In tight integration path, the leaders of the Caribbean Community and Cuba will evaluate today in this city how to, while maintaining fruitful political and diplomatic ties, increase economic and trade exchanges.

With the welcoming remarks by Cuban President Raul Castro began in this capital the Fifth CARICOM-Cuba Summit this Monday morning.

Cuban president Raul Castro received the Caribbean Heads of State and Government to begin the Fifth Caricom-Cuba Summit in Havana this Monday.

Bahamas´ Prime Minister Perry Gladstone stressed Cuba´s role in pursuing regional integration.

Trinidad-tobago´s foreign minister Winston Chandarbhan said that Monday´s Caricom-Cuba summit is a platform to boost full regional integration.

Cuban President Raul Castro and the pro-tempore president of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Brown held official talks in Havana.

Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, held official talks on Sunday at Revolution Building with Freundel Stuart, Prime Minister of Barbados, who is on an official visit to Cuba and heads the Barbadian delegation to the 5th CARICOM-Cuba Summit.

Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, held official talks on Sunday morning with Gaston A. Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda and President Pro Tempore of the Caribbean Community, who is on an official visit to Cuba and heads his delegation to the 5th CARICOM – Cuba Summit.

Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, received Doctor Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada, at the Palacio de la Revolucion (Revolution Building), who is on an official visit to Cuba and heads the Grenadian delegation to the 5th CARICOM – Cuba Summit.

Wreaths sent by Fidel Castro, historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, and Raul Castro, president of the councils of State and Ministers, were placed on Sunday at the Pantheon to Internationalists, where the mortal remains of 83 combatants rest in this city.

Heads of State or government and other personalities of the Caribbean that will attend the 5th CARICOM-Cuba Summit, toured on Sunday in this capital the National Zoo, one of the largest in the region, with 340 hectares.

Heads of State of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) joined on Sunday the tribute paid by the Cuban people to General Antonio Maceo, on the occasion of the 118th anniversary of his death in combat, and to those who laid down their lives in other lands of the world.

Cuban President Raul Castro presided over on Saturday a ceremony to commemorate the 118 anniversary of the fall in action of Independence leader Antonio Maceo and to pay homage to Cuban internationalists fighters.

Army General Raul Castro, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and President of the councils of State and Ministers of Cuba, presided over the political meeting and military ceremony on the occasion of the 118th anniversary of the death in combat of General Antonio Maceo.

Cuba continues to be a great example to those in the Caribbean who wish a better future, said on Saturday in this capital Freundel J. Stuart, Prime Minister and Minister of National Security, Public Service and Urban Development of Barbados.