Cuba’s Economy and Planning Ministry approved the applications of 100 new micro, small and medium companies, 99 of which are private businesses.

In a trip organized by the Enjoy Travel Group agency, for the first time a group of tourists with disabilities arrived in Havana from Spain, consolidating the modality of accessible tourism in the country.

Cuba’s Economy and Planning Ministry approved 98 new micro, small and medium companies; 97 private business and one state-run, according to the Ministry’s Telegram account.

Cuba's ambassador to China, Carlos Miguel Pereira, made a presentation of the island's tourist destinations, cultural attractions and main export products during a live broadcast of the Chinese social network Kuaishou in which he talked about the idiosyncrasy of his country, discussed the development of bilateral relations and showed brands of Cuban rum, honey, coffee and fruit paste.

The kidney transplant program is one of the worst hit within the health sector in the province of Holguin by the tightening of the U.S. blockade of Cuba, imposed since 1962.

The Club Med 2, one of the largest sailing cruise ships in the world, arrived in this city as part of a tour around of the Caribbean.

For the first time, farmers in western Pinar del Rio province have started a massive cultivation of soybean as part of a program aimed at developing the crop in the territory.

Some 59 agriculture areas are opened to foreign investment this year, executives announced during a press conference on Tuesday.

The cultivation of ecological potato has spread to eight Cuban provinces and a municipality during the 2022-23 campaign after the good outcome of the first planting of that vegetable proved favorable for municipal self-sufficiency and the country’s food sovereignty policy.

The Ministry of Economy and Planning (MEP) approved 111 new economic actors, of which 110 are private and one is state-owned.

The Cuban trading company Casas de Cambio S.A. (Cadeca) reported today that the cash transfer service to be credited to accounts associated with magnetic cards in Cuban pesos (CUP) of natural persons has been extended to the whole country.

The U.S. blockade of Cuba tampers with document conservation in the province of Holguin because it prevents the purchase of the necessary raw materials, including the fine-weight tissue paper for lamination, the acetate for binding, and computer equipment, to name just a few, said Surema Gutierrez, a specialist of the Provincial Historical Archive.

The Villa Tortuga hotel, located in the beach resort city of Varadero, will be Cuba's first pet-friendly facility for those tourists who wish to vacation in the company of their pets, the Ministry of Tourism ( MINTUR) announced today.

Cuban vice-president Salvador Valdes Mesa is analyzing today in the province of Pinar del Rio the tobacco situation, as part of a tour he has been carrying out in that territory since Thursday to check the recovery after the passage of Hurricane Ian.