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First Cuban exports to the US in 50 years

For the first time in the past fifty years, Cuba will make in January its first exports to the United States, following the signing Thursday in Havana of a contract by the island´s CubaExport company and the US Coabana Trading LLC to import artisanal charcoal. Read More

Cuba forsees tourism growth in 2017

Cuba consolidates its opportunities to be a safe tourist destination and With attractive proposals in its presentation sheet as Isla del Caribe (Caribbean Island), in 2017 the aspiration is to reach the tourist number 4 million. Read More

Cuban Economy to Grow Two Percent in 2017

Cuban economy will only grow 2 percent next year following a 0.9 percent fall in 2016 due to financial limitations, said Economy minister Ricardo Cabrisas at the Eight Parliament Session on Tuesday. Read More

French airline Air Caraibes starts flying to Santiago de Cuba

French airline Air Caraibes started operating yesterday in this Cuban eastern city as part of the route Paris-Santiago de Cuba-Havana, with a weekly frequency. Read More

Turkish Airlines inaugural flight to Cuba arrives in Havana

Turkish Airlines, the airline with more destinations in the world, opened its flights to Havana, where it will travel from Istanbul three times a week, operations it plans to perform on a daily basis in short term. Read More

Google and Cuba Sign Bilateral Accord

Cuba’s Telecom Company ETECSA and Google signed a bilateral accord Monday in Havana through which the US company offers the island its Google Global Cache service allowing Cuban users to connect faster to the contents on that popular browser. Read More

Cuba expects to receive over four million tourists in 2017

The growing number of international visitors to Cuba, reported at over 3.1 million by the end of October, has sparked predictions of some 4.1 million in 2017. Read More

Emir of Qatar reiterates willingness to expand cooperation with Cuba

The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani reiterated his willingness to consolidate and expand cooperation relations with Cuba during a meeting in the capital Doha with visiting Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez, who is on a tour of Middle East countries up to November 28. Read More

Japan signs water infrastructure contract for Eastern Cuban region

Japanese ambassador to Cuba Masaru Watanabe signed a contract on Wednesday to set up a desalinization plant in the eastern Holguin coastal community of Caletones, Gibara municipality, in order to supply the people higher quality drinking water. Read More

Cuba to update all rice industry equipment

In order to avoid imports worth millions and increase production, the Cuban Ministry of Agriculture (MINAG by its Spanish acronym) plans to complete in 2018 the modernization of all the machinery used in the planting, harvesting and industrial processing of rice. Read More

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