A project to provide Cuban railroad systems with Wi-Fi connection will be tested in September this year to the benefit of train passengers.

The Alexander de Humboldt Institute for Fundamental Research in Tropical Agriculture (INIFAT by its Spanish acronym) is part of the international project Biodiversity for the family and development, with the aim of supporting the conservation of phytogenetic resources, a specialized source said.

New methodological guidelines on hazard, vulnerability and risk studies were presented by Cuban specialists at the 15th National Meeting of the Risk Assessment Group in Cuba, which concludes today in Havana.

Josefina Vidal Ferreiro, deputy minister of the Cuban foreign ministry (MINREX by its Spanish acronym), received today Ghassan Ben Jeddou, president of the Arab television channel AlMayadeen, in the framework of the working visit he is making to the island.

Cuban and US teachers will exchange experiences during a forum to be held March 19-26 during in Havana.

A new air traffic control tower at the Frank Pais international airport in the eastern Cuban province of Holguin is expected to increase regional air navigation safety and land operations with first-generation equipment.

The US Coast Guard Service intercepted and returned 27 irregular Cuban migrants on Wednesday to the island through the Orozco harbor, in the western province of Artemisa, according to the Cuban Interior Ministry.

Ten irregular Cuban migrants were returned by Cayman Island authorities through the Havana Jose Marti International Airport, the Cuban Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday.

A project of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS) aims to establish a telephone line to provide personalized attention to the elderly, people with disabilities and caregivers in situations of psychosocial or physical risk.

Early in 1878, Máximo Gómez wrote in his War Diary: "A complete demoralization is noticeable and everyone is in low spirits, as much by the constant operations of the enemy as by the division of the Cubans".

 The Cuban projects Joven Club Móvil Ecológico and Cartelera Cultural La Papeleta won the awards of the Forum of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), held in Geneva, Switzerland, according to the Cuban ambassador in that city, Juan Antonio Quintanilla.

 “Our truth is in the ideas of justice that we defend and in the wonderful work that we build against the tide,” said Rogelio Polanco Fuentes, member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and head of its Ideological Department at the ceremony of the 2023 National Journalism Awards, held on the occasion of Cuban Press Day.

The adoption of an action plan to counteract the conservative media machinery and the training of professionals committed to the values of popular transformation were the focus of debate in the last day of the 2nd International Colloquium Patria (Homeland).

The Cuban Parliament’s Commission on Industry, Construction and Energy addressed on Tuesday the island’s policy on renewable energy and measures aimed at fostering the rational use of such sources of energy.

The US Coast Guard Service returned 37 irregular Cuban migrants to the island on Tuesday.