Army Corps General Roberto Legra Sotolongo, First Deputy Minister and Chief of the General Staff of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), held a meeting today in the eastern province of Granma with the president of the Provincial Defense Council and the commander of the Military Region to specify protective actions in the face of Hurricane Melissa, according to the Eastern Army's Facebook profile.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, celebrated today the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations .

In response to the potential impact of tropical cyclone Melissa, preventive measures are being taken in the agricultural sector of the municipality of San Luis in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba.

The National Civil Defense General Staff established the Information Phase today in a press release for the eastern provinces of Guantanamo, Santiago de Cuba, Granma, Holguin, Las Tunas, and Camagüey, due to the evolution of Tropical Storm Melissa in the waters of the Caribbean Sea.

Scheduled to begin sometime next week, the Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Plant (CTE), the largest and most efficient unitary block in Cuba, is preparing for light maintenance, lasting approximately four days, to correct technical defects and ensure cleanliness in key areas.

On October 24, 1821, the patriot Rafael Maria de Mendive y Daumy was born in Havana. He was a man of sensitive soul, a poet, and, above all, the teacher who became the mentor of Jose Marti, who would become Cuba's National Hero.

Cuba's Civil Defense recommended on its social media channels the study and implementation of family guides for protection against tropical cyclones, developed in conjunction with the Institute of Meteorology and the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources, with the goal of reducing vulnerabilities throughout the country.

The community of La Jata, in the Guanabacoa municipality of Havana, held an awareness-raising event on Thursday night as part of the national campaign "Against Drugs, We Win," with the presence of Party and government officials, and representatives of social institutions, according to the Facebook profile of the campaign.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez led the reception held Tuesday at the José Martí Memorial to salute the 65th anniversary of the Association of Young Rebels (AJR) and the 60th anniversary of the newspaper Juventud Rebelde.

The Cuban Meteorology Institute (INSMET) announced the development on Tuesday of Melissa tropical storm in the central-eastern Caribbean area. This is the 13th storm formed during the current Atlantic Hurricane Season which runs June 1st-November 30th.

Joint forces from the Ministry of Construction, and specifically from the Architectural Construction Company No. 37 as the main contractor, are undertaking the construction of a new Photovoltaic Solar Park (PSFV by its Spanish acronym) in the central province of Cienfuegos.

The 1rst Granma Rebelde Festival concluded on Sunday at the capital's Línea and 18th Street Station, in an event that paid tribute to the 60th anniversary of the Granma and Juventud Rebelde newspapers, founded by Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.

Under the slogan that information is a battlefield and coordination is the only viable strategy, the panel "Experiences of Coordination for Another Possible World" raised on Sunday as the theoretical and practical heart of the 1rst Granma-Rebelde Festival.

The US blockade on Cuba and the centennial of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro's birth are some of the themes of the Mural of Dignity unveiled at the 1st Granma-Rebelde Festival, which concluded on Sunday at the Línea and 18th Street station in Havana.

The 1st Granma-Rebelde International Festival became a space for celebration and reflection in honor of both the 60th anniversary of these two Cuban media outlets and the commemoration of the centennial of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz.