Business & Economy

Here is the list of the “protein products” available to Havana residents with their ration book for the week of January 27-31. It also includes a preview of some food items that will be available in February.

Reports on shortages of personal hygiene products such as deodorant and toothpaste made their way to the front page of Cuba’s official newspaper Granma last week.

Refills for prepaid cell phones and payment of telephone bills via the Internet will be available to Cubans starting this week, announced the official website Cubadebate, citing ETECSA as its source.

The following is the list of the products available to Havana residents with their ration book during the week of January 20-26.

A former British MP and Treasury Minister has made a deal to invest in Cuban coffee farming, reports the Telegraph on Thursday. Businessman Phillip Oppenheim will invest some US $4 million over five years in a coffee growing community in southeastern Cuba.

A new law governing self-employment has been published in Cuba’s Official Gazette, the daily Granma reported today (Jan. 15). Law No. 315 spells out the punishments to be handed out to individuals who do not observe the regulations set for “non-state activities.”

Unproductive and/or inefficient state-run enterprises were warned that they could be shut down or turned over to self-employed workers if they didn’t mend their ways. The warning came in an article Monday in the Communist Party daily Granma.

Here is the list of the products available to Havana residents with their ration book during the week of January 13-19.