Business & Economy

The Canadian group of experts with Familles d’Aujourd’hui (Families Today) awarded the Intellichoix Prize in the category of “Caribbean Destination Tourism” to Cuba’s Sol Cayo Guillermo Hotel, which is located in the keys to the north of the island.

Clinical trials of Cuban biotechnology products for cancer treatment are being performed today in 12 countries, said Agustin Lage, the director of the Center of Molecular Immunology, when he spoke with the Prensa Latina news agency

The Cuban telephone company (ETECSA) announced that as of January 1, 2013, it will suspend collect-call service to Spain “for commercial reasons.”

The introduction of Vietnamese engineered technological improvements in the cultivation of rice has resulted in yield increases of 30 percent in areas where these were applied in the central Cuban province of Cienfuegos.

Capital repair has been completed in Sancti Spiritus Province on the Casilda-Trinidad-Meyer railroad line, which is a vital link for connecting the Ingenios Valley and the Escambray mountain range.

Specialists at the Hermanos Saiz University, in the western province of Pinar del Rio, have presented their new product: FAPIL, a new natural plant insecticide.

Cuba has a population of 11,163,934 people, according to preliminary data from the Census of the Population and Housing, presented at the last 2012 session of the Council of Ministers this past Friday.

According to figures provided on Friday by Cuban Minister of Economy and Planning, Adel Yzquierdo, the island will end 2012 with a growth rate of 3.1 percent in its Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

The Cuban government announced today that it will repeal a law passed under former President Fidel Castro in 2000 that imposed a 10 percent tax on every phone call made between the island and the United States.