Cuba’s Economy and Planning Ministry (MEP) approved 99 new applications for non-state businesses—98 private companies and one cooperative.

Casas de Cambio S.A. ( CADECA) announces today a new service that will allow customers to buy freely convertible currency (MLC) to deposit in debit cards.

 The local production of bio-pesticides in Cuban municipalities is expected to improve after the introduction of new equipment and resources to manage crop pests.

The injection of fresh foreign currency, which branches such as tourism, biotechnology and nickel seek to provide to the Cuban economy, usually occurs under the effects of the U.S. blockade, the ups and downs of international prices, the problems of the logistics chain and geopolitical conflicts on a global scale.

Esteban Lazo Hernandez, president of the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba (Parliament), visited today the Pradera Roja dairy farm in the municipality of Habana del Este, in Havana, founded in 1968 by Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz and heroine Celia Sanchez Manduley.

Sixty Seven new micro, small and medium companies –63 private, 4 state-run—were approved to operate by the Cuban Economy and Planning.

Experts with the Cuban Institute of Standardization, Metrology and Quality Control in this western province stressed the contribution of the center to the development of the tourist sector particularly in the Varadero Tourist region.

Cuba and Cambodia ratified today the will to boost cooperation in agriculture, during the visit to Phnom Penh of a delegation from the Caribbean country, which included technical meetings and exchanges with local businessmen.

The 42nd edition of the International Tourism Fair, FITCuba 2024, will be dedicated to the Latin American and Caribbean region, will be held in the Jardines del Rey archipelago and will promote its hotel, extra-hotel and nautical attractions, Cuban Tourism Minister Juan Carlos Garcia Granda announced.

Laboratory studies, a major pillar of scientific research in the province of Holguin, are restrained by the U.S. blockade of Cuba, which has caused damages amounting to billions of dollars since 1962.

Every Wednesday, the Argentina-Cayo Coco-Havana air route will resume its flights to the Jardines del Rey tourist resort, in the north of the province of Ciego de Avila.

Cuban Minister of Tourism Juan Carlos García Granda stressed at the 41st International Tourism Fair FITCuba 2023 that hard work is under way to get this field back on its feet after the pandemic, despite obstacles and limitations.

Cuba is participating at the 6th Meeting of the Forum of Latin American and Caribbean countries on Sustainable Development, which opened today at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago de Chile, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (MINCEX by its Spanish acronym) reported.

As part of the new measures for the revitalization of domestic trade in Cuba, it is planned to start this year the operation of the Joint Enterprise Gran Ferretero S.A., to install a hardware store to satisfy the demands of the domestic market.