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The country registered almost one million visitor arrivals in January

The Union of Cuban Journalists of Villa Clara announced the winner of the 'Roberto González Quesada' provincial prize, unanimously awarded by the jury to Abel Falcón Curí, journalist, anchor and programme director of the radio station CMHW

Reginald Lord is the new labour commissioner, after Valerie Thomas resigned after 4 months in the job

The escalation of gang violence has led to the closure of a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Cite Soleil district of Port-au-Prince

Out of a total of 118 applications, 20 fishing loans were approved for the purchase of two dugouts and 12 engines under the Fleet Expansion Programme launched in June 2022

State authorities have closed the Superior Council of Private Enterprise - the country's largest private business association - therefore shutting down numerous enterprise bank accounts and causing great distress among entrepreneurs

The country has now extended its protected ocean area to over 54% of its total waters, to fortify the preservation of valuable marine ecosystems, endangered species, and essential fishing resources located in its territorial waters

As part of the 10th anniversary of former leader Hugo Chavez’s death, who boosted cooperation with Russian oil, government officials met with their Russian counterparts to boost crude oil production and seek new business opportunities

Two First Nations have reached an agreement with Ontario to build a road to potential mining sites in the Ring of Fire area, about 500 km north of Thunder Bay, thought to be rich in critical minerals for electric vehicle batteries

The damage caused by the road of the construction site of the wall at the border with Haiti will be unrecoverable, said the Natural Sciences Commission: the disrespect of environmental regulations puts at risk crucial wetland area Laguna Saladillo

The Surinamese Red Cross has honoured local entrepreneur Hemradj Dassasingh for having donated blood for the 100th time

During the country’s celebration of Women’s Month, the government announced that it will officially eliminate the General Sales Tax on all women’s sanitary products, now being classified as part of the basic supplies of a household

The government is currently working on a plan to fully industrialise lithium by the end of this year, by carefully studying and selecting the companies that will be extracting and processing the good for its commercialisation in the next years