Several panels and talks about the transcendence of the historical facts leading up to the celebration of Cuban Culture Day on October 20 are being held in the city of Holguin.

With the return to the classrooms this Monday of final-year students in several provinces and towns, Cuba will take another step towards the resumption of in-person education to finish the 2020-2021 school year in General Education.

The following is a statement issued by the Cuban Trade Unions:

Members of the Cuba Academy of Sciences stressed the need to keep on the integration achieved under the COVID-19 pandemic which allowed the development of local vaccines, new medications and treatment protocols.

In line with the international conventions to which Cuba is part, the Preliminary Draft of the Code of Families strengthens the country's will to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women, to ensure the rights of children and adolescents and people with disabilities.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, highlighted today on Twitter Cuba's progress in the gradual recovery of its economy, despite the impact of the COVID-19 and the tightening of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade.
Rodriguez Parrilla underlined the strengths of a diverse productive network and the improved participation of entrepreneurship.

Cuban deputy foreign minister Anayansi Rodriguez Camejo and the permanent undersecretary of the UK foreign ministry, Philip Barton, held a virtual meeting on Thursday, where they reaffirmed the willingness to strengthen bilateral relations.

The National Bureau of Standards (ONN) celebrates today World Standards Day by evoking one of the scientific contributions of Commander Ernesto Che Guevara, who as Minister of Industries was the architect of this field in Cuba.

The National Botanical Garden of Cuba will reopen its doors to the public on Sunday, October 17, and will offer its services on weekends.

Leaders of the permanent working commissions and other officials of the National Assembly of People's Power will be visiting today the provinces of Cienfuegos and Ciego de Avila to meet with local delegates, presidents of popular councils, commissions and the population at large.

At a meeting today of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez stressed the importance of cooperation, solidarity and integration to guarantee the sustainable economic development of the member countries.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez hailed today on Twitter the incorporation of the first medium-sized private enterprise in the country, namely the Dofleini Software computer project.

Among the efforts made by Cuban scientists to develop and produce our own COVID-19 vaccines, we cannot fail to recognize that they made it possible to immunize the pediatric population, which paved the way for the reopening of schools throughout the country today, after an almost two-year-long shutdown imposed by the pandemic.

Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel will participate this Thursday in the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council.

Army General Raul Castro Ruz received on Wednesday the vice president of the Government of the Russian Federation and co-chairman of the Russian-Cuban Intergovernmental Commission for Economic-Commercial and Scientific-Technical Collaboration, Yuri Ivanovich Borisov, who is visiting Cuba as a special envoy of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin.