Business & Economy

So far Canada has been the largest source of visitors to Cuba, with more than 820,000 visitors; followed by England, Italy and Spain. Behind those three countries are France, Germany, Argentina, Mexico, Russia and Venezuela.

Production has been at a standstill since August at the bathroom fixture plant run by the Empresa de Ceramica Blanca in San Jose, in the province of Mayabeque. A delay in the import of gypsum has prevented the production of 20,000 hospital fixtures.

The Cuban government issued a report on state spending for the campaign against the “Aedes aegypti” mosquito, the transmitter of the dengue plague that affects the Cuban people.

The upcoming session of Cuba’s National Assembly of People’s Power (parliament), scheduled for December 23, will focus its discussions on economic and judicial issues.

Orlando Lugo Fonte, the president of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP), revealed today in an interview with the Granma newspaper that the country has still not paid between $2.5 million and $3 million owed to its farmers.

Cubans products to counter cancer and diabetes are being presented at the International Workshop on the Design and Conducting of Clinical Trials, which is concluding its sessions today at the Havana Convention Center.

Sugar cane harvests this season in Brazil are expected to decline by 8.4 percent, which will be beneficial for the Cuban economy, where significant changes have been made to its sugar industry.

After 25 years of operation, the Cuban company Astilleros del Caribe will be making capital repairs to its containment embankment, whose holding capacity is 4,500 tons.

The Cuban telephone and telecommunications company (ETECSA) is, for the first time, offering to include self-employed workers in the yellow pages of its telephone directory.