After two years without being held due to the impact of Covid-19, the 23rd Habano Festival will open today until March 3 at the Convention Center in Havana, where the Trade Fair that accompanies each edition will be inaugurated.
Cuba has produced more than 23,000 electric vehicles
Between 2020 and 2022, Cuba manufactured and assembled 23,361 electric motorcycles and tricycles in response to the high demand for these vehicles as solution to the problems with public transport.
Cuban minister of foreign trade and investment kicks off official visit to Panama
With the aim of strengthening cooperation between Cuba and Panama, the island's minister of foreign trade and foreign investment, Rodrigo Malmierca, begins today an official visit to the Central American nation, which will last until February 25.
Cuban authorities announce new regulations for the transportation sector
Eduardo Rodriguez Davila, Cuban minister of transport, informed that Decree 83, with complementary norms, was published in the Extraordinary Official Gazette No.16, which updates the current legislation on the transfer of ownership of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers, their commercialization and importation.
Cuba hosts, after two years, Habano Festival
After two years, the Habano Festival has resumed in Cuba, an event that promotes the millenary culture and the art of harvesting, making and enjoying an authentic and unique product.
Cuba and Colombia to strengthen trade and investment ties
As part of an official visit to Colombia, Cuban minister of foreign trade and investment, Rodrigo Malmierca, showed representatives of more than 60 companies of the South American country the possibilities of business on the island.
Cuban Communications Company to implement option to pay for services
The MiTransfer Exchange will extend its scope to the mobile wallet modality and will offer customers the possibility of paying for goods and services where Transfermovil is activated, officials of the Cuban Telecommunications Company (Etecsa) told reporters.
Vietnam, Major Asian Partner at Cuban Special Development Zone
Vietnam became the Asian country with more businesses in operation at Cuba’s Mariel Special Development Zone.
Cuban Economy Takes on 100 New MSMEs
Cuba’s Economy and Planning Ministry approved the applications of 100 new micro, small and medium companies, 99 of which are private businesses.
Travel agency strengthens accessible tourism in Cuba
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.
New MSMEs Join Cuban Economy in 2023
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 promotes tourist attractions on Chinese social network
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.
U.S. blockade hinders Cuban transplant program
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.
Club Med 2 luxury cruise ship arrives in Havana
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.
Cuban Farmers Kick off Soybean Cultivation Program
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.







