Ralph E. Gonsalves, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, considered on Saturday that the 5th CARICOM-Cuba Summit will be a space to renew solidarity between the Caribbean peoples.

Cuba has played an important role in the development of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member nations, with its huge contribution in terms of education and health, declared on Saturday in this capital the Prime Minister of Grenada, Keith Mitchell.

A press room was opened on Thursday night at the Palace of the Revolution to facilitate coverage of the Fifth Caricom-Cuba Summit, where on December 8th Caribbean Heads of State and Government will meet.

Heads of State and Government of the member nations of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and regional organizations , will begin arriving today in this capital to participate on Monday in the Fifth CARICOM-Cuba Summit.

Marc Van Montagu, pioneer of molecular biotechnology in plants in the world, was full of praise for the development reached by the Cuban scientific community in the field of biotechnology.

Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party (CC of the PCC), met on Thursday morning with Medardo Gonzalez, General Secretary of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) of El Salvador, who is in Cuba heading a delegation of that political organization, at the invitation of the PCC.

On the occasion of the 58th anniversary of the creation of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) of Cuba, marked on December 2, Joao Gonzalves, Angola's Minister of Defense, sent a note of congratulations to the Cuban army.

José Luis Di Fabio, representative in Cuba of the Pan American and World Health organizations (PAHO / WHO), sent an acknowledgment to the workers of that sector in the country on the occasion of the Latin American Medicine Day which is celebrated on December 3rd.

Trips of U.S. citizens to Cuba are on the rise in spite of Washington's sanctions against Havana, pointed out on Tuesday an article published on the blog of the editorial page of the New York Times (NYT).

Progress in studies of human and medical genetics in Cuba and in other countries of Latin America and the world will be shown in an international meeting in Havana on December 2-5, which will be attended by over 300 national and foreign delegates.

Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, met on Tuesday afternoon with Denis Sassou Nguesso, President of the Republic of Congo, who is on an official visit to Cuba.

The students with the US Semester at Sea academic program continue to take a first-hand look at Cuban society as they share experiences and play sports games with Cuban youths.

Forty one French tourists were injured in a road accident on Monday as the bus in which they were traveling ran into another vehicle on the national highway in the territory of the south-central province of Cienfuegos.

Cuban President Raul Castro welcomed at Havana´s International Airport the last group of athletes from the victorious sports delegation that participated at the 22nd Central American and Caribbean Games.