The Havana-based UNDP Cuba Office will launch a multinational capacity-building project to improve the safety and resilience against weather events of critical infrastructure in Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Haiti with financial support of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) of the Infrastructure for Resilient Island States Program.

The book Privilegiados del tiempo: Recuerdos de periodistas de la radio y la televisión(Privileged of Time: Memories of Radio and Television Journalists) was presented in Havana to commemorate the 98th anniversary of the birth of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, to be celebrated on August 13.

Yamila Peña Ojeda, attorney general of the Republic, recalled the legacy of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz in legislative processes under way in the country, such as the approval of the Social Communication Act, and stressed that the undisputed leader of the Cuban Revolution was an excellent communicator in the way he conveyed information and got his views across.

The Cuban Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA) announced the implementation of management plans for 18 protected areas during the 2024-2028 time period.

Fidel raised, so to speak, an island brimming with humanism, happy children with much or little, and resilience and peace, and it’s up to us to fertilize, look after, and boost the growth of those roots that the Commander in Chief planted, says Flavia de los Angeles Contreras Vega, a young woman who is now doing her Military Service.

 The Fidel Castro Center announced the activities organized for the vacation period and until the beginning of the next school year.

With the premise of promoting the identification of young people with their organization, the National Council of the Federation of University Students (FEU), which began on July 29, concluded today in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba.

In a post on X, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel expressed his gratitude for the support received from 123 countries that signed a statement at the Human Rights Council demanding the exclusion of Cuba from the list of State sponsors of terrorism.

The U.S. Coast Guard returned to Cuba 32 irregular migrants (26 men and 6 women) who had illegally departed from the island and were eventually intercepted at sea, the Ministry of the Interior announced on its official website.

A total of 187 students from 25 countries have just graduated from the University of Medical Sciences of Havana (UCMH) has just graduated 187, graduates of the different branches during the 2023-2024 academic year.

The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs published the declaration of 123 countries demanding the exclusion of Cuba from the unilateral list of States that allegedly sponsor terrorism.

In statements to the media, the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) and UNICEF’s Cuba Office announced that the island is joining the celebrations of World Breastfeeding Week, to be observed on August 1 to 7 by more than 170 countries.

A sovereign decision of the government of the people in power proclaimed July 30 as the Day of the Martyrs of the Revolution, during the first national commemorative act of the assaults on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes in Bayamo, in homage to all the fallen for freedom and especially to Frank País García and Raúl Pujol Arencibia, vilely murdered in 1957 on the date established for the veneration.

A group of measures aimed at updating the commercialization of vehicles in the country were presented in Havana by Eduardo Rodriguez Davila, Minister of Transport.

A group of the Valencian Association of Friendship with Cuba “ Jose Marti” concluded in Boyeros and Tulipan, in Havana, the second of two mural paintings made during their visit to Cuba, which will conclude next Wednesday.