Cuban-British joint venture firm BioFarma Innovations made its formal debut on Friday in London in an online seminar that featured Cuban advances in biotechnology. According to the Cuban Embassy in the U.K., the seminar analyzed the advantages of the business ... More »
“There will be a Festival, and it will be in two doses,” the president of the Havana Film Festival (International Festival of New Latin American Cinema), Iván Giroud Gárate, said in an exclusive interview. Inspired in the current context of the COVID pandemic,... More »
On behalf of an initiative of the Council of Canadians, a Nonprofit Organization, Dr. John Kirk, has brought together a number of Canadian personalities and organizations in support of a nomination of Henry Reeve’s medical brigades for the Nobel Peace Prize of... More »
His Excellency Ambassador Antony Stokes LVO attended a presentation at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) to learn of the progress of five collaborative projects supported by the United Kingdom. The Ambassador was received by Dr. Eulog... More »
Western Union in Cuba will be forced to close its doors to 407 payment locations due to the latest measures imposed by the Trump Administration. These regulations announced October 23 signifies the continued tightening of six decades of economic, financial and... More »
On Friday Cuba announced the approval of two new legal provisions that grant further guarantees to foreign capital business and protect investors. Decree-Law 14, approved by the Council of State last September and published yesterday in the Official Gazette, p... More »
Cuba reported on Thursday that the island has experienced losses of $5.6 billion in one year because of the economic, commercial and financial blockade enforced by the Trump administration. The Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla said the incr... More »
The British-German tour operator TUI (Touristik Union International) will begin offering twice-weekly flights to Varadero from the United Kingdom starting October 25. Carmen Casal from the Cuban Consulate in Montreal, Canada, announced the news in her Twitter ... More »
France’s Agence Française de Développement (AFD) (French Development Agency) reported this week that France’s Ambassador to Cuba, Patrice Paoli, met with Dr. Vicente Vérez Bencomo, Director General of the Finlay Vaccine Institute (IVF), to discuss French-Cuban... More »
Last night the government of Cuba announced that most of the Islands provinces will open up to international tourism next week under the “new normal.” The decisions were made based on the epidemiological situation of each province. Havana is one of the excepti... More »
The Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR) announced that the Varadero resort destination is preparing to open for international tourists on October 15. Resorts in Holguin, on Cuba’s east coast, will open its hotels again on November 3. According to MINTUR, the first st... More »
Deputy Prime Minister Ricardo Cabrisas is on an intensive working visit to the Russian Federation. His agenda includes meetings between his Russian counterparts, Russian business and the Intergovernmental Commission for Economic-Commercial and Scientific-Techn... More »
