For Yamila and Adrián, more and more celebration dates pile up every month that they have to postpone or just let pass. Since March 2020, she says, there have been birthdays, New Year's Eve, a dating anniversary, Valentine's Day... and more will come as COVID-19 remains wreaking havoc.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez made a call to consolidate results and not feel too confident in view of the slight drop in the number of people infected with COVID-19 reported on Wednesday—137 less than the previous day—-at a meeting with the provisional working group for prevention and control.

Ten renowned Cuban jurists seek to receive Carlos Manuel de Céspedes 2020 National Law Award, the National Union of Jurists (UNJC) reported.

"I have a feeling that I had not been able to show, a wish that I had not been able to fulfill: that of visiting and meeting with the people of Holguin", were the opening words of the historic speech delivered by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, on February 26, 1959, only 56 days after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

On the morning of February 25, 1901, Republican Senator Orville Platt, 73, a prominent member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Cuban Affairs, presided over the only legislative initiative with which he would be known beyond his country: the approval of an amendment under his name, to be added to the Army Expenditure Act and annexed to the Constitution of the future Cuban republic, that would give the U.S. the right to intervene and control trade and foreign relations in the Island, among other humiliating prerogatives.

On February 26, 1869, the Assembly of Representatives of Central Region decreed the abolition of slavery, an essential sign of revolutionary belligerence, under the advice of Ignacio Agramonte y Loynaz, a young lawyer and selfless fighter who excelled in combat.

The contributions made by science and innovation to the country's economic and social development are unquestionable. It is no coincidence that this has been defined by the President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, as one of the three pillars on which the construction of the Cuban government's management system is based.

The José Martí International Airport in Havana, the largest of its kind in the country, celebrated its 91st anniversary on Wednesday, according to the official Twitter profile of Empresa Cubana de Aeropuertos y Servicios Aeroportuarios S.A (ECASA).

The breakout of Cuban independence war 126 years ago against Spanish colonial rule was marked on Twitter Wednesday by Cuban authorities.

Cuba denounced the negative impact on international scientific cooperation against the COVID 19 pandemic by the US economic, commercial and financial blockade against the island and coercive measures on other nations.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel congratulated all Computer and Communications Workers on their Day, celebrated every year in honor of the first official transmission of Radio Rebelde in the Sierra Maestra Mountains back in 1958 in a 20-minute-long broadcast conducted by the legendary Argentine-Cuban guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara and initiated with the notes of the National Anthem.

"I have to confess that going into the so-called red zone is a bit scary, but once here there is no turning back," said Yadian Rodriguez Noda, 22, over the phone from the University of Matanzas (UM), now housing low-risk COVID-19 positives, six days after he crossed the tape that separates the ordinary safe environment he has always known from a different and complex scenario which only a few crazy people dare to enter.

"It was a convulsive but formidable period, the most extraordinary, intense and glorious of my life," Julio Garcia Oliveras says as he recalls his student days and the struggle against Batista's tyranny at the University of Havana and in the streets. Those were his words when I interviewed him, some time before his death in 2017.

Cuba will soon start working on a project related to the lignum vitae (“tree of life”) approved by the Tree Species Program of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and funded by the European Union.

 At a time when educational challenges are greater than ever, the President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, praised the initiative to establish a pedagogical scientific complex in Ciudad Libertad and suggested the creation of an experimental pedagogical theme park bound to be part of a nationwide project.