The General Secretary of the Workers Confederation, CTC, Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento said on Sunday in Havana that voting in the country's general elections is a genuine message to the world that the Cuban people supports the
Revolution.

A vote for the Homeland is present and the workers are massively voting in the electoral districts, said the General Secretary of the Cuban Workers Confederation, CTC in the province of Matanzas, Isdalis Rodriguez.

Cuban President and First Secretary of the Communist Party Raul Castro voted on Sunday in the eastern municipality of the Segundo Frente Oriental Frank Pais for the delegates to the provincial assembly and deputies to the National Assembly of the People's Power.

The Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party, Jose Ramon Machado Ventura voted on Sunday morning to select the deputies and delegates to the National and Provincial Assemblies of the People's Power in the eastern city of Guantanamo.

A large wildfire that started last March 5 in the Guanes municipality in the Cuban westernmost province of Pinar del Rio was finally contained after it burnt close to 2,000 acres of forest.

The eastern province of Camaguey has been the scenario where PVC-concrete pre-fabricated homes have appeared to reanimate the built stock.

Cuba would have for the first time a National Assembly made up by majority of women who currently represent 53.22 percent of the candidates to deputies to the island's Parliament.

Reporters from the eastern province of Granma that served in internationalist missions in Angola and other countries highlighted on Thursday in Bayamo that internationalism is essential in the Cuban Revolutionary process.

The Cuban people will vote for unity during the second stage of the general elections in the country to take place on Sunday, March 11, according to Esperanza Riveron Brizuelas, who lives in the eastern city of Bayamo.

Cuba achieved having five taekwondo athletes to the Central American and Caribbean Games to be held in Barranquilla next July without needing to compete in the first qualifying round that will conclude on Thursday in the Mexican city of Monterrey.

The First Secretary of the National Bureau of the Young Communist League, Sussely Morfa, ratified on Tuesday in Caracas, the need to continue united for Venezuela before US aggression against the South American nation.

A nation-wide election drill took place Sunday to check the operational conditions of the island's voting system to guarantee the efficiency and quality of upcoming general elections on Sunday, March 11.

Over 1,200 experts from 39 countries are gathering in Havana for the 2nd International Convention on Science, Technology and Innovation, aimed at promoting the exchange of expertise, integration sustainable practice and the achievements in research and innovation.

The International Development Fund (OFID) with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will contribute to finance Cuba's Solar Energy Development Project, following a bilateral accord signed Thursday by the two sides in Vienna, Austria.

Cuba will not be among the teams contesting the upcoming Canadian-American Baseball League said Cuban Baseball Commissioner Yosvany Aragon.