Anayansi Rodriguez, Cuba´s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), spoke on debate on Item 138 of the agenda of the world organization entitled Improvement of the UN financial situation.

Executives and workers of the tourism sector in the Cuban province of Ciego de Avila are getting ready all hotel and extra-hotel facilities and are also in search of suppliers and other entities to face the coming high tourism season.

President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez attended the inauguration of the Grand Packard Hotel in Havana, which marks the beginning of a new phase in the sector that is committed to the high standard segment.

Havanatur S.A. and American Airlines (AA) signed a new commercial contract, in effect from Monday, whereby the Cuban tour operator begins to sell tickets from the US airline through its more than 80 offices around the country.

By the end of 2018, the Spanish hotel chain Melia will run 34 hotels and 14,661 rooms in Cuba. The upward trend in these figures received a boost this year, after the company invested some 150 million dollars in the island.

The 2018-2019 harvest will begin next November at the Argeo Martinez sugar mill in the province of Guantanamo, announced on Sunday in Havana Julio Andres Garcia Perez, president of AZCUBA Sugar Group.

Cuba is carrying out a group of actions aimed at improving the reception, transfer and storage of goods, raw materials, food and other items, including the improvement of the port-transport-internal economy chain, and also to counteract the effects of the blockade on these operations or services.

The Delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture in the eastern Cuban province of Las Tunas reported that will put in operations some 875 irrigation systems throughout its territory in order to increase food production.

Cuba will build a bioelectric plant, which will be associated with a sugar plant, and a 50 MW wind farm through a loan granted by India, said today in New Delhi the Cuban Minister of Energy and Mines, Raul Garcia Barreiro, according to Prensa Latina.

Habanos SA, a world leader in the sale of premium cigars, will participate in the International Fair of Tobacco Products and Accessories for smokers INTER-TABAC, to be held in the German city of Dortmund, September 21-23.

The Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos (CSMC) S.A. and the Canadian tour operator COGIR, signed on Wednesday in this capital an agreement for the implementation of a program dedicated to the medical attention of Canadian tourists of the third age.

Varadero, Cuba´s main tourist pole of sun and beach, will have three thousand rooms by 2020, thus continuing the good rhythm of contruction that is carried out there, said Ivis Fernandez, delegate of the Tourism Ministry (MINTUR) in Matanzas province.

Trading with the Enemy Act, one of the legal basis of the blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba was extended on Monday by US President Donald Trump through a memorandum sent to the Secretary of State and Treasury.

José Dioni, president of the International Bartenders Association (IBA), said that Cuba has the capability of hosting the 2022 World Cocktail Championship.