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.

The Cuban National Assembly of People’s Power (Parliament) approved the country’s Economic Plan and State Budget for the year 2022 during the 8th Session of its 9th Legislature and in the presence of Army General Raul Castro and President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

The 2022 State Budget takes into account the gradual recovery of the Cuban economy in the basic levels of activity, in a complex scenario in which the tightened economic, financial and commercial blockade of the U.S. government and the effects of the world economic crisis produced by the COVID-19 persist.

Cuba plans to continue with a gradual economic and social recovery in 2022, with a growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at constant prices around 4%, Deputy PM and minister of economy and planning, Alejandro Gil Fernandez, informed today at the plenary session of the National Assembly of People's Power.

The micro, small and medium-sized private enterprise (MSME) EMJERCI, located in the city of Camaguey (central Cuba), is an example of the possibilities of this kind of business development for the Cuban economy.

The 2,018 megawatt-hours generated in five days by Cuba's first bioelectric plant in its test phase and synchronization with the Ciro Redondo sugar mill, which also tested its technology, covered one fifth of the Ciego de Avila province´s daily energy consumption.

The Cuban women’s role in the implementation of the programs adopted by the country regarding public policies was well ratified at the 14th National Gathering of Economist and Accountant Women, underway in this eastern Cuban city.

 The Blue Park Award was granted for the first time to a protected marine area in Cuba: the Jardines de la Reina National Park, located south of the provinces of Ciego de Avila and Camaguey, in central Cuba.

The preparations for the start of the 2021-2022 sugar harvest in the province of Sancti Spiritus are in the final stage, executives of the sugarcane sector in that central province told the Cuban News Agency.

The IV Ibero-American Summit on Accessible Tourism concluded today with the signing of the Havana Declaration, where Cuba publicly and officially expresses its willingness to collaborate in all actions that can lead to a truly accessible and inclusive tourism.