The Chambers of Commerce of Cuba and the Bolivian province of Santa Cruz, held a virtual Business Forum, with the aim of promoting the potential for exchange between the two nations.

 The delegation of the ministry of tourism in Holguin(eastern Cuba) and its respective travel agencies are promoting these days, through digital platforms, the different services and the natural and recreational benefits available in the province, both for the domestic and foreign markets.

Despite the impact by COVID-19 during the year 2020, Habanos S.A. company reported positive results regarding cigar sales and the Cuban product’s consolidation in the world market said Habanos authorities during the virtual Habanos World Days underway till Thursday.

HAVANA, Cuba, May 3 (ACN) The paralyzation of equipment and limitations in the supply of fuel are some of the effects suffered by the Automotive Transportation Services Business Group (GEA by its Spanish acronym) as a result of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz reiterated on Thursday his country's interest in strengthening cooperation with the countries of the European Union in areas such as trade, energy, transport, tourism, iron and steel industry, mining, health, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.

The Central Bank of Cuba (BCC) announced a new set of measures, to come into force immediately, on credits and financing to farmers, in view of disagreements in this matter presented by them and the call of the country's authorities to solve them.
Francisco Mayobre Lence, first vice-president of the BCC, explained that as of January, with the implementation of the Ordering Task, there was an increase in expenses and, therefore, higher financing was requested.

Salvador Valdés Mesa, Vice President of the Republic of Cuba, toured in the Cuban eastern province of Holguín important zones and productive poles where he checked the progress of the crop programs linked to the current spring campaign and the actions aimed at achieving local self-sufficiency.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla denounced today on Twitter the effects of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade on the procurement of medicines for pharmacies, hospitals and health centers in the country and described the unilateral policy that Washington has reinforced in times of COVID-19 as an obstacle to the acquisition of essential consumables and drugs whose suppliers and the banks they work with are the object of threats and reprisals.

Non-state management forms in Cuba have so far signed 1,987 contracts with state enterprises aimed at facilitating the export and import of goods and services.

Cuba, due to its control of the COVID-19 pandemic, is a guarantee for tourism in the region, said Angel Sanchez, director of operations of the hotel chain Roc Hotels, for the Caribbean region, at the Roc Arenas Doradas, in this resort city, to the press.
It is obvious that if there is a country that s outstanding in the management of the epidemic at world level it is Cuba, the incidence of cases is not significant if compared with neighboring countries and outside the environment, he said.

With the approval of the trading company Ferromar S.A. as a user of the Mariel Special Development Zone (ZEDM), this productive and logistics platform located in western Cuba strengthens its transportation services.

Ivis Fernández Peña, delegate of the Ministry of Tourism (Mintur) in the Cuban province of Matanzas, said that the Russian tourists shows high levels of satisfaction with the services and biosafety standards in this seaside resort city.

In Cuba, more than 91 % of the 60, 099 assemblies planned in the political process of information and presentation of the Plan of the economy and the Budget, which is in its final phase of implementation, have already been held.

Representatives of South Africa and Cuba ratified through a videoconference the validity of the Agreement on Cooperation in Water Resources Management and Water Supply, signed on February 6, 2020, Prensa Latina news agency reported in a dispatch dated in Pretoria.