The external institutional evaluation by experts of the National Accreditation Board (JAN by its Spanish acronym) of the Ministry of Higher Education (MES by its Spanish acronym) of the University of Guantanamo (easternmost province) is underway from November 13 until November 17.

Havana will host the 11th Congress of Scientific-Technical Information and Informatics in Construction (CICONS 2023) on Nov. 22-24.

The Cuban Telecommunications Company (ETECSA) reported that this morning there was a cut in terrestrial fiber optics that has affected the Internet service in its different modalities.

Professionals from scientific institutions and universities in Cuba, Costa Rica and Canada attended today in Havana the opening plenary session of the International Symposium for the 40th anniversary of the Center for Psychological and Sociological Research (CIPS by its Spanish acronym).

Some 1,290 inhabitants of this town and other places in the municipality of the same name, in the eastern Cuban province of Granma, are benefiting from the implementation of the "Actúa Diferente! project ("Act Differently!"), promoted by the World Food Program (WFP) of the United Nations.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, greeted today the Cubans living abroad who will participate at the 4th Conference of the Nation and Emigration.

Salvador Valdes Mesa, Vice President of Cuba, exchanged today with the president of the Parliament of Ghana, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, as part of an official visit to the West African nation, which will last until next November 15.

The 14th International Meeting of Economists on Globalization and Development Problems will open this afternoon at the Havana

The 24th Conference of Ibero-American Water Directors (CODIA) will be opened tomorrow at the Hotel Nacional de Cubas with the presence of representatives from 18 countries of the region who will attend for the first time in Havana since the first one in Colombia in 2001.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez announced the start of the recovery stage in the region of Moa, eastern Holguin province, which was strongly affected by floods caused by an overflown river.

Salvador Valdes Mesa, Vice President of Cuba, at the head of a Cuban delegation, begins today a 10-day tour to African countries.

The visit of Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and President of the Republic, and the arrival of the opening flight of Rainbow Tours in 2023, coming from Poland, marked the news events in the province of Matanzas during the recent week.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla stressed that there is no valid or reasonable argument for keeping Cuba on the U.S. State Department’s unilateral list of alleged state sponsors of terrorism, a measure he described as unacceptable inasmuch as it is taken against a nation victim of terrorism that still suffers from violent and terrorist acts promoted precisely, and with impunity, from the United States.

One of the world referents in the field of Artificial Intelligence, the Spanish professor Francisco Herrera Triguero, will be awarded Corresponding Academician status by the Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC), a distinction granted to eminent foreign scientists for their universal progress-oriented research.

The Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment of Cuba reiterated its initiative to make available to citizens the draft Law on Transparency and Access to Public Information, to express their opinions, suggestions and recommendations to improve it.