Havana Club International S.A. launched a product on Wednesday called “Havana Club Profundo,” a super premium aged white rum that will join the permanent portfolio of the popular brand.

Several of the measures approved by the Cuban government last April to boost agricultural production are already in place in the province of Sancti Spíritus, according to local officials in statements to ACN.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez described today as alarming the number of COVID-19 infections in pediatric age at national level, over 17,700 after the third outbreak.

A Cuban digital COVID vaccine passport is being tested at the University of Computer Science (UCI), according to Allan Pierra Fuentes, director of the UCI Technological Support Center.

The lack of fuel for transportation, the inability to use ICT platforms for virtual interaction in times of pandemic, and the purchase at excessive prices of scientific equipment in distant markets are some of the main impacts of the blockade on the Marta Abreu Central University of Las Villas (UCLV).

HAVANA, Cuba, May 26 (ACN) About 1,500 hectares of planted forests in Cuba have been affected by wildfires so far this year, reported the Cuban Forest Ranger Corps (CGC), attached to the Ministry of the Interior.

Cuban ambassador to UNESCO, Yahima Esquivel Moynelo, is leading the Cuban delegation to the Sixth Meeting of the States Parties to the 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property.

Esteban Lazo Hernandez, president of the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba, congratulated today the Pan-African Parliament and the people of that continent, on the occasion of the celebration of Africa Day this May 25.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, denounced today on Twitter the continuity of Donald Trump's policy against the Caribbean nation by the current U.S. administration.

On the occasion of the celebration today of Africa Day, Cuban authorities highlighted the strong historical and cultural ties that unite Cuba with that continent.

China will donate some five thousand solar panel systems as part of the Chinese government’s “Belt and Road” climate change initiative, according to the Cuban Foreign Ministry.

People from government and science (or a small representation of them) committed to the promotion of science and innovation in Cuba, will coincide from now on in the National Innovation Council, created Monday by Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, at the Palace of the Revolution.

The Biblioverde (BV) project, of the Cuban Association of Librarians (Ascubi) in Villa Clara, is among the four finalists worldwide in the IFLA Green Library 2021 call, a contest that seeks to strengthen the commitment of libraries to environmental education.

The TripAdvisor website granted the Travellers' Choice award to the Gran Club Santa Lucía Hotel, one of the four hotels owned by the Cubanacán chain on Santa Lucía beach, the main tourist center in the province of Camagüey.

The President of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) of the Republic of Cuba, Esteban Lazo Hernández, held on Monday a cordial and fruitful virtual exchange with the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) of the People's Republic of China, Li Zhanshu, where they ratified the high priority both give to the ties of friendship and cooperation between both peoples, Parties, Governments and legislative bodies.