Cuban enterprise UNIÓN ELÉCTRICA is working nonstop on a short-term program to recover its thermal generation capacity and put an end by the end of next week the current problems facing the electric power service in Cuba, authorities reported.

The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel, thanked today the work and results of the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), which celebrates Thursday its 35th anniversary.

The Institute of Meteorology reports that tropical depression number five continued to organize and intensify better during the night and early morning, while maintaining abundant clouds with numerous showers, rains and thunderstorms.

Cuban and German representatives addressed ways for joint work and cooperation in environmental protection and sustainable development during a virtual forum on Wednesday.

 The Cuban News Agency has opened an on-line shop for its “Ofertas” Magazine with classified ads, publicity and journalistic works particularly targeting the private economic sector.

The Havana Scientific-Technological Park counts at present with 15 incubation projects that have allowed it to bill more than 2,500,000 Cuban pesos, according to director Rafael Luis Torralbas Ezpeleta.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said today on Twitter that recovery work started at once after the earthquake felt Tuesday in the province of Artemisa, in western Cuba.

The use of organic matter, planting crops in rows and sowing in the opposite direction to steep slopes are some of the actions developed in the province of Cienfuegos as part of the National Program for Soil Conservation and Improvement (PNCMS).

In memory of the speech delivered by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, known as Words to the Intellectuals, which has made history as the address that marked the cultural policy of the Revolution, several institutions will have today a busy schedule of celebrations.

On June 30, 1957, Josué País García, Floro Vistel Somodeville and Salvador Pascual Salcedo, young members of the 26th of July National Revolutionary Movement, fell in combat in the city of Santiago de Cuba, as victims of savage and unlawful crimes committed by hired assassins of Batista's tyranny at a time when the Rebel Army was growing stronger and spreading throughout the Sierra Maestra Mountains.

Damages to the Comandante Pinares General Teaching Hospital in the municipality of San Cristóbal, caused by Tuesday's earthquake, led to the suspension of hospitalization services and made the fight against COVID-19 in the region all the more complicated.

The 5.1 magnitude earthquake that shook western Cuba is a normal event, though rare, said Olearys Gonzalez, director of the National Center for Seismological Research, which is based in this city.

Cuban deputy foreign minister Anayansi Rodriguez and Martin Tlapa, deputy foreign minister of the Zcheck Republic presided over a virtual session of political consultations between both nations’ foreign ministries.

An earthquake of 5.1 magnitude shook the western region of Cuba today, with reports of perceptibility in Havana, Artemisa and Isle of Youth, with no material or human damages registered so far.

After six months of inactivity, the Latex Articles Factory in Las Tunas province is back to work, with the ambitious challenge of producing 283, 000 pairs of domestic gloves until next July, an input that will be mainly destined for the health sector.