Concentric circles and images resembling the Sun are some of the first aboriginal drawings recently discovered in a rock art site inside a cave located in a protected area known as Varahicacos, in the Varadero region, western Matanzas province.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero stressed the need to further exploit local resources to improve the people’s standards of living.

In the winter planting this year, 500 hectares (ha) of transgenic hybrid corn seed are expected to be produced, Doctor of Science Mario Pablo Estrada Garcia, director of Agricultural Research at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), announced.

The International Congress Pedagogia 2021 opened its virtual sessions for the first time today with the commitment, always renewed and multiplied in these hard times of pandemic, to fight for an education with all and for the good of all.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, president of Cuba, heads today a meeting with the main political and government authorities of the province of Ciego de Avila, with the aim of analyzing different issues of socio-economic interest for this central territory and the country.

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 2 (ACN) The Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) will immunize this week the group of volunteers receiving the third dose of the vaccine candidate Mambisa (CIGB-669), while evaluating the immunology data of its short vaccination scheme.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called for intensive and rigorous action to deal with the local COVID 19 wave currently hitting the country as a consequence of disregarding sanitary protocols set up for international travelers.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz held a meeting today with the highest municipal and provincial authorities of the province of Camagüey about the local epidemiological situation and other issues of economic and social relevance.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez sent a message of congratulations to his counterpart of Nauru, Leonel Rouwen Aingimea, on the 53rd anniversary of the independence of that country and reiterated Cuba’s willingness to continue expanding the relations of friendship and cooperation between the two nations after almost 20 years of diplomatic ties.

Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez congratulated comrade Nguyen Phu Trong, who was re-elected as General Secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP).

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, stressed today the importance of gender equality in the world, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, whose economic effects have affected women to a greater extent.

The Center for Radiation Protection and Hygiene (CPHR), one of the institutions of the Nuclear Energy and Advanced Technologies Agency (AENTA), is promoting an innovative project management for this year, a step in line with the need to contribute to food safety, the fight against climate change, human health and the export of services, said Physics Engineer Gonzalo Walwyn Salas, general director of the group.

A new molecular biology laboratory was inaugurated on Sunday in the central province of Cienfuegos, as part of the national network to face the COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba.

A total of 10 deaths have been reported so far as a result of a massive accident that occurred late Friday night on a stretch of road in the municipality of Güines, Mayabeque province.

On Friday morning, January 29, 2021, an aviation accident occurred when a helicopter, flying from Holguin province to Guantanamo, crashed into an mountain.