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Private Cuban entrepreneurs have signed only 25 export contracts
Private entrepreneurs and cooperatives in Cuba have only managed to sign 25 export contracts, despite the growing interest of these types of enterprises to participate in foreign trade activities. “To date, the 37 companies designated to carry out export and import services to non-state forms of management have received 3,471 interests to develop some type …
Cuba: low agricultural yields announced for 2020-2021 winter harvest
In Cuba, the 2020-2021 winter harvest has been marked by limitations in the purchase of fertilizers and by the loss of crops. This will affect meeting the demand for food next year. The Director General of Agriculture of the Ministry of Agriculture (MINAG), Miguel Rosales Román, said that various crops’ winter harvest had begun on …
Sunwing Relaunching Cuba Flights
Sunwing is relaunching its flight service to Cuba on Dec. 13, Caribbean Journal has learned. The Canadian travel giant will relaunch Cuba flights with weekly service from Toronto and Montreal to Cuba’s beach vacation hub of Varadero. Both the Toronto and Montreal flights will be operating on Sundays, according to the company. Canadians make …
Cuba inicia en enero la unificación monetaria y cambiaria
Las autoridades reiteran que nadie quedará desamparado ni se aplicarán terapias de choque, a la vez que se buscará el consenso y la unidad. La entrada Cuba inicia en enero la unificación monetaria y cambiaria se publicó primero en IPS Cuba.
Cuba with 75 new cases of coronavirus, 30 of them imported
The number of new infections caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Cuba dropped to 75, after the processing of 10,236 tests yesterday, according to the report issued by the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). All of the positive cases correspond to Cubans, of which in 30 cases the source of infection was identified abroad; 39 …
Cuba: 2019-2020 school year concludes without transmission of COVID-19 in classrooms, says deputy minister
The 2019-2020 school year in Cuba ended without reports of transmission of COVID-19, said the island’s Deputy Minister of Education, Dania López, this Wednesday. After the closure of schools last March due to the spread of the coronavirus epidemic in the country, the Cuban Ministry of Education “implemented strategies to maintain teaching, such as telelessons, …
Cuba fortalece su respuesta a la violencia de género
En noviembre fue presentado en diferentes espacios los objetivos del Programa Nacional para el Adelanto de las Mujeres (PAM), que actualiza el Programa Nacional de Seguimiento a la Plataforma de Acción de Beijing (1997). La entrada Cuba fortalece su respuesta a la violencia de género se publicó primero en IPS Cuba.
Cuba accepts majority foreign participation in investment projects
Cuba is giving way to majority foreign participation in investments in key sectors such as tourism, biotechnology and wholesale trade, according to Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz. The demand for a majority Cuban presence will remain in branches such as the extraction of natural resources and the provision of public services, …
Coronavirus: Cuba again reports 124 new cases in one day
The Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) again reported 124 new cases of coronavirus at the close of this Tuesday, equaling the record of infections in a day reached two days ago. Thus, the island exceeded 9,000 infections detected since the beginning of the pandemic (a total of 9,106), while it did not register new deaths …
AMAURY PACHECO FROM CUBA’S SAN ISIDRO MOVEMENT SPEAKS on the incredible day/night of November 27th at the Ministry of Culture in Havana.
Havana Times. December 8, 2020 Original Article Amaury Pacheco a founding member of the San Isidro Movement HAVANA TIMES – After the meeting between Vice-Minister of Culture, Fernando Rojas, and 30 representatives of hundreds of people present at the protest outside the Ministry of Culture – on November 27th – Amaury Pacheco, a founder of …