Although in Pinar del Rio(westernmost Cuban province) all the centers belonging to the Ministry of Industries ( MINDUS) were affected by Hurricane Ian, thanks to the hard work of their labor collectives and the support of other territories and forces, the recovery is progressing and is already bearing its first fruits.

Before this year ends, Havana will have a system of public bicycles at trial level (300), starting at the Technological University of Havana, according to information provided to the Cuban News Agency.

The 5th edition of the International Colloquium of Studies on Native Cultures of the Americas kicked off today at the headquarters of the Casa de las Americas in Havana.

On the instructions of Commandant Ernesto Che Guevara, president of the National Bank of Cuba, Law No. 891 referring to the nationalization of the Banks was drafted and proposed, approved by the Council of Ministers on October 13, 1960, "with the objective of definitively eliminating the economic power of the privileged interests that were conspiring against the people" and to guarantee that the banking function would only be carried out by the State as the only way of exercising the economic sovereignty of the nation.

Cuban professionals linked to the international projects Manglar Vivo (Living Mangrove), Resiliencia Costera(Coastal Resilience) and Mi Costa(My Coast) are participating in the 2nd Congress of Mangroves of the Americas, held Oct. 10-14 in the city of Merida, in the Mexican state of Yucatan.

Don Navarro is the name of the new rum that Havana Club International S.A. has just launched in posthumous tribute to Cuba's First Rum Master, José Pablo Navarro Campa.

Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel sent his condolences to the families of the victims, the victims and the forces working after the landslide that occurred in the town of Las Tejerías, in Venezuela, due to the heavy rains that hit that country since last week.

The Animal Production and Agrodevelopment Convention (Agropat) 2022 began on Monday at the Plaza America Convention Center, in this seaside resort city, with the presence of some 400 delegates from 18 countries.

When I see the way the people fight adversities, I say that you have to give it all for these people, said Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel during his fourth visit to this western province, the hardest-hit territory by the recent passage of category-three hurricane Ian on western Cuba.

Ines Maria Chapman Waugh, deputy prime minister of Cuba, today presides over the closing ceremony of the 3rd International Quality Convention held at the Plaza America Convention Center in Varadero, Cuba, since Oct. 5.

The Institute of Meteorology ( INSMET) reported today that during the morning, tropical depression 13 continued to gain in organization and intensity reaching maximum sustained winds of 65 kilometers per hour, with higher gusts, so it has become Tropical storm Julia.

Esteban Lazo Hernandez, president of the National Assembly of People's Power (Parliament), said today that solidarity among all people should prevail at present, when the country is recovering after the passage of hurricane Ian.

More than 15 tons of components and equipment departed Thursday from Venezuela, in the second solidarity shipment from the South American country to support recovery efforts in the Cuban provinces affected by hurricane Ian.

Tropical depression number 13 had little change in its organization in its passage through the waters of the central Caribbean Sea, north of South America, according to the Tropical Cyclone Warning number 2 of the Institute of Meteorology on this hydrometeorological phenomenon.

The first secretary of the Party's Central Committee and president of the country, Miguel Diaz-Canel, begins today his fourth visit to the province of Pinar del Rio after the passage of Hurricane Ian, to examine the recovery process.