A traffic accident on Tuesday afternoon on the highway linking the provinces of Havana and Pinar del Río took a preliminary toll of 48 injured.

With an artistic program attended by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and top political and government leaders, the 61st anniversary of the victory at Bay of Pigs was honored today in this city at Teatro Nacional.

The Cuban Electric Company announced restless efforts to reestablish power output after breakdown of major thermo-electric plant plus other unexpected events.

With floral wreaths from Army General Raul Castro Ruz and Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, a tribute was paid today to the martyrs of Bay of Pigs.

Inspired by the structure of the Casa Insolita ("Unusual House"), a facility located in the city of Las Tunas (eastern Cuba), where optical and physical phenomena related to the force of gravity are shown, the construction of a Fantastic Park is planned to be completed by late 2023 in this city.

The defeat of the mercenary invasion, which will be 61 years old this April 19, began to be prepared before the landing of more than a thousand men supported by tanks, artillery and aircraft at Playa Giron and Playa Larga, where they were to establish a puppet government that would justify the direct intervention of the United States.

 In the effort towards Cuba's digital transformation, the ministry of labor and social security (MTSS) will make available to the administrations an innovative computer system for human resources management, which would be considered the digital employment file.

Outstanding Cuban musician Jose Luis Cortes, known as “El Tosco”, passed today at 70 as a consequence of a stroke, the Cuban Music Institute reported.

Cuban seismological service stations keep permanent surveillance about seismic conditions in areas near the country, which have been very active since the 7.3 quake that hit Haiti on 14 August, 2021.

In the presence of Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, workers and professors at Havana’s Higher Institute of International Relations (ISRI) pay homage on Monday to Raul Roa Garcia, who was known as an outstanding scholar, diplomat and former Foreign Minister on his 115th birthday.

Operators of the Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Power Plant (CTE by its Spanish acronym), with the support of specialized teams, are working to intervene in the area of the boiler and evaluate the unforeseen failure that occurred there last Saturday, which caused the unit of that plant to go out of service.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, recalled today the birthdays of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, the father of the homeland, and Raul Roa, known as the foreign minister of dignity.

Students of Higher education all over Cuba return today to classes to begin the 2022 academic year in university degrees and short-cycle training programs, without renouncing the use of virtual spaces for teaching and learning.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel evoked today on Twitter the epic events of Bay of Pigs 61 years ago, when the fighters of the Island faced up to the invasion financed by the United States.

Recalling the US bombing of Cuba airports 61 years ago, Cuba President Miguel Diaz-Canel acknowledged the braveness of the Cuban people by writing on his Twitter account that Cuba’s heroism prevailed over cowardice.