The Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) saluted Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo, National Coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), on the occasion of his 58th birthday.

"The challenge is to keep going, with the best possible songs, working hard as worshipers of love and good faith among human beings," said singer-songwriter Israel Rojas after duo Buena Fe's tour of Spain.

Tropical depression Two of the current hurricane season which formed in the Gulf of Mexico gained intensity and organization to evolve into Tropical Storm Arlene, a weak system expected to degenerate into a remnant low on Saturday.

Authorities in the westernmost Cuban province of Pinar del Rio activated a temporary working group to take measures aimed at preventing loss of human lives and property damage under any impact of tropical storm Arlene, which approaches northern Cuba.

The University of Sancti Spiritus Jose Marti Perez ( UNISS) will host June 5-10 a summer school to be attended by representatives from nearly twenty countries, with the aim of exchanging experiences on training and professional preparation focused on a greater contribution to innovation and transformation of the economy and society.

With 22.3 % of the population aged 60 and over at the end of 2022, and a projection that by 2050 this percentage figure will reach 35.9%, aging in Cuba is the main challenge in the demographic field.

 A new return of irregular migrants from the Cayman Islands took place last night at the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) reported today.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, today attended the awarding of the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa to Silvio Rodriguez, at the University of Havana.

The current challenges of development and the role of science, technology and innovation will be the topics to be discussed at a summit of heads of state and government of the Group of 77 plus China (G-77 + China), to be held in Havana next September.

Cuba’s Foreign Ministry denounced on Thursday in an official statement the fascist acts committed against Cuban artists.

The Cuban Meteorology Center (Insmet) issued its Tropical Storm Advisory One on the formation in the northern Gulf of Mexico of Tropical Depression two of the current hurricane season, which runs June 1 to November 30.

On the occasion of World Children's Day, commemorated today, the Cuban capital city will organize celebrations in every municipality, including recreational activities and other events to mark both the date and the beginning of summer in the country.

Details of the U.S.-led biological warfare against Cuba came to light with the declassification of the results of the U.S. Senate Special Commission that looked into the illegal actions of the CIA in 1975 and other documents which proved that Commander in Chief Fidel Castro’s allegations were right.

Cuba’s Ediciones Vigía organized a meeting between local poets and students from Wake Forest University, in North Carolina, U.S.A., and poets from Matanzas; in the exchange, held at the Office of the Curator of this city and marked by Latin American and Anglo-Saxon music and poetry.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel highlighted the celebration of World No Tobacco Day, established by the World Health Assembly in 1987 to raise awareness of the smoking epidemic, spread messages about tobacco control and encourage compliance with the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.