Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban communist party and president of the country, attends today the national ceremony for the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year in Pinar del Rio(westernmost province), a province severely affected by Hurricane Ian.

The 10,931 general education institutions in Cuba begin today the 2022-2023 school year, which will end in July of next year.

Five million 332 thousand 591 voters (63.85% of the electoral roll) had cast their ballots in the elections for delegates to the Municipal Assemblies of People's Power by 5:00 p.m. Sunday.

Army General Raul Castro Ruz exercised his right to vote at one of Havana’s polling stations, where he talked briefly with the staff, according to Cuban TV reports.

“This vote is an act of reassertion and vindication of our sovereignty,” said Alpidio Alonso, Cuba's Minister of Culture, “and an autochthonous model of elections tailored to our needs and possibilities”. 

Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, exercised his right to vote this morning.

Manuel Marrero Cruz, member of the Political Bureau and Prime Minister of the Republic, said that this Sunday that the elections to elect delegates to the Municipal Assemblies of People's Power are the highest expression of socialist democracy.

Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel arrived in Cuba this Sunday morning after concluding his official visit to several countries.

About eight million Cubans are called to vote today, at the polls, for those they consider should integrate -as delegates- the Municipal Assemblies of People's Power, a genuine act of democracy and whose transcendence acquires greater dimensions due to the exceptional conditions that the Revolution is living.

Army General Raul Castro Ruz paid tribute this Friday to Fidel in the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago de Cuba, six years after his departure, reports Granma newspaper.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero attended the closing session of the International Congress of Law Professionals (Abogacia 2022) held this week at Havana’s Conventions Center.

The need for international laws to regulate or prohibit the use of cyberspace for subversive purposes was exposed today, in Havana, in the final session of the 1st National Workshop on Cybersecurity, by an expert in the matter.

The National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba (Parliament) published today on its website the accountability report of the Council of State.

The Cuban Young Communist League (UJC by its Spanish acronym) called today for a "tuitazo" to pay tribute to Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, on the 6th anniversary of his physical loss.

The 99, 95 % of the clients of Pinar del Rio already have electricity service, one of the severely affected due to the scourge of Hurricane Ian, last September 27.