Nearly one million Cubans are expected to march May Day on Havana´s Revolution Square, venue of celebrations tomorrow for International Worker´s Day.

All 295 high schools and 395 polytechnic institutes in Cuba will be connected to the Internet during the next school year, according to the Cuban Education Ministry.

Heavy rains and strong winds affected Havana Wednesday evening claiming two lives and inflicting property damage throughout the city.

The British trade mission that visited Cuba for three days concludes its contacts on Thursday, with the prospect of strengthening business ties with the archipelago.

The Oscar Lucero Moya University of this city renewed on Tuesday an international cooperation agreement with the University of Western Ontario, Canada, during the second day of the 7th International Scientific Conference of the University.

The First Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Diaz-Canel, met on Wednesday morning with the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Barcena.

Activists of the US National Network on Cuba condemned Washington´s economic blockade against the island on Wednesday in Havana during a meeting at Casa de la Amistad.

HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 29 (acn) The case of Cuba must be distinguished because it opens to foreign investment but selects important items for the country and protects national jobs, highlighted on Tuesday in Havana Alicia Barcena, executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

In Cuba there are more than two million people over 60 years of age, 19 percent of the total population, and is the first Latin American country with the oldest population, announced an expert in this capital on Tuesday.

Cuban President Raul Castro received on Monday afternoon Cardinal Beniamino Stella, prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy of the Holy See, who is visiting the Cuban Catholic Church.

A call for this May Day parade to be compact, colorful and combative was made in this capital on Monday, during a plenary meeting on the occasion of International Workers' Day.

The Association of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC) conferred on Monday the status of honorary members to the five Cuban antiterrorists who suffered unjust imprisonment in the United States. It was conferred during a meeting attended by Miguel Diaz-Canel, member of the Political Bureau of the Cuban Communist Party and First Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers.

The second highest temperature value in the history of weather records in Cuba and the highest in the province of Holguin was reported last Sunday by two weather stations in the territory, which recorded 38.7 Celsius degrees.

Encouraged by the return to Cuba of the five anti-terrorists who were imprisoned for years in US jails and of the health professionals who fought Ebola in western Africa, nearly 60 thousand health workers will join the May Day march next Friday at Havana´s Revolution Square.

Over 1.2 million Cubans were called to vote at the second round of municipal elections in 1.166 electoral districts, in all 149 Cuban municipalities needing to complete the total of local government representatives.