The Paraguayan government announced on Monday that a trade mission from that country will visit Cuba to consider business opportunities.

The Cuban government approved five investment projects by foreign companies to operate at the Special Economic Zone in the western Mariel Harbor, which join the container terminal in operations there since 2014.

Doctor Alfredo Gonzalez, deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), thanked on Wednesday in Havana the German company Otto Bock for its donation of eleven state-of-the-art equipment for Cuban technical orthopedics.

The Cuban Small Farmers ´Association, founded by Fidel Castro 56 years ago, plays a front-line role in the ongoing update of the country´s economy and it is stronger than ever before.

The production of refined sugar in the central Cuban province of province of Camaguey reached 50 thousand tons since last December in two of its plants.

The president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development,(IFAD) Kanayo Nwanze will pay a visit to Cuba on Wednesday in an effort to boost bilateral cooperation between that organization and the Caribbean nation, amidst ongoing transformations in Cuban economy.

Entrepreneurs from the U.S. and Latin America are greatly interested in investment opportunities in Cuba, asserted on Friday in Mexico Lina Pedraza, Minister of Finance and Prices of the island, the Prensa Latina news agency reported from that country.

A trade mission from the recently set up Lebanese-Cuba Business Council (LCBC) will travel to Cuba in June to explore investment and business opportunities.

Cuba is, per se, a perfect destination for sea lovers. Throughout its 70 thousand square kilometer platform, this Caribbean archipelago treasures a natural environment with unique beauty and a good infrastructure for the development of a tourism modality that is still unexploited.

Executives with Cuba´s oil company Cupet released a regional report on the potential of the Cuban Exclusive Economic Zone in the Gulf of Mexico and announced new projects in the oil-drilling sector.

For the first time ever, more than 129 US travel agents and tour-operators are attending a Cuban tourism fair, said Tourism minister Manuel Marrero during the inauguration of the 35th edition of that event that runs till May 7 in central Ciego de Avila province.

With 27 tourist facilities under management in Cuba, Spain´s Melia Hotels International makes efforts to keep growing at the Cuban market, said directives with the hotel chain during the opening on Tuesday of the 45 International Tourism Fair.

The US Department of the Treasury announced on Tuesday the approval of a group of licenses for ferry services to Cuba.

Cuba´s tourism minister Manuel Marrero opened the 35 International Tourism Fair in the resorts on the keys off the central Ciego de Avila province as the event aims at consolidating the island a major Caribbean destination.