HAVANA TIMES – The United States announced sanctions on Thursday against Havin Bank LTD, a London-based Cuban entity also known as Havana International Bank, dealing a blow to the Cuban financial system, reported mercopress.com The Treasury Department said it had placed the bank on its Office of Foreign Assets Control list of entities which US …

Eusebio Leal took Barack Obama on a tour of Old Havana during his visit to Cuba in March, 2016. Photo: Nestor Marti HAVANA TIMES (dpa) – Cuban historian Eusebio Leal, who restored the colonial beauty of portions of old Havana and helped to turn the city into a tourist attraction, died Friday at the age …

A French bank has decided to comply with an order from the U.S. Treasury Department and suspend the transfer of remittances to the island originating in the United States. The decision came after the Trump administration decided to include in the list of Cuban assets a London-based banking entity, Havana Internacional Bank (Havin), to which …

A synthetic peptides production plant, in which a drug used successfully in Cuba against COVID-19 will be manufactured, was inaugurated this Thursday at Havana’s Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB). President Miguel Diaz-Canel opened the plant. At the plant, identified with number 14 in the CIGB, the active pharmaceutical ingredient of the drug Jusvinza …

The data on COVID-19 in the last 24 hours in Cuba continue as follows: 11 new infections as a result of the 3,696 tests carried out in the country, the number of active patients increased to 164 and, as in 19 days ago, no deaths from the disease were reported. All were Cuban, according to …

By Ricardo Torres  (Progreso Weekly) HAVANA TIMES – The “Economic and Social Strategy for the Strengthening of the Economy” announcement has generated a far-reaching debate among experts and citizens, inside and outside Cuba. The moment for the new economic policy appears in the midst of a dire situation comparable to the deep recession of the …

Cuba will produce only 7,000 tons of beans in 2020, which represents just 10% of the annual demand on the island, said the head of the department of various crops of the Ministry of Agriculture (MINAG), Yojan García, quoted by the official media. Of the planned 46,000 hectares planted to beans this year, the number …

On Wednesday night Tropical Storm Isaias formed in the south of the island of Puerto Rico, in the Atlantic, with maximum sustained winds of up to 85 kilometers per hour. Meteorologists from the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) project that it will pass over the island of Hispaniola this Thursday and that it will continue …

Although the number of hospitalizations for the SARS-CoV-2 virus amounted to 400 and that of people under surveillance in their homes reached 3,436, in the last 24 hours the new infections decreased to nine, as reported today by Cuban health authorities. During his presentation to the press, in which Dr. Francisco Durán, national director of …

Help us keep OnCuba alive The Itolizumab monoclonal antibody, a creation of the Cuban Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM) that has shown its value in patients infected with coronavirus, was officially approved for use against this disease by the Cuban regulatory authority. The Center for State Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices (CECMED) confirmed …