The Razones de Cuba platform put into circulation a video with the answers given yesterday by playwright Yunior García to the foreign press accredited on the island

The opinions range from outright opposition by religious communities and conservative groups that reject unions between people of the same sex, to the distrust of homosexual couples in disagreement with having their rights submitted to a referendum.

During the second ministerial conference of that international platform, the Cuban ambassador to China stressed the importance of the group to expand and diversify collaboration in this sector and collectively overcome the challenges of global energy development.

The entity, attached to the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, intends to “increase the effectiveness of the public policies adopted in the country,” according to official sources.

Until last October 14, 23,920,914 doses against COVID-19 had been applied on the island, a figure that includes both mass vaccination, as well as health intervention processes, intervention studies and clinical trials developed in the country, according to official sources.

The pleasure boat, with eight crew members, arrived in the bay of Havana from Varadero beach resort, according to PL.

According to the company, the search project together with the Cuban state company GeoMinera resulted from the discovery of 69 meters with a content of eight grams of gold per ton, and veins where the concentration is up to 109 g/t of gold metal and 1,730 g/t silver.

A spokeswoman for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told the EFE agency this Saturday that people who have a combination of two (different) doses of a double dose vaccine that has been cleared by the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) or is on the WHO emergency use list will be considered vaccinated with the complete scheme.

The secretary general of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), Teresa Amarelle Boué stressed that the norm referring to working women is “a sample of the political will of the Cuban State to achieve the advancement of women.”

This was reported this Thursday by Minister of Economy and Planning Alejandro Gil, who, however, acknowledged that it would be a lower growth than planned for the year — over 6% — and that it is based on the drop of around 11% of the GDP in 2020.

It will allow access through a mobile application to the Cuban business network, and will allow business owners “to update and enrich their data, offer all the information that allows them to advertise their goods, services, projects, needs or businesses,” said the vice president of the ANEC, Ramón Labañino.

Inocente Núñez, co-president of Habanos S.A., thanked the contribution of the company’s exclusive distributors, who make up a network present in more than 150 countries and were the promoters of the initiative.

The official who directs the operation in the Guantánamo municipality of Maisí explained that in this first trip, 350 of the 421 migrants who currently remain in the easternmost territory of the island will be transferred.,

The Canadian company, with 8,600 rooms in Cuba, manages 21 hotels in the main Cuban tourist destinations, such as Havana, Varadero, Cayo Santa María, Cayo Coco and Holguín, where it will open all its facilities.

About 40 convalescents between the ages of two and 18 are participating in the first part of the study, which will evaluate the safety of the Cuban drug developed by the Finlay Vaccine Institute (IFV).

Frank Madan and Raico Santos will play in Venezuela while Yoen Socarrás will play in the Dominican Republic.

The leader of the venture, Deivi Carmona, explained that the software will allow the creation of a central repository of infected patients’ chest X-rays, and will allow the development of artificial intelligence methods that improve the quality of the image and the extraction of information from it, in addition to recognizing the quantification and classification of lesions.

The measure gives the green light to the creation of new economic actors, who can now proceed to establish legal entities in order to carry out their activities.

Starting this Wednesday, physical exercises can be carried out on public spaces and in gyms, including those with artificial ventilation. The opening of beaches and swimming pools was also announced, the latter at 50% of their capacity.

The opinions and concerns of the population will also be taken into account, and they can be sent by email to familia@minjus.gob.cu.

The drug was developed by the enterprise Laboratorios AICA in conjunction with the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), based on blood donations from convalescents of the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.

Playwright Yunior García Aguilera, one of the most visible faces among the artists who on last November 27 gathered outside the Cuban Ministry of Culture, this Tuesday made public a request to demonstrate peacefully, signed by a group of “about twenty citizens” and handed over to the government of Havana. “The march will be against violence, to demand that all the rights of all Cubans be respected, for the release of political prisoners and for the solution of our differences through democratic and peaceful means,” read the letter shared on social media. https://twitter.com/ArchipielagoCu/status/1440698822141775876?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1440698822141775876%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Factivistas-cubanos-solicitan-al-gobierno-autorizacion-para-marcha-pacifica-y-civica%2F The call, released on the Facebook Archipiélago group, created by Yunior himself, is addressed to the provincial and municipal authorities of the Cuban capital and explains that the “peaceful and civic” mobilization would be held from 2:00 a.m. in the afternoon of Saturday, November 20 and would have an estimated attendance of 5,000 people. However, one of the requests of the letter is that anyone who is interested and complies with the call can join. In addition, it requests that the government protect the protesters from those who try to prevent the mobilization, as well as allowing coverage by the national and foreign press, official or independent....

The financing will come through a donation from the Franco-Cuban Equity Fund and its first outlay this year will make it possible to acquire equipment and the remodeling of production and research complexes, as explained this Wednesday by the French ambassador to Cuba, Patrice Paoli.

The Spanish Iberostar hotel chain is seeking to promote Cuba as a tourist destination, in the face of the upcoming high season and the reopening of the Cuban borders next November after the impasse caused by COVID-19. To do this, it announced the reopening of 16 of the 17 hotels it operates in the Caribbean country, as well as the inauguration of another in Cayo Cruz, in the northern keys of the island, in which emphasis will be placed on the quality and variety of the services and health measures to ensure the safety and comfort of guests. Iberostar’s marketing director in Havana, Alexei Torres, told the press this Tuesday that the new stage will maintain the health protocols put into practice during the pandemic, which include limited capacity, reinforcement of protection measures, enhancement of activities in open spaces and online interaction mechanisms, and the presence of a medical and epidemiological team in each hotel. Travelers, for their part, must comply with the requirements recently announced by the Cuban authorities and that will be applied as of mid-November, which make border protocols more flexible, although they require visitors to present a certificate of vaccination against coronavirus or a negative PCR...

After the U.S. president’s speech to the UN General Assembly, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said that Biden “lacks moral authority” to promote initiatives in favor of peace, and criticized him for “dividing the world between those who submit to him and those who defend with dignity their sovereign right to self-determination.”