“Varadero Beach is a totally reliable destination, a place you have to come at least once in your life,” said Luis Mario Villarreal, director of the Mexican brand Gran Retto, who also predicted another Open Water swimming competition in Cuba in 2023.

Manuel Marrero Cruz, Cuban prime minister, presides over the opening of the 12th Varadero Gourmet 2022 International Festival, scheduled to be held until September 15 at the Plaza America Convention Center in this seaside resort city.

Ecorestoration and modernity will be key themes in the opportunities for meetings, courses and exhibitions that the 12th Varadero Gourmet International Festival offers until September 15.

For 55 years, words such as tradition, passion, innovation and vanguard have been linked to Cohiba, the world’s most emblematic brand of Habanos S.A., top executives of the Cuban-Spanish joint venture said today in Havana.

Cuba’s Economy and Planning Ministry approved 106 new applications of micro, small and medium private companies.

Cuba’s Official Gazette has published on Monday a resolution by the Finance and Price Ministry authorizing the import of power gen
erators with no commercial aims.

Cuba was picked as Caribbean’s Leading Cultural Destination in 2022 by World Travel Awards for the second consecutive year.
Also nominated to the award was Trinidad-Tobago, Barbados, The Bermudas, Jamaica, Martinique and Puerto Rico.

The first Cuban trade delegation made up of representatives of 25 state and non-state enterprises, including MSMEs, will travel to the Dominican Republic this weekend, to participate in the multisectoral exhibition HUB Camara Santo Domingo 2022, scheduled for September 6 to 8.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called for efficiency and stable sugar production during the upcoming sugar cane harvest to kick off in November.

The Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment (MINCEX), Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz, participates from this Thursday in the first Afro-Caribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF 2022) underway in Barbados.

Some 370,000 economic actors are portrayed in the Cuban Business Guide (www.negocioscuba.cu), a complete directory of all forms of management in the country, the result of an alliance between the National Association of Cuban Economists and Accountants (ANEC), the Cuban telecommunications enterprise ETECSA and the MSME Dofleini SRL.

The Ministry of Economy and Planning (MEP) approved today 96 new applications for the establishment of private MSMEs.

Along with varieties of chickpea seeds that the Turkish Agency for Cooperation and Coordination (Tika) donated to Cuba a few years ago, now agricultural equipment is being added to improve yields and grain harvests in the municipality of Taguasco, Sancti Spiritus(central Cuba), where a cooperation project with that entity is being carried out.

The president of the Correos de Cuba Business Group, Pablo Julio Pla Feria, checked the behavior of international parcel operations, which continue arriving in the country in significant numbers.