National News

4 May, 2018 Cuba to Apply Bonuses to Electronic Purchase

Cuba advances in the computerization of its society by implementing a bonus for the electronic purchase of products and services in its retail chain, it was reported here today.

4 May, 2018 Cuba Invests in Improving Its Soils

Cuba is working to improve the efficiency of the National Soil Improvement and Conservation Program, which this year includes investments raised to 58.6 million pesos (equal in USD to the official exchange rate), experts of the sector said here today.

3 May, 2018 Cuba Celebrates World Press Freedom Day

With the participation of the President of Latin American Federation of Journalists (FELAP), Juan Carlos Camano, World Press Freedom Day was held in Havana.

3 May, 2018 Cuba Shows its Results in Ocular Health

“Our country has been an example for the world in its participation in the visual recovery of more than three million people,” Carmen Rosa Martinez, National Director of Medical Care of the Ministry of Public Health, said in the Convention Palace of Havana.

3 May, 2018 Cuban Banking Applies Bonus for Using Magnetic Cards

In order to encourage the use of magnetic card as a safe and efficient means of payment, the Cuban banking system implements a bonus to payments made through point-of-sale terminals in stores, for the purchasing its products or services.

2 May, 2018 The Main Fight is against Blockade, Cuban Union Leader Says

“The denunciation of the blockade imposed unilaterally by the United States against Cuba, is currently our main battle,” the Secretary General of the Workers’ Central Union of Cuba (CTC), Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento ratified.

2 May, 2018 Cuba to Host ECLAC Meeting in Havana

A founding member of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Cuba will be responsible for the organization of the thirty-seventh session, from May 7 to 11, based at the Convention Palace of Havana.

2 May, 2018 In Pinar del Rio Proletarian Party

With the presence of the Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, thousands of people marched in Pinar del Rio along the main street of the provincial capital.