Today is Cuba-Caricom Day, a date established at the first joint summit held 2002 in Havana to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Havana and a group of Caribbean nations, which got rid of the colonial rule in the 1970s.

Jasmine Girvan, wife of prominent Jamaican academician, economist and political scientist Norman Girvan received on Monday in this capital, on behalf of her husband, the Friendship Medal given posthumously by the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba.

President Raul Castro sent Venezuela´s Nicolas Maduro a message of support following the results of Sunday´s legislative elections, in which the Venezuelan opposition won majority of votes.

The second secretary of Cuba´s Communist Party Central Committee, Jose Ramon Machado, presided over the provincial assembly of the organization in Havana, as part of a process prior to the 7th Congress of the Party.

Costa Rica´s President Luis Guillermo Solis will pay a visit to Cuba December 15 and 16 to further bilateral relations with Havana, the Costa Rican presidency announced.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) acknowledged that Cuba implements different national strategies for soil protection, with encouraging results for its development.

The Cuban embassy in Beijing and high-ranking Chinese military officers stressed on Friday the mutually beneficial unfolding of bilateral relations between the armed forces of both countries.

To say that Cuban medicine takes the name of Finlay is not a superficial affirmation, or a phrase that is forced into notebooks: Cuban medicine includes many others, but Finlay has a significant trademark including Latin America.

Roads that lead to the world famous Varadero Beach Resort are as important as the tourism complex. Work is currently underway to renovate the image aimed at improving the first site for those that tour the peninsula.

The Cuban futsal team will face Peru today after winning its first two games against first division local clubs in its training tour through the South American country.

The governor of the U.S. state of Texas, Greg Abbott, accompanied by a business delegation from his country, met on Wednesday in Havana with Deputy Jose Luis Toledo, president of the Permanent Committee for Constitutional and Legal Affairs of the National Assembly of the People's Power (ANPP).

The Vice-president of the Cuban Council of Ministers, Ricardo Cabrisas, received the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, who is on a working visit to the island since Monday, November 30.

All Cuban public health workers will develop different activities today on the occasion of the Day of Latin American Medicine and the 182nd anniversary of the birth of the eminent Cuban scientist Carlos J. Finlay.

Texas governor, Republican Greg Abbott, toured the Special Development Zone at the western Cuban harbor of Mariel, plus its industrial free zone project, all at 45 kilometers from Havana.

Canadian activist Nazir Rizvi, who heads the Canada-Cuba Solidarity Association in Vancouver, was granted the Cuban Friendship Medal on Tuesday in recognition of his work in that supportive organization.