Esteban Lazo Hernandez, president of the National Assembly of People's Power (Parliament) and the Council of State, exchanged onn Wednesaday with members of the Dominican Republic-Cuba Parliamentary Friendship Group, who are on a visit to the island, according to the Parliament's Twitter.

An initial flight with travel agents and tour operators on board opened an air connection between Mexico’s Monterrey state, Havana and Jardines del Rey keys, off the northern coast of this central province.

 A temporary exhibition on Cuba's Geodiversity is open to the public at the National Museum of Natural History in Old Havana.

Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Rodrigo Malmierca will attend today the opening of fair of the Colombian Association of Travel and Tourism Agencies (ANATO), on the last day of his visit to the South American country.

The demographic dynamics, and as part of it the aging population, are issues of the present and the future, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez told health experts and scientists during a meeting to discuss actions and means in health institutions for the benefit of the elderly.

Specialized forces of the Fire Department, Forest Rangers and Agroforestry services keep trying to put out a forest fire since Saturday in Pinares de Mayari, in the province of Holguin, caused by the intense drought of the last five months.

Forest fires are said to have caused the breakdown of the 220 kV lines that brought down the power grid from central to eastern Cuba., according to Lázaro Guerra, technical director of the National Electric Union (UNE).

The Electric Union reported on social networks that the service is being restored in provinces spanning central and eastern Cuba.

The head of Cuba’s Communist Party International Relations Department, Emilio Lozada thanked Iran for its longstanding position against the over-60-year economic, commercial and financial blockade of the Caribbean island nation.

Havana, Feb 21 (ACN) The need to assess internal migration policies, enhance the people’s cultural preparation and prioritize the attention to genre differences are some of the challenges to address the island demographic development.

The provinces from Cienfuegos to Guantanamo are without power due to a breakdown in the 220 kilovolt lines, the Cuban Electrical Company (UNE by its Spanish acronym) reported today.

On the occasion of the 89th anniversary of the assassination of Nicaraguan patriot and revolutionary Augusto Cesar Sandino, the anniversary was commemorated today at the headquarters of the Cuban Friendship Institute (ICAP by its Sapnish acronym), in Havana.

Cuban Tourism Minister Juan Carlos Garcia Granda described tourist guides as professionals who make the work of tourism even more worthwhile.

Specialists and health authorities in Santiago de Cuba(eastern Cuba) are urging to strengthen measures to prevent the penetration and spread of avian influenza, a disease caused by the influenza virus type A, which belongs to the Orthomyxoviridae family.

We are constantly monitoring the situation, said Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, referring to the relentless fight offered by the Cuban Fire Brigade and Forest Rangers against a fire in Pinares de Mayari, in the province of Holguin.