When over 1370 micro, small and medium companies have thus far been approved in Cuba since last September, the island’s Economy Ministry has called for more applications to open new businesses particularly in the service area.

France’s Development Agency and the Republic of Cuba signed an credit-line accord in Havana to finance a project for the cleansing of the Luyano River on Havana Bay, according to the Cuban Foreign Trade and Investment Ministry.

Cuba’s Economy and Planning Ministry approved 86 new micro, small and medium companies on Wednesday, which takes the number of those enterprises to 1374 after the most recent approval of another 81 applications on December 29.

The reopening of tourist facilities in this central province, such as the 5-star Iberostar Grand Hotel Trinidad, local leisure activity and services for visitors keep recovering under safe COVID-19 protocols.

The online home-rental marketplace Airbnb Inc settled the payment of a fine imposed by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) for having guests in Cuba, an alleged violation of US sanctions against Cuba.

The National Sugarcane Hybridization Center, the only one of its kind in Cuba, located in the province of Sancti Spiritus(central region), is committed to improving the work of crossbreeding with the blooms of the grass in the mountains and the plains to strengthen the nation's sugarcane varietal program, vital for the development of sugar contests.

 Cuba’s Domestic Trade Ministry (MINCIN) announced the graduation on Thursday of 26 new international chefs as part of the local ARTECHEF program.

The International Eagle Ray Diving Site in Guardalavaca locality in this eastern Cuban province was granted the Golden Center distinction by the American and Canadian Underwater Certifications (ACUC) during the official opening of a new venue near the Brisas Hotel.

In the context of the 39th Meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission, Cuba and Vietnam agreed to create conditions for their enterprises to take more advantage of tariff preferences in order to increase trade and bilateral cooperation.

The province of Holguin is promoting a number of potential projects for foreign investment in keeping with the new legal regulations that empower local government bodies to develop this activity.

The Belgian airline TUI Fly had today its first Brussels-Havana flight, bound to have two weekly trips to this city and to the Varadero Beach resort in the province of Matanzas, according to a post on the Cuban Foreign Ministry’s website.

The revival of the central boulevard of Holguín, one of the most attractive spots of the city, is among the actions aimed at embellishing various social, economic and service facilities in the province on the occasion of the celebrations to pay tribute to the triumph of the Cuban Revolution held every January 1st since 1959.

Spain’s hotel chain Iberostar opened the new five-star hotel El Coral Level at Iberostar Selection Esmeralda on Wednesday on Cayo Cruz, a key off the northern coast of the eastern Cuban province of Camaguey.

The current sugar harvest in the province of Santiago de Cuba began with the Dos Ríos Agroindustrial Sugar Enterprise, preceded by a ceremony in which banners were given to the mechanized cutting workers’ brigades.