The prestigious Marriott hotel chain announced this Monday the closure of its operations in Cuba, after the U.S. administration of Donald Trump refused to renew its license to operate on the island. “We can confirm that starting tomorrow (Tuesday) Marriott will no longer be operating the Four Points by Sheraton in Havana,” Kerstin Sachl, the …

Cuba allocated only 5% of its investments to agriculture in 2019, economist Pedro Monreal warned this weekend, citing data from the Statistical Yearbook published by the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI). “The vulnerabilities of Cuba’s economic structure, aggravated by the recent crisis associated with the pandemic, impose an urgent review of investments,” Monreal …

Help us keep OnCuba alive August, the month in which a new outbreak of COVID-19 has forced taking severe measures, especially in Havana, closes for Cuba with another death and 33 new contagions from the pandemic. The 95th victim of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Cuba is an 84-year-old man from Havana, resident in Marianao, whose …

On March 11, 2020, the first cases of the new coronavirus were reported in Cuba. From that moment on, the pandemic started spreading throughout the island and its provinces. Faced with a problem that had already shown its scope in the world, the Cuban authorities started taking measures at the national level, as part of …

Experts from the Cuban Ministries of Public Health, Tourism and Transportation determined that ten airports on the island comply with the biosafety protocols established for arriving and departing flights to and from other countries, thus they can restart their international operations. A “rigorous inspection” evaluated whether these facilities have the conditions to guarantee compliance with …

Help us keep OnCuba alive The SARS-CoV-2 virus produced 59 new contagions yesterday, detected by Cuban health authorities after conducting more than 5,000 tests, and those infected by the new coronavirus on the island already amount to 4,032. All the cases correspond to Cubans, 47 were related to confirmed patients and in 11 individuals the …

Así se extenderán los estudios sobre la enfermedad a comunidades y centros donde se han registrado casos positivos y ampliar la pesquisa hacia grupos y sectores vulnerables. La entrada Crece red de laboratorios para diagnosticar covid-19 en Cuba se publicó primero en IPS Cuba.

Two decades ago, when the price of gasoline in the United States soared and surpassed the barrier of two dollars a gallon, there was speculation on how much more it would increase. The media was filled with specialists with all kinds of ideas. Some were right, as it would be seen later; others, absolute nonsense. …

The government of Havana proposed the creation of a card that works as a temporary authorization so that the new movement limitation measures don’t affect people whose identity documents reflect an address other than the place where they currently reside. The most controversial of the new restrictions, established to stop the wave of COVID-19 contagions …

Help us keep OnCuba alive After the two deaths caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus reported yesterday, the health authorities did not report deaths this Sunday, a day where the new infections totaled 48, after the making 4,591 tests throughout the country. All are Cuban, according to the report issued by the Ministry of Public Health …