The Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, demanded the cessation of the economic, financial and commercial blockade of the United States against Cuba, while speaking at the 13th Summit of ALBA- TCP under way on Sunday at t his capital's Revolution Building.

For the first time we have a movement of integration, solidarity and cooperation, asserted on Sunday in this capital the Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, Kenny Anthony, at the 13th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas-Trade Treaty of the Peoples (ALBA-TCP), on the occasion of its 10th anniversary.

Army General Raul Castro, President of the Cuban councils of State and Ministers, highlighted on Sunday in this capital the close friendship that developed between Commanders Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 12 (acn) The massive access to Information Technology by Cuban society is a priority of the revolutionary government, according to an editorial published on Granma newspaper on Friday.

Cuban programs and initiatives to face the effects of climate change were acknowledged on Friday in this capital by Claudio Tomasi, representative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to the island.

The ambitious housing construction for victims of Hurricane Sandy in this city has the support of the Republic of Ecuador, with its contribution to the construction of 560 houses in the initial stage.

Theodore Friedrich, representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to Cuba, asserted that the island moves towards food independence.

Cuba and Saudi Arabia ratified on Wednesday their intentions to expand bilateral commercial relations through an accord to rehabilitate water supply networks in the eastern province of Camaguey.

Cuban Education minister Ena Elsa Velazquez and her Haitian counterpart Nesmy Manigat signed in Port au Prince a new collaboration accord to boost the literacy program in that sister Caribbean nation.

Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro was awarded on Thursday China´s Confucius Peace Prize in acknowledgement of his efforts to solve international crises and conflicts.

Cuban and foreign academicians will hold debates in this capital on challenges of Caribbean nations.

Latin America is no exception to the enormous economic and social gaps between developing and developed countries, and remains the most unequal region in the world, said Miguel Diaz-Canel, first vice president of Cuba in the XXIV Ibero-American Summit.

Cuba stressed the consolidation of Latin American Integration as part of the rights of the peoples to self-determination, development and peace.

Cuban President Raul Castro received this Tuesday afternoon Saint Lucia´s Prime Minister Kenny Anthony, who was in Cuba participating in the Fifth Caricom-Cuba Summit.

Cuban President Raul Castro received this Tuesday afternoon Bahamas's Prime Minister Perry Gladstone Christie, who visited Cuba on an official meeting after the Fifth Caricom-Cuba Summit.