Cuba’s National Seismologic Service reported a perceptible tremor Wednesday morning some 600 kilometers southeast of the Isle of Youth, an isle-municipality to the south of the western portion of the main island of Cuba.

The 25th year of the pastoral visit to Cuba by Pope John Paul II, the first visit here by a Holy Father of the Catholic Church, was marked on Wednesday during a ceremony at the University of Havana in the presence of Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel lamented today the death of the prestigious lawyer and human rights fighter Beinusz Szmukler, who always supported the Cuban Revolution.

As part of a solidarity and economic exchange visit to the province of Granma, His Excellency Mr. Hirata Kenji, Japan's ambassador to Cuba, toured today health care centers in this city of eastern Cuba, where he learned about the benefits of the Japanese donations to a local clinical-surgical hospital.

The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that Colombian VP Francia Elena Márquez Mina will pay an official visit to Cuba starting tomorrow, February 9, to participate in the Havana International Book Fair (February 9-19), in which Colombia is the Guest of Honor, meet with Cuban authorities and carry out other activities of interest.

Old cities are a palpable accumulation of time, their houses an all-encompassing multiple mirror of what we are. For the citizens of the city of Camagüey, formerly Villa Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe, La Caridad tells of neighborhood, virgin and church.

 “We must be close to the citizens to listen to and support them (…) since the future of the province of Camagüey lies in business management and in the efforts of each worker,” Cuban deputy prime minister Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca said on behalf of the eleven candidates for Parliament from this city, who are visiting local schools and workplaces to talk with students and workers.

Local fruit production programs and social policies implemented in vulnerable neighborhoods were the focus of attention of the candidates for Parliament in the province of Artemisa.

Some 16 irregular Cuban migrants were returned to the island by the US Coast Guard Service on Tuesday.

Manuel Marrero, Cuban Premier and recently elected candidate to Parliament deputy visited the easternmost Cuban community of Gibara in this province as part of the scheduled meetings of the deputies-to-be with the people.

As part of scheduled meetings with the community by the recently elected candidates to Parliament deputies, President Miguel Diaz-Canel toured the Marta Abreu University of Las Villas, in the central city of Santa Clara.

Cuban vice president Salvador Valdes Mesa received at the Palace of the Revolution the president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Angel Victor Torres Perez, who has been on a working visit since last February 4.

The Technical Committee for Standardization (CTN by its Spanish acronym) of Cuba on Gender Equality invited its members to participate virtually in the meeting of the group of specialists in sensitive standards of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE-UN).

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez said that it is an honor to be a candidate to deputy of the Cuban Parliament along other persons who although very young have dedicate their lives to the Revolution.

 The importance of the role of young people in the Cuban scenario was highlighted today by Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, during a tour in Santa Clara(central Cuba).