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To ABC News Team

Dear ABC ‘Talk Back’ News Team,

Thank you for your interest in Bajan Global Report and to share our thoughts “on Raul Castro’s lifting of some restrictions on Cuban citizens— including whether it has change your view on the communist island and what the future may hold for U.S.-Cuban relations.”

Unfortunately we will have to decline the offer. Being very busy people that we are, we just do not have the time to do any video segments on Cuba or any relating to such as this blog alone demands our fullest attention.

If you find any original article[s] here however, feel free to use with credit to ‘Bajan Global Report’.

Thanks for your understanding.

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Passengers Can Now Use Cell Phones In Mid-Air

The European Commission cleared the way for all airlines to allow their passengers use their mobile phones, for calls, texts and emails. Ryanair will be among the first to avail of the facility this summer and are equipping their planes with the relevant technology. Air France has been testing allowing passengers send emails and attachments for the past three months on board one of their planes and has extended the trial to include calls and text messages. And Bmi, Portugal’s TAP and Emirates will join them in offering the service to passengers. But Germany’s Lufthansa said it will not be offering the service as its research showed passengers would prefer quieter flights. All texts and emails will all cost more than regular roaming charges and the airlines will get a cut. Mobile phone use has not been allowed on flights in case it interferes with the aircraft systems. Now an on-board cellular network will connect passengers’ phones to the ground via satellite, and avoid linking directly to networks on the ground. Passengers will not be allowed to use their phones during take-off and landing and the system will only operate at 3,000 feet, the normal cruising altitude for planes. The pilot will be able to switch off the system if necessary, for instance during turbulence. See previous articls – “Honey I Am On The Plane”! – Phones Calls In Mid-Air Coming Soon {Adapted from International Press Reports}

Cuban Blogger Yoani Sanchez Wins Journalism Award

Yoani Sanchez has been awarded one of Spain’s top journalism awards, the Ortega and Gasset prize for digital journalism. Sanchez won the prize for her ‘shrewdness” in overcoming hurdles to freedom of expression in Cuba, her vivacious style and her drive to join the global space of citizen journalism.”

El Pais, a Spanish newspaper awards the prize annually. Sanchez blog ‘Generacion Y’ chronicles her daily life, economic hardships and political constraints in her country.

See previous article – Cuba Locks Down Top Cuban Blog

{Taken from International Press Reports}

Cubans Can Now Watch Foreign TV

As what is seen as on going changes to breathe life into Cuba’s collapsing political and economic system, Raul Castro’s government is offering a new 24 hr channel with foreign contentto Cubans. This is the latest change since Raul Castro took over from his ailing older brother Fidel Castro.

Describing what he terms as “excessive prohibitions in the country”, the government also lifted the ban prohibiting Cubans from staying in their own hotels which was reserved for tourists only. Also private farmers have also been encourage to start planting crops like coffee and tobacoo on unused state lands to boost agricultural production.

See previous articles – Cubans Can Now Use Cell Phones After Their Government Have Denied Them For So Long!!!

Cuba Lifts Ban On Computers and DVD Players

{Taken from International Press Reports}

Cubans Can Now Use Cell Phones After Their Government Have Denied Them For So Long!!!

Cubans again have seen their government on Friday take another step to bring them into the 21st century. Previous allow only for persons in key government posts or working in foreign firms, the common man can now use a cell phone. This lastest step in removing restrictions on cell phones is aim at improving Cubans access to consumer goods.

See articles – Cuba Lifts Ban On Computers And DVD Players

                            Cuba Locks Down Top Cuban Blog

Cuba Locks Down Top Cuba Blog

        Cuba’s most popular blogger Yoani Sanchez said on Monday that Cuban authorities had blocked viewing of her blog and then allowed slow access to the website from Cuba.

Sanchez, whose critical “Generacion Y” blog received 1.2 million hits in February, said government censors had placed “filters” that delayed viewing of her Web page on a server in Germany ( http://www.desdecuba.com/generaciony/).

“This effectively blocks access to the blog. What Cuban with limited access to Internet is going to wait 15 minutes to see it?” Sanchez said.

On the weekend, attempts to view the site from Cuba met with a notice “The page cannot be displayed.” The state telecom monopoly ETECSA is Cuba’s only Internet service provider.

The 32-year-old Sanchez, a philology graduate, has drawn a considerable readership by writing about her daily life in Cuba and describing economic hardships and political constraints.

She has criticized Cuba’s new leader, Raul Castro, who formally took over from his ailing brother Fidel Castro last month, for his vague promises of change and minimal steps to improve the standard of living of Cubans.

“Who is the last in line for a toaster?” was the title of a recent blog that satirized the lifting of a ban on sales of computers, DVD players and other appliances Cubans long for, though toasters will not be freely sold until 2010.

In a country where the press is controlled by the state and there is no independent media, Sanchez and other Cubans have found in the Internet an unregulated vehicle of expression.

“This breath of fresh air has disheveled the hair of bureaucrats and censors,” she said in a telephone interview, vowing to continue her blog. “Anyone with a bit of computer skills knows how to get around them,” she said.

{Taken from Reuters}

See other article – Cuba Lifts Ban On Cmputers And DVD Players

“Honey I am On The Plane !” – Phone Calls In Mid-Air Coming Soon

The first authorised mobile phone call has been made during a commercial flight, meaning the sound of ringtones at high altitudes may become a feature of modern plane travel.

                                             

A passenger on an Emirates flight between Dubai and Casablanca made the historical call at 30,000 feet. The airline has said technology made by AeroMobile protects navigation equipment from interference.

Passengers normally have to switch their phones onto “flight safe mode” every time they step onto a plane.

{Taken from Sky News }

Cuban Lifts Ban On Computers And DVD Players

               

Cuba has authorized the sales of computers, DVD & video players and other electrical appliances in the first sign President Raul Castro is moving to lift some restrictions on daily life.

An internal memo seen by Reuters said the government ” Based on the improved availability of electricity the government at the highest level has approved the sale of equipment which was prohibited.”

The list includes computers, video, DVD players, 19 inch and 24 inch television sets, electric pressure cookers and rice cookers, electric bicycles,car alarms and microwaves that can now be freely bought by Cubans.

{Adapted from International Press Reports}