Nearly five million people will benefit directly from the wage reform in Cuba, informed Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera, Minister of Labor and Social Security.

Some 15 thousand people in Cuba have gone to the Labor offices to look for work, after the announcement of the wage reform in the country that will come into force starting January 1st.

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 30 (ACN) The increase of prices in the water bill is also included in the Ordering Task, and it also intends to promote the saving of this vital resource, Meisi Bolaños, minister of finance and prices, pointed out on Tuesday when she addressed this issue at the Cuban TV program Mesa Redonda.

In line with the process of monetary order in Cuba, the Ordinary Official Gazette number 90 published today Resolution 177, which establishes the rules for the commercialization of agricultural products among the hotel and gastronomic establishments of the tourist sector and the production units.

In response to the concerns of the population, the Cuban government approved the reduction of the new electricity tariff, to be applied since the beginning of the monetary regulation process in January 2021.

After almost a year of adjusting to increase self-sufficiency in foreign trade operations, Asdrubal Lopez Coffee Processing Company, Cuba's largest exporter of coffee, this month completed its first direct commercial operation to the European market.

The new monetary order in Cuba will have medium and long-term effects, but in the short term, the positive impacts on productive activity will be minimal, academics warned.

Ivis Fernandez, delegate of the Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR) in the Cuban province of Matanzas, ratified the celebration of the International Tourism Fair (FITCuba) in May 2021, an event that is undergoing intensive preparation.

After being closed for several months due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Nacional de Cuba Hotel will reopen for tourism next December 30, day on which it will celebrate its 90th anniversary.

The Cuban company Commercial Caribbean Nickel S.A. and the Australian Caribe Metals Corporation Pty Limited (CMC) signed an International Economic Association contract to study the feasibility of the Cajálbana mining project, located in the municipality of La Palma, in Pinar del Río province.

Due to the beginning of the monetary order in Cuba next January 1, the payment of the advance on wages to the workers begins this Wednesday.

The Italian airline Luke Air, licensed by Blue Panorama and operated by the tour operator Itaka, will open Tuesday its first flight from Warsaw to the city of Santa Clara, in the center of Cuba.

Carlos Luis Jorge Méndez, general director of Foreign Investment of Cuba, said that a group of decisions have been taken that favor this activity in Cuba, and will be attractive because the investor will be able to perform in a more transparent economic environment, in which distortions are eliminated.

Cubana de Aviacion airline resumed operations in Argentina this Monday with a non-stop flight to Havana that departed from Ezeiza Airport in the capital city of Buenos Aires.