Cubana de Aviación to resume flights between Havana and Holguín as of March 15

Cubana de Aviación to resume flights between Havana and Holguín as of March 15

Cubana de Aviación airline will resume domestic flights between Havana and Holguín as from next Tuesday, March 15, 2022, the company announced on its social networks. Flights will have two weekly frequencies, Tuesdays and Saturdays, departing from Havana at 10:30 in the morning. The return from Holguín will be at 1:30 in the afternoon. Interested…

Fire affects thermoelectric plant in Mariel, Cuba

Fire affects thermoelectric plant in Mariel, Cuba

The newspaper El Artemiseño reported through its Facebook page that on the night of March 7, 2022 a fire broke out at the Máximo Gómez Báez thermoelectric plant in Mariel. The Fire Brigade was mobilized throughout the province to minimize the damage in the shortest possible time. According to sources from the Ministry of Energy…

Small World: sending money from Europe and the United States to Cuba

Small World: sending money from Europe and the United States to Cuba

Many people are wondering how to send money from Europe, the United States or anywhere else in the world, to their families in Cuba. Since the suspension of Western Union services for many Cubans it has been difficult to be able to help their families with remittances. It is not always easy to send money…

Ciego de Avila community regrets 14-year-old girl run over by a train

Ciego de Avila community regrets 14-year-old girl run over by a train

The municipality of Ciego de Avila, head territory of the province of the same name, lamented Thursday the death of a 14-year-old girl who was run over by a train covering the Ciego de Avila-Baragua route. According to the Facebook group Accidentes, Buses y Camiones por más experiencia y menos víctimas (Accidents, Buses and Trucks…

Havana, Cuba: travelers to be sampled for covid-19 in their municipalities

Havana, Cuba: travelers to be sampled for covid-19 in their municipalities

As of this Wednesday, January 19, 2022, PCR tests and antigen tests for those people who will travel permanently or temporarily outside Cuba will be carried out only in their municipalities of residence (temporary or permanent), announced Dr. Yadira Olivera Nodarse, provincial director of the Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology in Havana. As usual…

U.S. airlines inform new health requirements to fly from Cuba

U.S. airlines inform new health requirements to fly from Cuba

The U.S. airline Southwest informed that as of February 1, all passengers bound for the United States must fill out an online health certificate upon their departure from Havana. Passengers who do not have it completed will not be allowed to fly, according to the Empresa Cubana de Aeropuertos y Servicios Aeroportuarios S.A (ECASA), on…

Accident on Autopista Nacional leaves two dead and four injured when car breaks in half

Accident on Autopista Nacional leaves two dead and four injured when car breaks in half

Two people were killed and four injured in a traffic accident that occurred on Wednesday afternoon, January 12, on the National Highway, near Placetas, in Villa Clara province, Cuba. The first reports on social networks indicate that the tragic incident occurred between 3 and 4 o’clock in the afternoon at kilometer 288 in the town…

Cuba confirms 2788 new cases of coronavirus reported today

Cuba confirms 2788 new cases of coronavirus reported today

Cuba confirms today, January 12, 2788 cases of coronavirus reported throughout the national territory. The Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) said that after taking 40,736 samples for surveillance during the day, 2788 were positive, a slight increase over the previous day. Minsap also clarified in its daily report that no deaths were reported in the…