Choice medical services signs agreement with Cubanacan Turismo y Salud, Cubas health tourism leader

Choice Medical Services has arranged for an uninsured Georgia man to go to Cuba for low-cost medical care. He is expected to arrive in Cuba by early September for orthopedic surgery. Separately, Choice has signed an agreement with Cubanacan Turismo Y Salud (Cubanacan Tourism & Health), that allows Choice to provide access to Cuba's leading hotels and resorts for use by its patients. Read More

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Developing of Cubas biotechnology is up and going

This scientific activity yields a number of products that by far contribute to ensure health quality for the population at the time its the second export line in the country. Read More

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Cuba-ALADI relations extolled

Being an ALADI member has allowed us to improve the preferential access of our exports to the markets of the region, get better conditions for the inputs we need, and create an atmosphere of trust and understanding in our trade relations with the member countries Read More

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Cuban province set to become petrochemical complex for the Caribbean

The most notable aspect of that cooperation is precisely the opening of an Economic Association to strengthen agreements on energy security being developed by the ALBA. Read More

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USDA announces sales to Cuba

Private exporters reported to USDA export sales of 100,000 metric tons of hard red winter wheat for delivery to Cuba during the 2007/2008 marketing year. The marketing year for wheat began June 1. Read More

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Eastern cuban pipe factory boosts water projects

HolgPlast has a production capacity to deliver about ten thousand tons per year of pipes of different diameters within the range between 90 and 355 millimeters in diameter in one of its extruders, and from 400 millimeters up to 1,000 millimeters in the other high-density polyethylene extrusion machine. Read More

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Russia and Cuba agree on purchase of five russian aircraft

A memorandum of understanding was signed at the MAKS-2007 air show on the delivery of two Tu-204 and three An-148 planes to Cuba. Read More

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Obama calls for easing Cuba embargo, lifting travel restrictions for family

If elected, the Illinois senator would lift restrictions imposed by the Bush administration and allow Cuban-Americans to visit their relatives more frequently, as well as ease limits on the amount of money they can send to their families. Read More

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Camagüey reports remarkable growth in egg production

Since the poultry industry began a gradual recovery three years ago, the egg production grew in a sustainable manner up to 2006 when 104 million units were reported, in the current year the producers foresee to compute a total of over 120 million eggs. Read More

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Washington fines Travel Company for booking trips to Cuba

American online travel company Travelocity has been fined $182,750 by the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) for booking trips between the United States and Cuba in violation of the trade blockade enforced by the US government against the island for more than four decades. Read More

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