Cuba built 32 thousand 874 new homes in 2020 despite the economic limitations inflicted by the US blockade of the island.

The Cuban Parliament International Relations Commission issued a statement on Friday denouncing a foreign interference and double standard move by European Parliament members.

Cuban President and Communist Party leader Miguel Diaz-Canel presided over a meeting of party and government members to follow up on the recent 8th Congress of the political organization and its role in society.

Cuba’s Communist Party Secretariat member Jorge Luis Broche thanked the European Solidarity with Cuba Movement for its support of the island nation and its people.

Cuban minister of labor and social security, Marta Elena Feito Cabrera, spoke today at the Virtual Meeting of Ministers of Labor of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) of the 109th Session of the International Labor Conference (ILC-ILO).

The Cuban mission to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) participated today in Rome in the 48th Special Session of the Committee on World Food Security.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, said today on Twitter that the U.S. blockade delays the development of Cuban vaccine candidates against COVID-19.

The Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) held on Wednesday a virtual meeting with members of the Sao Paulo Forum to report on the results of the recently held 8th Congress of the highest political organization of the island.

Gladys María Bejerano Portela, Comptroller General of the Republic of Cuba, spoke at the Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Corruption, where she reiterated the commitment of the island with the prevention and confrontation of this type of acts.

The National Radar Centers in eastern Cuba reported the first appearance of a waterspout in the Bay of the south-central city of Cienfuegos.

Cuban youth throughout the Island will engage this week in actions in favor of environmental preservation, sanitation and education and reforestation to greet June 5, World Environment Day.

Forest management-related tasks (cleaning, pruning and thinning) have made progress so far in 2021 in the province of Sancti Spiritus, whose plan for this year covers more than 2,700 hectares, whereas another 500 should be rebuilt with species of high economic value.

A recent online workshop on artificial intelligence, organized by the Ministry of Higher Education (MES) and attended by several Cuban universities and research centers, will pave the way for the design of a strategy to develop this field in Cuba.

Havana city government is setting a up a program for the recovery of veterinary clinics and veterinary offices in order to improve attention to pets and other animals in the Cuban capital.

More than 80,300 people are working remotely in Havana, a number on the rise and that responds to the national strategy to promote physical distance as part of the confrontation with the COVID-19.