Cuba and the United States expressed their willingness to keep on with their bilateral dialog on the expropriations of US property after 1959 and the damage inflicted on the Cuban people by the over-50-year US blockade of the island.

The Sixth Session of the Cuban Parliament´s Eight Legislature will be held December 29, at Havana´s Conventions Palace.

The Cuban population still does not have a clear perception of the economic value of water that is supplied and its annual consumption currently at some 9 billion cubic meters, said Ines Maria Chapman, President of the National Institute of Water Resources (INRH).

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.