Oil and gas exploration were high on the agenda of local and foreign participants at the 11th Earth Sciences Conference, underway in Havana till Friday.

The Abel Santamaría International Airport of the city of Santa Clara began the year’s operations with Lisbon, Portugal―scheduled until September―with a flight carrying 371 passengers from that country.

President Miguel Díaz-Canel met with Cuban health and education professionals based in Honduras and with members of the local Cuba solidarity movement.

The energy transition as a strategy for progress in electricity generation and other fields in Cuba was a major topic for discussion at the XI Convention and Exhibition of Earth Sciences “GEOCIENCIAS 2025”.

A recent study by the Science and Technical Base Unit (UCTB) Suelos Guantanamo in the easternmost province of the same name, identified that salinization is the main soil degrading process in the productive pole of Paraguay, an environmental problem that deteriorates worldwide the quality and yield of crops.

The 11th Convention and Exposition of Earth Sciences (Geosciences 2025) opens today at the Havana Convention Center with important topics to be dealt with on the sustainable exploitation of resources.

After becoming in 2024 the most comprehensive entity of its kind in Cuba due to its productive technical results and efficiency in the fish farming campaign, the Sancti Spiritus Fishing Enterprise (Pescaspir), based in this central city, will host today the national event for the Workers' Day of the sector, a date celebrated every April 8.

A police operation at the La Lima farm, located in Campo Florido, Habana del Este municipality, in the eastern region of Havana, led to the discovery of 16 marijuana plants, along with a jar with seeds and a significant amount of cash, allegedly linked to drug trafficking.

Cuban Revolution leader, former president army general Raul Castro paid homage to Cuban heroine Vilma Espin, his wife and companion in the revolutionary struggle and life, on the 95th anniversary of her birthday.

The 12th Congress of Scientific-Technical Information and Informatics in Construction (Cicons' 25), to be held May 21-23, will address strategic issues such as communication and digitization in the Cuban context.

Wednesday, April 9, 1958 dawned as a sunny and apparently calm day in much of the country, but at 11:00 a.m. the calm was interrupted by an address transmitted over the radio waves, through which the announcer with an excited voice exhorted:

The Cuban Forest Ranger Corps (CGC by its Spanish acronym) transmitted precise indications for April due to the fact that, historically, it has reported, like March, the highest occurrence of forest fires (111) on average in the last 10 years and of them (3) classified in the categories of large and very large.

The Cuban people honored today the heroine Vilma Espin Guillois on the 95th anniversary of her birth with the memory of the revolutionary work and the work she did for women in the country.

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobianin confirmed that Russia and Cuba are studying the creation of a Moskvich-branded cab service in two cities of the Caribbean nation.

Bruno Rodriguez, Cuban foreign minister, described as infamous the text that laid the foundations of the US economic blockade on the island, on the occasion of its 65th anniversary.