The Union of Jurists of Cuba (UNJC) will open today its 9th Congress at the Havana Convention Center, aimed at strengthening the organization and its affiliates from the social and legal responsibility that represents its work.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said that the new Family Code, currently in the make, will be a necessary, worthy law made by the Cuban people.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuban president, said today on Twitter that the voice of Latin America and the Caribbean, as in the past, will resound in Los Angeles during the 9th Summit of the Americas, with the absence of key leaders.

The National Assembly of People's Power (Parliament) of Cuba congratulated today the newspaper Trabajadores, on the occasion of its 52nd anniversary, and thanked the meritorious work of this publication.

Workers from the Attorney General's Office of the Republic (FGR by its Spanish acronym) reaffirmed today their commitment to the principles of socialist legality during the main ceremony for the Legal Workers' Day, to be commemorated on June 8.

The United States government, abusing the privilege granted by its status as host country, decided in advance to exclude Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua from the 9th Summit of the Americas, to be held in the city of Los Angeles this June. It refused to meet the just demands of numerous governments to change this discriminatory and unacceptable position.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and president of the country, urged today on Twitter to work hard on the recovery after the heavy rains of the last few days, giving priority to damaged houses and plantations.

The first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban communist party and president of the country, Miguel Diaz-Canel, congratulated today the combatants, officers and leaders of the Ministry of the Interior(MININT) on their 61st anniversary.
On Twitter, the president stressed that this body guarantees peace and tranquility for citizens.

A Cuban professional delegation is attending three international meetings in Geneva on chemicals, hazardous wastes and their elimination, which will last until June 17.

Cuban and European experts begin today an exchange on integral multi-risk management of disasters in order to reduce their negative impacts on the most vulnerable populations in time for the cyclonic season that lasts until next November.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez made an appeal to fix as soon as possible the damages caused by heavy rains in the western and central regions of the country, speed up agricultural recovery and restore the electricity service in areas hit by flooding.

Evacuation centers are ready in Havana to shelter people amidst ongoing heavy rains Friday evening, said the head of the Disaster Reduction Department at the National Civil Defense Center, Lieutenant Colonel Gloria Gely.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez of Friday called on the people to stay vigilant and safe as long as heavy rains persist throughout the island.

The Cuban Civil Defense authority issued a press release saying that as a result of the impact of heavy and intense rains on the country, two citizens died in Havana, one is missing in western Pinar del Rio province, while material damage has been reported in the power grid, and homes thus far.

In the west and center of the archipelago are reported more than 30 localities with accumulated above 100 millimeters of rainfall in the last 24 hours until 8 am, according to the Forecast Center of the Institute of Meteorology.