So far this year, 1,020 irregular migrants have been returned to Cuba from the United States, Mexico and the Bahamas, according to data provided by the Cuban official press. So far, 22 return operations have been carried out, 12 by sea. The U.S. Coast Guard leads the maritime returns, although there have also been two…
The city of Matanzas will host the All-Star Game of the 61st National Baseball Series (SNB) in Cuba, sports authorities announced on Monday, March 7. The event, which will take place on Saturday, March 19 and Sunday, March 20, will gather at the Victoria de Girón stadium the best-performing ballplayers in the first two months…
Scientists from the Cienfuegos Center for Environmental Studies (CEAC) and the Moscow Research Institute of Aviation Materials (VIAM) discussed climate testing of materials. The talks revolved around the Cuban-Russian station for climatic testing of materials and structural elements in the tropical conditions of the Caribbean, the 5 de Septiembre newspaper reported in its digital edition….
The industrial-scale production of the first batch of national manufacturing of traffic light cabinets, control boxes and traffic light cards, which will allow achieving technological sovereignty in this area, considerable foreign currency savings and, once this work is consolidated, the development of speed radars and ethylometers, is among those planned for the second half of…
Spanish company Flexible Autos will offer car rental services for tourists in Cuba. Its operations have started in February, according to the Spanish website Agent Travel. The company will provide services through its subsidiary Cuba On The Road, which already has headquarters and offices in the Cuban capital, Havana, in several hotels in Old Havana,…
A new Italian government ordinance was announced this week in which the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza announced that Cuba would be included among the countries within the COVID-19 free tourist corridor, which has been in operation since September 2021. This news has been much awaited both for the tourism sector and for travelers themselves,…
Documentary fraud is a phenomenon that alerts the Cuban Ministry of the Interior (MININT), due to the almost half a thousand papers that have been seized from Cuban travelers that turned out not to be legitimate and false. As explained in the Round Table, January 20, the Head of Identification, Immigration and Foreigners Departmen of…
The young Cuban Andy Rencurrel, 30 years old, was stabbed to death last Friday, February 11, in the neighborhood of Luyanó, belonging to the Havana municipality of Diez de Octubre. According to the independent media 14yMedio, neighbors of the neighborhood said that Andy was installing cables for satellite dishes and that he was stabbed in…
Cuban singer Suylen Milanés, daughter of Pablo Milanés, died this Sunday, January 30, at 5:20 a.m., in Havana, at the age of 50, due to a cerebral edema. Suylen had been in the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery for several days and was reported serious and brain dead, after suffering a stroke last Thursday,…
Cuban diver Anisley Garcia is expected to arrive in the Russian city of Kazan in early February, after being invited to train at the international water sports center located there. The queen of ornamental diving at the recent I Pan American Youth Games Cali 2021 will spend a year in Russia, as announced by the…
The 30th edition of the Havana International Book Fair, scheduled to be held from February 10 to 20, was postponed to April, the Cuban Ministry of Culture announced. At the proposal of the Cuban Book Institute, the institution also decided to postpone the Fair’s schedule in the country’s different provinces. According to a press release,…
Cuba’s Ministry of Economy and Planning (MEP) approved on Thursday, January 20, 148 new applications for the creation of economic agents. Of these, 147 are MSMEs (micro, small and medium-sized enterprises), 146 private and one state-owned, and one non-agricultural cooperative. Through the Telegram platform, the Economic Actors Channel, of the MEP, reported that 1,619 economic…