Over 2 thousand professionals and cigar lovers from 100 countries of the world are attending the 31st Habano Cigar Festival running till Saturday in the Cuban capital after two years of COVID-19 restrictions.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and president of the country, attends the opening of the Trade Fair of the 23rd Habano Festival, held at the Havana Convention Center.

More than 2,000 tobacco professionals and lovers from 100 countries are attending the 23rd Habano Festival, which from today until Saturday will take place after two years of inactivity due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Organizing Committee.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 became the Asian country with more businesses in operation at Cuba’s Mariel Special Development Zone.

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.