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 »
A new cooperation agreement between Japan and Cuba has been signed for a humanitarian donation of high-quality medical equipment for emergency services in hospitals and polyclinics throughout the country. The agreement is valued at 500 million Japanese yen (US... More »
The CIEGOPLAST company of Ciego de Ávila has restarted the production of hatchery cages made with high-density polyethylene tubes (TPAD) for intensive fish farming. The project, abandoned in 2007, has been brought back to life. CIEGOPLAST is known for its invo... More »
Cuba has recently expanded a 10-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic park to 15 MW of total capacity with the financial assistance of the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD). In a statement issued Sunday by the ADFD, the grid-connected project was scaled up with... More »
