Home - News from Havana

German Habano Cigars fair held in Berlin

HAVANA, Sep 21 (PL) Several leading export products represented Cuba at the German Habano Cigars fair, held this weekend, diplomatic sources reported on Monday. Read more

21/09/2020/by Havana Live

News

Cuba uses ozone therapy to fight Covid-19

HAVANA, Sep 21 Cuba today uses ozone therapy as a complementary action in the fight against Covid-19, a modality approved within the Natural and Traditional Medicine of the Ministry of Public Health.The largest of the Antilles also registers…

News

Japan to donate medical equipment to Cuba

HAVANA, Sept. 19th Japan will donate medical equipment to Cuba to deal with the spread of COVID-19 on the Caribbean island, as part of the Japanese government’s Non-Reimbursable Financial Cooperation program.The signing ceremony for the donation,…

News

Cuban enterprises will receive tax benefits for increased exports

HAVANA, Sept. 18th Cuba approved a package of tax benefits to encourage exportable productions from both state and private Cuban and foreign enterprises that operate on the island.Resolution 222/2020 of the Ministry of Finance and Prices applies…

News

First boy registered in Cuba as the son of two mothers

HAVANA, Sep 18 (PL ) Paulo Cesar, a 13-month-old boy, is the first minor registered in the Civil Registry of Cuba as the son of two persons of the same sex: Cuban psychologist Dachelys Valdes and US anthropologist Hope Bastian.Recently,…

News

A monastery reopens in Cuba after 125 years — and a hurricane threatens to close it for good

HAVANA, Sept 17th Maria Lozano - ACN The night of January 27, 2019, is one that Fray Gabriel Avila Luna will not easily forget; there were moments when he thought it might have been his last. Winds of close to 200 miles an hour ripped through…

News

Cuba, Japan hold talks on joint cooperation projects

HAVANA, Sep 16 (PL) Directors of Japan's International Cooperation Agency (JICA) held talks with Cuba's Ambassador to Japan Miguel Angel Ramirez about joint projects aimed at the country's socio-economic development, the Foreign Ministry reported…

News

Telmary and Habana Sana in online concert from Cuba

HAVANA, Sep 15 (PL) Cuban rapper Telmary and her band Habana Sana (Healthy Havana) will offer an online concert on Tuesday from Havana, organized by the Ministry of Culture (MINCULT)Telmary and Habana Sana took the stage in 2013 and since…

News, Noticas

An elevator of the Meliá Habana failed and causes serious injuries

HAVANA, Sept. 15. An elevator fell from the sixth floor of the Meliá Habana hotel on Saturday morning with a flight attendant of the Cubana de Aviación airline, who survived and was rushed to the Calixto García hospital with serious injuries. The…

News

Cuban-American Claver-Carone to chair Inter-American Development Bank

HAVANA, Sept. 14th Cuban-American Mauricio Claver-Carone, advisor for the Americas to U.S. President Donald Trump and defender of the rollback in relations between Cuba and the U.S., was elected this Saturday as the new president of the Inter-American…

News

Sarah Willis in Havana with Mozart y Mambo!

HAVANA, September 14, (By Debra Lew Harder) Sarah Willis, the first female brass player of the Berlin Philharmonic, is a musician after my own heart—she loves to dance. Ms. Willis’s affinity for Latin dance, especially mambo, led…

News

Cuba punches above weight with ‘white coat army’ during pandemic

HAVANA, sept.14 (Reuters) At the start of Togo's coronavirus outbreak, the small West African nation welcomed a team of 12 Cuban healthcare workers to tend to sufferers of the virus, boost its laboratory testing and help improve its hospital…

News

Young Cuban designs video game that recreates potential vaccine of Cuba against COVID19

HAVANA, Sep 13th Young Cuban Sitting for hours in front of his home computer, a 12-year-old Cuban boy designed a video game that bets on the success of a potential Cuban vaccine to counter the deadly effect of the new coronavirus.Five months…

News

Havana’s cultural life struggles to survive COVID-19 pandemic

HAVANA, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) Ailen Piquero, 20, a university student from Havana's outskirts, is eager for a Saturday night at Cuban Art Factory, the city's most popular cultural venue, located in El Vedado district, famous for its hectic activity…

News

Cuba shuts down interprovincial transportation due to new COVID-19 fears

HAVANA, sept. 12th Cuban state media reported on Saturday (Sept 12) interprovincial transportation would be shut down and a curfew in Havana extended until the end of the month as a surge in COVID-19 cases in the capital spreads to other…

News

Havana Governor Prolongs Curfew Until September 30

HAVANA, Sept. 12th Governor of the Cuban capital of Havana Reinaldo Garcia Zapata has prolonged the coronavirus-linked curfew until September 30 over the remaining difficult epidemiological situation.In late August, the governor introduced the…

News

Central Bank of Cuba denies rumors about monetary unification

HAVANA, Sep 10 (PL ) The Central Bank of Cuba (BCC) today denied the supposed beginning of the monetary unification as of October 1, 2020 in the country, information that for days has given rise to rumours on social networks.In its statement,…

News

Organic farming mushrooms in Cuba amid COVID-19

HAVANA, Sept. 10th (by Yosley Carrero) Located some 350 km east of Havana in the central province of Sancti Spiritus, Fernando Casimiro’s Finca del Medio Organic Farm has become one of the country’s most successful family-run businesses.Thousands…

News

Cuba plans first official peso devaluation since 1959 revolution

HAVANA, sept. 10th Cuba will soon devalue the peso's one-to-one exchange rate with the U.S. dollar for the first time since the 1959 revolution, according to three sources who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the subject. As…

News

2000 peso fines for people who don’t keep social distance

HAVANA, Sept. 10th The Havana authorities will impose fines of 2,000 pesos on people who don’t keep a physical distance of at least one meter in the lines,said the coordinator of Inspection, Control and Hygiene of the government in the Cuban…

News

Cubans celebrate their saints despite outbreak of COVID-19

HAVANA, Sept. 9th (AP) Hundreds of Cubans took to the streets of Havana on Monday and Tuesday despite an outbreak of the new coronavirus to ask the virgins of Regla and de la Caridad, who also represent powerful Afro-Cuban deities, for health…

News

Aeroflot resumes flight Moscow Havana the 15. September

HAVANA, sep. 8th (ACN) Cuba and Russia hold negotiations on the possible resumption of the regular flights of the Russian airline Aeroflot that connects Moscow with Havana, starting on September 15, according to the Embassy of Cuba in the Eurasian…

News

Monetary union in Cuba, when there is smoke…

HAVANA, Sep 8 (P L) The monetary reform in Cuba, with its complementary measures and its impact on the domestic life, has raised comments and debates among people, after several reports published on national media.The comments resulted from…

News

Cuba take’s at least 80 athletes to the Olympic Games in Tokyo

HAVANA, Sept. 6th (PL) Cuba aspires to take at least 80 athletes to the 32nd Olympic Games in Tokyo, after the event was rescheduled for the summer of 2021 due to the new Coronavirus pandemic, explained Ariel Saínz, Vice President of the…

News

Transfermóvil reaches one million users

HAVANA, Sep 6th The Cuban payment platform Transfermóvil reached its first million users, according to what José Luis Perdomo, Minister of Communications of Cuba, announced through his Twitter account.Transfermóvil continues to advance…

News

Cuba welcomes first tourists in months

HAVANA, Sept. 6th Cuba rolled out the red carpet on Friday for the first planeload of tourists to arrive on the island in months as it struggles toward post-pandemic new normalcy.The import-dependent country has been plunged into crisis and…

News

Cuba and Russia successfully use technology for oil extraction

HAVANA, Sep 5 The Russian company Zarubezneft in conjunction with the Cuba Petróleo Union (Cupet) are successfully using horizontal well technology in flow mode for oil extraction, a government source highlighted today. Foreign Trade and…

News

Arrival of Canadian tourists to Cuba begins

HAVANA, Sep 4 (PL ) The arrival today of the first flight with Canadian tourists to this country reactivates the presence of travellers from the first tourist market in Cuba, under well-defined health protocols to face Covid-19. The tour operator…

La Habana se recoge en la primera noche de restricciones

News

Havana is picked up on the first night of restrictions

HAVANA, Sept. 2 The people of Havana know what is at stake. The new month has started under the sign of the restrictions that Havana picks up on the first night of restrictions.The streets this first night of September are deserted. Only the…

News

German Habano Cigars fair held in Berlin

HAVANA, Sep 21 (PL) Several leading export products represented Cuba at the German Habano Cigars fair, held this weekend, diplomatic sources reported on Monday.Brands such as Partagas, Ron Caney, Ron Santiago de Cuba, Ron Vacilon and Ron Havana…

News

A monastery reopens in Cuba after 125 years — and a hurricane threatens to close it for good

News

Cuba, Japan hold talks on joint cooperation projects

News

Telmary and Habana Sana in online concert from Cuba

News, Noticas

An elevator of the Meliá Habana failed and causes serious injuries

News

Cuban-American Claver-Carone to chair Inter-American Development Bank

See all articles

ABOUT US

HAVANA LIVE is a Website with daily coverage that provides cutting-edge information about Cuba and especially about its capital. Through our platform it is possible to have an approach to the most popular arteries, places and protagonists of the Greater Antilles, especially we focus on making visible their cultural heritage, gastronomy, history, events, etc. All with accurate and updated information, a modern and creative design and high quality photos resulting from the work of a small team of professionals.

Recommended by roughguides.com

ABOUT US

Subscribe to the Newsletter

Weather & Forecast