Business & Economy

Temperatures will range about 33° C (91° F) reaching 35° C (96° F) on the 23rd and next Monday. The lows in the early mornings will be stable around 24° C (72° F). In addition to the high temperatures the humidity will cause a feeling of greater warmth.

Cuba’s proud sugar industry, once the locomotive of the country’s economy, powerful enough to produce a popular saying (“no sugar, no country”), now struggles to come out of the coma it’s been in for the past decade.

The arrival of tourists to Cuba rose sharply by 15 percent in the first quarter of 2015, after the historic diplomatic rapprochement with the United States, reported dpa news on Thursday.

Cubans will have to start paying attention to what the stickers they put on windows and vehicles actually say – even if they are in English or Chinese. One such sticker has cost three employees a demotion with Viazul.

The Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo arrived in the Cuban capital on Monday heading a large delegation of business people interested in learning firsthand the Cuban reality and making contacts for future business endeavors.

Potatoes have become something of a “luxury” item for millions of Cubans living in provinces where this root vegetable isn’t grown.