Cuban vice president and second secretary of the Communist Party´s Central Committee praised the performance of a sugar plant in the western Mayabeque province given its high levels of efficiency during the current sugar cane campaign.

Revolucion de Octubre factory of nitrogen fertilizers, in the city of Nuevitas, will end the year with 65,000 tons produced for sugarcane and the varied cultivations Cuban agriculture.

With an occupancy rate in 2014 of over 90 percent and customer recognition, the Iberostar Grand Hotel Trinidad , only five-star facility in the province of Sancti Spiritus, is reaffirmed as the preferred destination for foreign visitors.

With the arrival of some 90 passengers of Argentina, Uruguay, Guatemala and Peru, from Panama, Copa Airlines started flights, twice a week, to the Abel Santamaria International Airport of this city.

Cuba and Russia will identify new business opportunities to strengthen commercial exchanges in strategic areas of their economies, on the occasion of the 7th Session of the Business Committee to he held next week in this capital.

More than 35,000 self-employed workers have joined unions in the province of Holguín in response to the Guidelines for Economic and Social Policy of the Party and the Revolution, implemented in Cuba since 2010.

The central Cuban province of Villa Clara and its northern keys expect an increasing number of visitors from over 20 Latin American cities, who begin to arrive here today on a first flight by Panama´s Copa Airlines.

In October 187, 311 tourists arrived in Cuba, representing a growth of 11.5 percent over the same month of 2013, reported the Cuban National Bureau of Statistics and Information (ONEI).

Nguyen Huu Tri, Deputy Finance Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, announced the donation of five thousand tons of rice to Cuba, on behalf of the people and government of the Asian nation.

The 2014-2015 Sugar Cane Harvest kicked off in Cuba with expectations to increase the sugar output between 15 and 20 percent over the last campaign´s total production.

Cuban economy will continue to improve despite the US blockade, external financial restrictions and the international situation, said Economy minister Marino Murillo as he submitted on Friday the 2015 Economic Plan at a meeting of the Council of Ministers presided over by President Raul Castro.

Academic and scientific institutions of Cuba and Argentina expressed on Tuesday in this capital their intention to concrete projects for the development of products of great social impact, like biomaterials and medicaments.

Chilean foreign minister Heraldo Muñoz described as very positive the recent visit to Cuba by business people from his country and expressed his government´s intention to deepen commercial and cooperation relations with Havana.

More than 50 nations buy Cuban medicines and technologies, one of its main export items, said Victor Faife Perez, head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Services in the Ministry of Public Health.