The 4% increase in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) this year is a good result, in spite of the international economic crisis and the persistent economic, financial and commercial blockade of the United States, asserted on Tuesday Army General Raul Castro, President of the Cuban councils of State and Ministers.
Cuban Parliament evaluates economic performance and prospects
Cuban lawmakers are gathering Tuesday at the 6th Session of the Cuban Parliament´s 8 th Legislature to consider the performance of the country´s economy in 2015 and its prospects for 2016 and the pace and results during the past five years of the update of Cuban economy.
New measures to boost Cuban agricultural production
The Cuban government will grant credits to Basic Units of Cooperative Production (UBPC) in order to invest in livestock from next January.
Cuba produced 134 million cigars for export in 2015
Workers of the Internacional Cubana de Tabacos (ICT by its Spanish acronym) produced more than 134 million cigars for the domestic market and export this year.
Cuban economy grew 4 percent in 2015
Cuban Economy Minister Marino Murillo said that, despite the negative impact of the US blockade on Cuba and financial restrictions, the Gross Domestic Product grew 4 percent in 2015, compared to last year.
Cuban ETECSA to compensate clients for technical failures
The Telecommunications Company of Cuba S.A, (ETECSA by its Spanish acronym) informs to its customers of nauta mail services on the measures it will apply in compensation for technical difficulties produced in the last weeks of November which caused disruption and instability of this service.
Cuba and Sweden Seek to Strengthen Bilateral Relations
With the aim of strengthening and expanding exchanges, Cuba and the Kingdom of Sweden signed on Friday in Havana a memorandum of understanding to establish a practical and effective mechanism of consultation between Foreign Ministries.
Over a million Cubans working in urban agriculture
More than a million Cubans are linked -from one way or another- to the National and Urban, Suburban and Family Agriculture Program, a production system that emerged 18 years ago.
Cuban tourism grows 17.6 pct till November
Even while critics and pessimists have sought to injure its growing popularity as a tourist destination, Cuba ends 2015 with an encouraging development of this sector, able to inject to its economy over two billion dollars a year .
Over half a million Cubans benefitted with water projects
The projects implemented by the Cuban Water Resources Institute in 2015 benefitted over half a million Cubans.
Austria Identifies in Cuba New Business Opportunities
Business persons of important companies of Austria explore in Cuba new business opportunities that allow strengthening bonds, on the occasion of the visit to the island of Alois Stöger, Federal Minister of Transport, Innovation and Technology of the European nation.
First Beijing-Havana direct flight to take place December 27
Next December 27 at 8:15 Cuba time, the first Air China direct flight from Beijing will arrive in Havana, the Cuban Tourism Ministry announced.
Rise in the number of cruise ships in Santiago de Cuba for 2016
The amount of dockings of cruise ships in the Cruise Terminal of this city will reach 24 from December 19 during the current high season which runs until April.
Cuba looks for foreign investment, says Minister
Cuba is making efforts to attract new businesses as part of its economic model update, said in Argentina, Rodrigo Malmierca, Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, reported Prensa Latina.
Argentinean Business Community Interested in Cuba
Dozens of Argentinean business people attended a lecture in Buenos Aires by Cuban Foreign Trade and Investment minister Rodrigo Malmierca on the business opportunities in Cuba.