Esteban Lazo, president of the National Assembly of People's Power, recognized the work of firefighters and members of the rescue and lifesaving group, after the accident that occurred on Friday at the Saratoga Hotel in Havana.

Cuban PM Manuel Marrero Cruz, on the second day of his official visit to Venezuela, will hold official talks with the president of that country, Nicolas Maduro.

After three days of hard work at the rests of Havana Saratoga Hotel, destroyed by a blast early last Friday, rescuers continue to look of five missing persons in the piled up debris.

Germany’s Cuba Si Leftist Organization with the Die Linke party is visiting the eastern Cuban city of Santiago de Cuba.

Issues of interest for the Cuban and Venezuelan people are on the agenda of the Cuban prime minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz, who began today an official visit to the Bolivarian nation until next May 11.

On Sunday afternoon, Army General Raul Castro Ruz held a fraternal meeting with the President of the United Mexican States, His Excellency Mr. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who made a working visit to our country.

Representatives of Belize and Jamaica sent solidarity messages to the government and people of Cuba, after the tragic accident that occurred Friday at the Saratoga Hotel in Havana, which has caused numerous losses of human lives, injuries and extensive damage to the building and other nearby facilities.

The repair of the Concepcion Arenal elementary school, affected by last Friday's accident at the Saratoga Hotel, is expected to be completed by May 28.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, called today for strengthening multilateralism and solidarity cooperation, and assured that it will continue to share its experiences with other nations.

The psychological care of children affected by the events at the Saratoga hotel is a priority, said Ena Elsa Velazquez Cobiella, Cuban minister of education, during a tour around the Rafael Maria de Mendive elementary school, located in the capital's Old Havana municipality.

New equipment for the quantification of total carbon in seawater will reinforce Cuba’s capabilities to study ocean acidification.

Rescue and lifesaving work continues today at the Saratoga Hotel in Havana, where firefighters and rescuers are working to reach the basement, Javier Martinez Diaz, member of the provincial executive bureau of the Cuban communist party, told reporters.

Manuel Marrero Cruz, Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba, conveyed warm congratulations to all Cuban mothers on the occasion of today's Mother's Day.

The search for possible survivors in the basement of the Saratoga Hotel in the Cuban capital continues uninterruptedly by joint forces, since an accidental explosion occurred in that tourist facility in Old Havana on May 6.