Manuel Marrero Cruz, Cuban Prime Minister, presided over today the national ceremony for the beginning of the 2023-2024 school year, at the Manuel Martinez Prieto elementary school, in the municipality of Marianao, in Havana.

All of Cuba is celebrating today the beginning of the new 2023-2024 school year, the first one with normality after the impact of COVID-19.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero congratulated the staff of Havana's Palacio de las Convenciones [International Conference Center] on its 44th anniversary.

During the last 24 hours, tropical storm Gert has had little change in organization and intensity. It maintains its sustained winds at 85 kilometers per hour, with higher gusts and a pressure of 999 hectoPascal.
Its translation speed increased to 30 kilometers per hour and continues moving north-northeast.

China and Cuba strengthened their ties in the field of neurosciences with a visit by scientists from the island, who met with their counterparts in the People’s Republic.

Yusniel Mato Padrón and his family wasted no time after tropical storm Idalia, and thanks to the benefits of rainfall began planting rice.

With just a few days left for the start of the 2023-2024 school year, the first one with normality after the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cuban capital is getting ready for the return of students to the classrooms.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz arrived today in the municipality of Sandino, in the province of Pinar del Rio, to evaluate the recovery actions after the damage caused by Hurricane Idalia.

Cuba marked today the 49th anniversary of the establishment of bilateral relations with Cameroon.

An unprecedented political and moral victory against the Yankee imperialist strategy took place on September 2, 1960, when more than 1 million Cubans, constituted in a National General Assembly, approved at Jose Marti Square the First Declaration of Havana, read by Fidel Castro as a response to the aggressive course of US imperialism and its lackeys against the island.

The Isle of Youth did not report any damages associated with Idalia -the ninth tropical organism of the current hurricane season-, however, its rains by infiltration contribute to the gradual recovery of subway aquifers.

After 35 years working for the province of Pinar del Río’s Empresa Eléctrica, Pedro Jesús Rodríguez has lost count of the number of times he has joined recovery efforts following a weather event. Therefore, he is one of those who are working tirelessly to restore the provincial power grid damaged by the tropical storm Idalia.

Hurricane Idalia continues to strengthen in the Gulf of Mexico as it moves away from Cuba, according to Warning No. 6 issued by the Institute of Meteorology.

Esteban Lazo Hernández, president of the National Assembly of People's Power, checked the work under way in this city after the passage of Hurricane Idalia.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel urged that immediate action should be taken to fix the damages caused by Hurricane Idalia, not without praising the good work done so far given the experience and ability of the country’s Civil Defense system.