Local authorities are investigating an explosion this morning in Old Havana in which, according to neighbors, one person was killed and another was injured.

Unit one of the Lidio Ramón Pérez Power Plant in Felton, in the province of Holguín, joined the national grid today after a scheduled 25-day-long maintenance program.

An accident apparently caused by a gas explosion occurred at midnight in the municipality of Old Havana, in this city.

Cuba’s first deputy foreign minister Gerardo Penalver and Canada’s first deputy minister for Global Affairs, David Morrison presided over in Havana the 5th Session of Political Consultations between their countries’ foreign ministries and stressed the good state of bilateral relations.

On February 27th, Cuban deputy foreign minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, summoned Benjamin Ziff, Charge d’ Affairs at the US Embassy in Havana to formally convey his country’s energetic protest for the granting of political asylum to Cuban citizen Ruben Martinez Machado, who hijacked a Cuban civilian airplane on October 21st, 2022.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, denounced today the imperialist attempts to turn the Human Rights Council into a tribunal against countries that do not obey the geopolitical interests of powerful governments.

Law 158/2022 on the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic of Cuba and the System of Superior Control of Public Funds and Administrative Management was published today in the Official Gazette of the Republic number 21 Ordinary.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, today expressed his condolences on the death of prominent journalist Francisca (Paquita) Armas Fonseca.

 Ricardo Cabrisas, Cuban deputy prime minister, and David Morrison, Canada's first deputy foreign minister, stressed in Havana the importance of continuing to develop trade and cooperation ties between the two countries.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the socialist camp, Cuba lost more than 70 % of its foreign trade, a fact taken advantage of by Washington and the Cuban-American mafia to increase the economic, commercial and financial blockade, and to step up political and media actions of all kinds with the aim of ensuring the imperialist restoration of the island in a short period of time.

The Expo Holguin 2023 Commercial Fair will be held April 4-7 at the Exhibition Center in this eastern city, with the participation of businessmen from Canada, Spain and Italy, as part of the strategy to promote exportable items.

More than 60 health professionals will participate today in the 5th provincial workshop on pediatric rare diseases, which will be held at the Pedro Agustin Perez Children's Hospital in Guantanamo.

Cuba and Canada are holding their 5th Political Consultation Session between their foreign ministries on Tuesday.

The Informatics Applications Company Desoft presented today the website of the first Cuban platform consolidated in the execution of virtual and hybrid events Fevexpo (www.fevexpo.cu), in the context of the 25th anniversary of the entity.

At the age of 85 and after a tough battle against cancer, the outstanding journalist, writer and historian Reynaldo Gonzalez Villalonga, with a professional career of more than half a century, died today in this western city.