Cuba and the Gabonese Republic confirmed their good bilateral relations during the inter-chancellery political consultations held in this city, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX).

This month, the four-million plus members of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) will launch recreational and cultural activities in all communities and hold their 11th Congress to celebrate the 63rd anniversary of the organization, according to Secretary-General Teresa Amarelle Boué.

The corporation Cimex S.A. announced today that from September 1 to October 31 it will gradually begin to eliminate cash as a means of payment in gas stations throughout the country.

As part of the scientific trip to Cuba, specialists from the Territorial Delegation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment ( CITMA) in Camagüey, and the Center for Environmental Research ( CIMAC), participate in the two-day tour that takes place along the coast of this province.

Solidarity groups, trade unions and parties from Asturias, Spain, supported by the collectives of the State Movement of Solidarity with Cuba, obtained funds for a new shipment of milk to the Caribbean nation.

Manuel Marrero Cruz, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba and Prime Minister of the country, checks today, in this locality, the performance of socioeconomic development programs of the southern municipality of the province of Sancti Spiritus, one of the main tourist destinations in the country.

The eighth month of the year is the second month of the intra-summer period or canicule in Cuba and one of the two that least precipitation adds to the rainy season in the country.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel recalled on Twitter Havana’s Historian Eusebio Leal on the third year of his passing stressed the challenge to follow up on his work and keep developing it with the same passion for beauty shown by Leal.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party Central Committee and Cuban President headed through a video-conference the most recent session of the Council of Ministers’ Executive Committee on some of the country’s social and economic issues.

 The Ernesto Che Guevara brigade, of the contingent Razones por la Vida (Reasons for Life), made up of 50 students registered in different degrees of the University of Medical Sciences of Guantanamo (UCMGT by its Spanish acronym)), was flagged today in this eastern city to strengthen during the summer season the services of the provincial hospital Dr. Agostihno Neto, the main health care institution of the territory.

Ines Maria Chapman, Cuban deputy prime minister, congratulated today the men and women of the Civil Defense of Cuba, on the 61st anniversary of the creation of this organization.

Jose Luis Toledo, chairman of the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee of the National Assembly of People's Power (Parliament) of Cuba, received today Tobias Bank, secretary general of the German party Die Linke (The Left).

The Third National Workers' Congress, held on August 2-7, 1925 in Camagüey(eastern Cuba), marked a milestone in the history of the Cuban trade union movement by announcing in its final session the creation of the National Workers' Confederation of Cuba (CNOC by its Spanish acronym)), a decision taken by representatives of 82 related organizations in the country.

STATEMENT OF THE CUBAN UN ASSOCIATION ON THE OCCASION OF THE WORLD DAY AGAINST TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS

Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, thanked the friends of the world for their solidarity on Sunday in the caravans against the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on the island more than 60 years ago.