Pan American region.

Participating countries include: Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Cuba, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Surinam, Saint Lucía, Saint Christopher & Nieves and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

In recent months the agreement has taken on even more importance as oil prices continue to climb. Costa Rica has sought entry into the agreement and so have other countries.

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Panamersa invites our sense of belonging audience to the 13th International Convention and Fair - Informatica 2009 – Feb. 9-13, 2009 Havana, Cuba

La Habana, Cuba

Announcing an important step to further promote the commercial integration of the Pan American region. Panamersa, in conjunction with la Empresa Nacional de Software Desoft de la Informatica y las Comunicaciones de la Republica de Cuba, invite you to extend this call to personalities and professionals related to the sectors of:
- Information technology
- Software
- Telecommunications
- Electronics
- Automation
- Medical equipment

This 13th edition of the fair will be held from Feb 9 – 13th, 2009 in Havana, Cuba at the Palacio de las Convenciones de La Habana, and the PABEXPO Fair Compound.

The organizing committee's objective of this gathering which is for all without frontiers, is to:

1. Encourage companies, organizations and individuals with a sense of belonging to participate in this flagship technical fair
2. Encourage research, development and technological innovatin in the field of information and telecommunication technogies and to share concepts and criteria on the role they play in the convergence of knowledge
3. Provide exchanges of the experience in utilizing the IT in Spread the fields of health and education for social benefit
4. Exchange specialized information in the fields of Telecommunications, Applied Informatics, Electronics, Automation, Electronic Commerce and Geomatics
5. Spread knowledge and experience that improve the development of the software efficiency and quality
6. Encourage the application and development of the the open source technologies
7. Evaluate, develop and implement strategies and actions tht contribute to the IT networks security warranty
8. Develop strategies to breach the Digital Divide


Delegates from all over the world have come to previous editions of this Fair including from Latin America, Asia, Europe, Canada and the United States.

Panamersa invites you to extend this call to personalities, scientists and professionas related to the sector of Information, Telecommunications, Electronics and Automation Technologies, who may wish to interchange knowledge and experiences in this field in a friendly climate to all without frontiers during this event.


For more details:
http://panamersa.net
http://www.InformaticaHabana.cu
http://www.InformaticaHabana.com

or write cio@grupo.panamersa.net

Official tour operator:
Havanatur
http://www.havanatur.cu


Thank you.

Pedro Borges Fiol

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