Cuba has so far received 1,612,371 foreign visitors, an increase of 5.15% over the same period last year, according to data presented on Friday to members of Parliament by the Minister of Tourism, Manuel Marrero.

The Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries Group, BioCubaFarma, reported 315 million dollars in revenues in 2018, and was granted 116 new patents abroad, according to its director Eduardo Martínez.

With a high nutritional value and acceptance in the foreign market, sea cucumber is one of the exportable lines of the Empresa Pesquera Industrial La Coloma (Epicol) of Pinar del Río, for greater income to the national economy.

Sandra Eva Lomelí, professor at the University of Guadalajara, discussed the possibility of applying in Cuba the design of a system of costs for small and medium enterprises, in the last session of the XVI Cuban congress of women economists and accountants.

Businessmen from Cuba and Slovenia laid the foundations to increase their trade in a Business Forum in sectors that are key to the economies of both countries.

Cuba and Japan signed on Tuesday in Havana two legal instruments to formalize the granting of two donations, aimed at improving electricity service and the purchase of buses for urban transport.

With the presence of delegations from 22 countries, the 22 International Agro-industrial Food Fair Fiagrop 2019 will be inaugurated this Monday, at the Rancho Boyeros fairgrounds, in Havana.

Although it already has more than 6,796 customers registered in Mobile Banking, Banco Popular de Ahorro (BPA) in the province of Camagüey aspires to increase this figure, with the aim of facilitating all types of monetary transactions through the use of new technologies.

About 300,000 tons of charcoal were sent to Europe by the province of Ciego de Ávila in little more than a decade, with the aim of improving the Cuban economy and increasing financial capacity and industrial and agricultural projects.

The Cuban Telecommunications Company (ETECSA) will carry out from this Friday the tests of the 4G technology in the capital.

Five days before the same previous period, Cuba reached this Monday one million tourists, said Manuel Marrero Cruz, Minister of Tourism, considered one of the sectors of the Cuban economy.

WYM Group, S.A. became the first Québec-based company to establish itself in the Mariel Special Development Zone (ZEDM), for the production and marketing of tissue paper and cleaning products.

Cuba will participate in the Vitrina Anato 2019 International Tourism Fair, which will take place from February 27 to March 1 at its usual headquarters in Bogota, Colombia.

The European Union (EU) presented on Monday in Havana its Program to Support Cuba's Energy Policy in order to help change its energy matrix, reduce the consumption of fossil fuels and replace them with renewable sources (FRE).