Between February 25 and March 1, the harvest of potatoes planted with nationally multiplied seed will begin in the province of Mayabeque, a crop that despite its high popular demand has suffered lower production rates in relation to last year.

Elba Rosa Perez Montoya, Cuban minister of science, technology and environment, said on Wednesday that the increase in financing for the development of this sector has been significant in Cuba in recent years.

The Office of Regulation and Environmental Safety (ORSA) made its biosafety expertise available to entities of the scientific park to help them counteract the impact of the new coronavirus pandemic.

At 2:59 a.m. on Thursday, January 21, 2021, the Network of Stations of the Cuban National Seismological Service recorded a 3.4 magnitude earthquake reported as perceptible, located at coordinates 19.80 degrees north latitude and -76.44 degrees west longitude, at a depth of 11 km and 21.7 km southwest of the town of Chivirico in the municipality of Guamá, in the province of Santiago de Cuba. This is the second perceptible earthquake of the year 2021.

Cuba’s Science, Technology and Environment minister Elba Rosa Perez said that scientific work cannot be considered an expense but instead an investment because it plays a strategic role in the country’s development.

Havana, Jan 20 (ACN) The silence kept thus far by international media outlets about the development by Cuba of local vaccine candidates could be broken by the latest information on those projects released by the director of the Cuban Vaccine Institute, Vicente Vérez Bencomo, during a news conference on Wednesday.

During the third Joint Council between Cuba and the European Union (EU), which met today virtually, both sides ratified their willingness to continue working to strengthen bilateral relations and cooperation.

The Carlos Baliño sugar plant, belonging to the municipality of Santo Domingo, in Villa Clara province(central Cuba) began production of organic sugar this week, an important export product made exclusively in this city's industry.

Havana’s governor Reinaldo Garcia Zapata demanded higher rigor and effectiveness in using local resources against the complex Covid 19 flare-up currently hitting the Cuban capital.

Frank Pavon Carbonell, deputy director of Cuban Telephone Company (ETECSA) vice presidency of network operations, said today on Twitter that 4.4 million Cubans access the Internet through mobile data service.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez thanked today in his Twitter account the solidarity, respect and affection of the former Brazilian President Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva and current Honorary President of the Workers’ Party of Brazil, ratified during his visit to this capital.

The Felix Varela Distinction, conferred by the board of directors of the Economic Society Friends of the Country, was awarded post mortem to Dr. Eusebio Leal Spengler (1942-2020).

The provision of more than five thousand beds in isolation centers is among the measures adopted by the authorities of Havana to face the new outbreak of COVID-19, it was informed this Tuesday in the meeting of the Temporary Working Group of the Government for the Prevention and Control of the Pandemic.

Raul Castro, first Cuban Communist Party Secretary and Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel welcomed former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Havana.

Cuba´s telecom company ETECSA announced the expansion of Internet services to clients in the capital Havana this year.