Simon Calder, also known as The Man Who Pays His Way, is co-author, with Emily Hatchwell, of Traveller’s Survival Kit: Cuba.
Cuba has seen better days. The country looked broken and unrecognizable after Hurricane Oscar's landfall. Deaths climbed to at least six in the country following Hurricane Oscar's impact. Making ...
More than 95% of power comes from fossil fuels, with no investment to upgrade the system and blackouts a regular problem ...
Vancouver International Airport (YVR) does not currently show cancelled flights to Cuba but most flights from Vancouver to ...
Cubans expressed alarm, with one resident saying it felt as if the country had reached the “bottom of the barrel.” ...
Fidel Castro once called Cuba’s power plants “prehistoric.” But the country still relies on them, contributing to the longest ...
This area is not only famous for the US Military-run torture prison but is also considered a beautiful historical and significant tourism destination in Cuba. Located on the far eastern edge of ...
(AP Video/Ariel Fernández and Milexsy Durán) Cuba’s electrical grid went offline Friday after one of the island’s major power ...
Jimenez, on his first visit to the tourism-dependent island, said that a hotel in northeastern Cuba where the group stayed before going to the capital was repeatedly hit by power cuts, making even ...
"We came on holiday to enjoy ourselves, to get to know Cuba," the 46-year-old Mexican businessman said. "Things went badly for us," he told AFP as he walked through Havana with his friend Rodrigo ...