The Cuban Telecommunications Company (Etecsa) plans to continue working on the deployment of broadband Internet access technologies to increase connectivity levels for the institutional and residential sectors, as well as to diversify and expand its portfolio of services in the interest of higher levels of affordability from cellular telephony.

Oscar Manuel Silvera Martínez, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Cuba, heads the delegation that will participate online in the 14th United Nations International Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, to be held in Kyoto, Japan, from March 7 to 12.

The Cuban Ministry of Education (MINED) denied rumors circulating in social networks about the continuity of the 2020-2021 school year and the beginning of the 2021-2022 school term.

The virtual conference Cuban Women: Yesterday, Today and Always will be held in this city until March 8, under the auspices of the Provincial Center of Books and Literature.

The Cuban company Inversiones Gamma S.A. is taking on new projects for the recovery of beaches in Latin America and the Caribbean as soon as the COVID-19 pandemic allows it.

This has to be a year to develop, seek solutions to problems and take concrete steps to raise the quality of life of the population, said Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, at a meeting with the Ministry of Economy and Planning (MEP) to evaluate the work projections of the ministry in 2021

The VI Round of Inter-Chancellery Political Consultations between Cuba and Vietnam was held on Tuesday, in virtual format, chaired by the First Deputy Foreign Ministers of each country, Marcelino Medina Gonzalez and Bui Thanh Son.

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (MINCEX by its Spanish acronym), a photographic exhibition was inaugurated today, which gathers part of the history of the institution.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez invited the Joe Biden administration to maintain a respectful relation with Cuba and the whole region.

Co-authored by the Cuban president, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, a scientific text published today presents the conceptual and referential bases for the projection of the Innovation-oriented Government Management Model.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez thanked today the solidarity of Cuban émigrés and friends who from seven U.S. and Canadian cities demanded an end to Washington's economic, commercial and financial blockade on the Island and said to have great admiration for them and their Bridges of Love Caravan, organized on February 28 in Miami, Seattle, New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Ottawa and Montreal.

"As an American musician my ideals are, above all, to achieve an essentially American art in a whole independent from the European one, an art of ours, continental, worthy of being universally accepted," Amadeo Roldan said in an article he titled The Artistic Position of the American Composer.

Faced with a steadily growing number of COVID-19 cases—more than 900 during the new normal—the provincial health authorities strive to improve sanitary protocols and the effectiveness of active screenings as well as to shorten the time span between case-detection and hospital admission.

The University of Havana (UH) starts today its 2021 school year without the physical presence of students, who received detailed instructions from their schools as to how their courses will be organized. Freshmen in turn will first be on campus on April 19, since their personal attendance is essential both for strictly academic reasons and because their presence in the classroom and their interaction with classmates are a gateway to university life.