Fire shuts down key fuel storage facility in Matanzas
CUBA STANDARD — Adding to Cuba’s energy woes, a crude oil storage tank at the tanker base in…
Key business figure dies of heart attack at age 62
CUBA STANDARD — In what some suggest is a political game changer for Cuba, Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Calleja…
Canadian company signs big hotel deal
CUBA STANDARD — Betting on pent-up demand, a Canadian company signed a 10-year deal that makes it Cuba’s…
Cuba advocacy group appoints new leader
CUBA STANDARD — The Center for Democracy in the Americas (CDA) appointed a new executive director. María José…
Private business expands to European market
CUBA STANDARD — Havana-based fashion label Clandestina opened an e-commerce website catering to European customers, with fulfillment and…
Cuba to send doctors to Mexico
CUBA STANDARD — Scoring a breakthrough for Cuba’s medical exports in difficult times, the health ministry of Mexico…
Biden administration takes back some Trump sanctions
CUBA STANDARD — Surprising most Cuba watchers and political players, Joe Biden unilaterally took back some of the…
Amid rising cash flow, Sherritt plans 20% boost of nickel output
CUBA STANDARD — In what company CEO Leon Binedell hailed as “the best financial metrics since 2014,” Sherritt…
Cuba fills widening electric gap with more powerships
CUBA STANDARD — During a visit to the shipyard of a floating power plant operator in Turkey, Cuba’s…
Ruling against cruise lines may send chill to other U.S. travel
CUBA STANDARD — Rejecting the cruise lines’ argument they engaged in lawful travel, a federal judge in Miami…
Canadian company says it has opened a remittance channel
CUBA STANDARD — As the Biden administration has failed to lift sanctions imposed by the Trump administration that…
Cuba nudges WHO over slow vaccine endorsement process
CUBA STANDARD — Cuba will present a dossier of its COVID-19 vaccines to the World Health Organization (WHO),…
Sherritt reports first profitable quarter since 2014
CUBA STANDARD — Reporting net income of CDN$14.8 million for the fourth quarter of 2021, Sherritt International Corp.…
South Korea approves Cuban medicine
CUBA STANDARD — In a rare breakthrough into a developed market, the South Korean pharmaceutical regulatory agency approved…
Cuba offers Biden a channel to unblock remittances
CUBA STANDARD — Apparently offering the Biden administration a way to resume the billion-dollar flow of remittances by…