The Laguna Azul Iberostar Hotel in the popular Varadero tourist center, western Matanzas province, will reopen its doors to vacationers on April 18 after a shutdown period due to the COVID-19 spread on the island.

The Cuban-Spanish BRAVO meat processing company, which provides Cubans with a varied array of highly demanded products, has been impacted by the restrictions imposed by the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of the island.

With more than 3,500 pieces of furniture, the MADUC (wood, hardness and quality) Furniture Base Enterprise Unit in this city, marketed products worth more than four million pesos.

The shortage of spare parts and essential medical equipment components are the main problems affecting the work of the Provincial Center of Clinical Engineering and Electromedicine of this eastern province as a result of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba.

Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel made a call to cut red tape, boost production and benefit producers during a meeting where a new set of measures was proposed to boost agricultural production.

The National Company of Industrial Gases is moving towards exporting its products for medicinal purposes, after certifying last January the nitrous oxide (anesthetic gas) by the Center for State Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices (CECMED), the country's regulatory authority.

Natacha Diaz Aguilera, Cuban ambassador to Ukraine, held on Monday a meeting with executives of the "Satguru Travels" tourism agency, where the two sides discuss expanding tourism, which has great potential for the two countries.

During the first quarter of this year, relations between state enterprises and self-employed forms of work increased in Cuba, with the aim of promoting the export of goods and services of the latter.

With the aim of increasing agricultural yields through import substitution, the Enrique Villegas Martinez Workshops Division of Santa Clara, which belongs to Azutecnia Company, promotes the manufacture of machinery for quality control of sugar cane.

With the weekly arrival of some 2,600 vacationers from Russia to the Jardines del Rey airport in Ciego de Avila, that country has positioned itself as the main market of the destination formed by the keys north of Ciego de Avila, since the reopening of operations in November 2020.

Cuban hotels and resorts, tourism companies, tour operators and travel agencies have been nominated to the World Travel Awards 2021, which covers all categories in the travel and tourism area, from hotels to airline companies and operators.

The Cuban ministry of economy and planning (MEP) denounced today on Twitter the considerable damages caused by the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade in the communications and information technology sector in the country.

The Cuban embassy in China held a seminar on the island’s foreign investment opportunities, which was attended by over 80 representatives of 40 Chinese companies, government agencies, banks, and financial institutions.

Cuban Premier Manuel Marrero acknowledged the contribution made by tourism workers during a year marked by the struggle against COVID-19.