Seventeen medical doctors have returned home to the Solomon Islands, after graduating from medical schools in Cuba. The group consists of four female and 13 male doctors.... More
Latin American governments have slammed Washington's migratory policy towards Cuba. In a letter addressed to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, nine Latin American governments have asked the U.S. government to revise its migratory policy, which they say encourages disorderly, insecure and irregular migratory flows of Cuban citizens into the U.S.... More
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will arrive on Wednesday, August 31st, at the Santa Clara airport aboard the first regular commercial flight connecting Cuba and the United States in more than 50 years.... More
Education ministry officials have toured all Cuban provinces checking preparations for school year beginning this September 5th.... More
In the United States, IFCO (the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization) and Pastors for Peace, which have been organizing friendship caravans to Cuba in opposition to the U.S. blockade since 1992, has been informed by the Internal Revenue Service, the IRS, it is being stripped of its tax-exempt status. ... More
Angel Vidal, director of the National Company of Educational Supplies and Distribution, said that books and materials are ready of the upcoming school year, which gets started on Monday, September 5th. ... More
Cuba's ambassador in Ecuador, Rafael Dausa, gave a lecture Friday at the Technical University Luis Vargas, in the province of Esmeraldas, on the current state of relations between Cuba and the United States. ... More
The U.S. airline JetBlue will make the first direct commercial flight between the United States and Cuba in more than half a century next Wednesday.... More
The National Bureau of Statistics and Information confirmed that during the first half of 2016, Cuba reached the figure of 2.1 million visitors, for an increase of nearly 12 percent compared to the same period last year.... More
Unilever is set to open for business in Cuba next year after Dutch government officials rubber-stamped a joint venture with the state firm Intersuchel, reports the Dutch website The Patriarch.... More
Representatives of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, and the government of President Juan Manuel Santos have signed an historic peace accord during a ceremony in Havana. ... More
Haitian President Jocelerme Privert met with university students coming to Cuba for scholarships in the framework of the island's education cooperation with Haiti.... More
In Puerto Rico, Banco Popular, Inc. (BPOP) has announced that it is the second financial institution in the United States and the first in Puerto Rico to enable their credit cards for use in Cuba.... More
Farmers from Ciego de Avila in central Cuba will plant 2,500 hectares of pineapples through the end of 2018, with a view to both domestic consumption and export.... More
President Raul Castro met Monday in Havana with visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. ... More
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