The Cuban General Customs Office announced the suspension of cash payments in US dollars for tariffs and services related to imports.

Turkish airways will resume flights to Cuba on June 18 after the air connection was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The U.S. government maintains on its List of Prohibited Accommodations in Cuba 422 hotels and private rental houses operating in the Caribbean island.

The tightening of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba has hindered the operations of the Sociedad Mercantil Cubana Casas de Cambio (CADECA), its president, Joaquín Alonso Vázquez, said in Havana.

The International Taste and Quality Institute (ITQI) awarded two stars to Cubay Extra Añejo 1870 rum for its excellence, said Orlando Borrero, president of the Cuba Ron S.A. Corporation.

The implementation, as of June 21, of Resolution 176 of the Central Bank of Cuba (BCC), which stipulates that Cuban financial and banking institutions cannot receive cash deposits of U.S. dollars, is a legitimate reaction of the Caribbean nation to the tightening of the White House's measures.

Cementos Cienfuegos, located in this province, will produce a large part of the demand for this product in Cuba, after restarting the manufacturing process stopped during the first four months of the year, due to the absence of pet coke fuel, because of the U.S. blockade on the island.

Cuba´s Central Bank announced on Thursday the temporary cut of cash deposits in US dollars, according to a press release read on Cuban radio and Television.

The emblematic Habana Libre Tryp Hotel in downtown Havana readies to open doors to foreign visitors given the enforcement of new sanitary protocols.

Cuba will begin to sell in late June homegrown disposable, hygienic and surgical masks, according to Maribel Rodríguez Argüelles, general director of the Unimoda Textile Enterprise.

The Cuban ministry of tourism passed on Monday a regulation for the activity of national travel agencies, according to which these entities are the only ones of their kind authorized to carry out activities such as issuing, receiving and attending to travelers, representing foreign tour operators, and designing and commercializing tourist packages.

Cuba will inaugurate on June 15 for the self-employed sector the online electronic hardware store "Tu Solucion" (Your Solution), which will sell office and printing equipment, consumables, electronic components and those for communication networks, as well as cell phone parts and accessories.

Varadero Beach, the renowned sun-and-beach tourism area in western Matanzas province is expected to become a smart city following a project starting this month which includes the computerization of services and decision-taking processes based on real time data.

The Chambers of Commerce of Cuba and Abu Dhabi ratified Tuesday their willingness to work together for the sake of bilateral trade and investment agreements between Cuba and the United Arab Emirates.