Nearly 4,000 wildfires occurred in Cuba in the period 2008-2017 that affected 69,305 hectares of forests and evidenced the need to increase the perception of the risk they represent to our economy and environment.

Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel decreed official mourning from 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on June 21, on the occasion of the death of His Excellency Kenneth David Buchizya Kaunda, founding father of the Republic of Zambia, reports Cubaminrex website.

On June 23rd the international community will again witness world support of the Cuban resolution to be submitted to the UNGA demanding the lifting of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba, said Fernando Gonzalez, president of the Cuban Friendship Institute.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez and his Indian counterpart Madhu Sethi stressed the advancement of bilateral cooperation relations between their countries.

 The 14th Cuba-Mexico Migration and Consular virtual Talks wound up on Thursday in an environment of mutual respect and cordiality, according to the Cuban Foreign Ministry.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel-Bermúdez is heading a meeting with grassroots members of the Party to monitor the progress of the agreements sprung from the 8th Congress of their political organization.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla reiterated today on Twitter the Island’s denunciation of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba imposed more than six decades ago.

The Institute of Meteorology reported that a line of thunderstorms hit the provinces of Mayabeque and Havana, according to a press release reproduced below.

The US Coast Guard Service returned to Cuba 59 persons who tried to illegally make it to the US between June 14 and 15. The individuals were brought to the Orozco Bay in the western Cuban province of Artemisa.

With 126 cases of COVID-19 so far this week, including a worrying rise in the number of infected minors, the province of Granma needs to restrain people’s mobility and close ranks against their lack of discipline and disregard of the established health protocols.

Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, said today that Cuba has updated again its health protocols for serious and critical COVID-19 cases.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla denounced today on Twitter the impact of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade on the production of vaccines, since the Island is unable to purchase culture media in the U.S. and forced to turn to distant countries for that purpose.

Annelis Rivero Arias, Angélica Ortiz Mijares and Nirma Jiménez Jerez are among the Cuban young women about to join the Female Voluntary Military Service (SMVF) as an inescapable duty to their Homeland.

So far, no effects on water supply sources have been detected after the oil spill that occurred in the Cuban town of Limonar, in the western Matanzas province, on June 13, according to authorities of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA).

An oil spill that occurred in this locality on Sunday is already under control while the extraction of over 15 thousand oil litters from local river called La Julia is still underway.