In the lower part of the capital coastal town of Cojímar, belonging to the municipality of Habana del Este, the preventive evacuation of the population living in areas at risk of flooding began, due to the impact of a low pressure system.

Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, reiterated that Cuba's collaboration in the field of health will never be for business sake; it will always be guided by the values of humanism, solidarity and internationalism.

By the close of 2018, more than 850,000 cruise passengers would have Cuba as one of the stopovers for trips in the Caribbean, one of the main areas in the development of this type of tourism and where Havana in particular is the best destination for trips by boat, according to experts.

The deputies of the National Assembly of People's Power will debate this Thursday, divided into three groups, the proposed Constitution, prior to the Second Ordinary Period of Sessions of the organ, in its IX Legislature, to take place on Friday, when the constitutional text will be analyzed and finally approved so that it returns to the people, who must pronounce on the matter in a referendum.

According to information from the Center for Forecasts of the Institute of Meteorology, the extratropical low will affect from the early morning of Thursday 20 with south winds between 30 and 45 kilometers per hour with gusts higher in the western provinces and the Isle of Youth.

A Spanish company specialized in food, laundry and cleaning services was established as a new user in the Mariel Special Development Zone (ZEDM), bringing to 43 the number of entities operating in this Cuban initiative for foreign investment.

Demonstrations of illegality and irregularities in domestic trade are incompatible with what we want as the present and future of the country, said the President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez.

The Italian group T.O.MA. signed in Havana, in the presence of the Minister of Construction of Cuba, René Mesa Villafaña, a contract worth 80 million dollars for the construction of the IBEROSTAR Hotel in Trinidad.

In 2014, when Cuba approved the Foreign Investment Law and its Portfolio of Opportunities initially had 246 projects, and by 2018 that number has increased to 525, as an expression of the priority given by the State to a policy that is already bearing its first fruits, despite the U.S. blockade, the main obstacle to the country's development.

Deputies of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) agreed to promote the approval of a law on the protection of national production with a focus on import substitution, without affecting the quality of services rendered to the tourist industry.

Tourism, construction and renewable energy sources are among Cuba's prioritized investments in 2019, according to what was announced in one of the sessions of the Industry, Construction and Energy Commission of the National Assembly of People's Power.

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 16 (ACN) Roberto Morales Ojeda, vice-president of the Councils of State and Ministers, said that the country will end this year with the lowest infant mortality rate in history, which today is 3.9 per 1,000 live births.

The economic forecasts for 2019 show that contributions from non-state forms of management can represent up to 13 percent of total revenues to the state budget, representing a 16 percent growth over the current year.

With the participation of Miguel Diaz-Canel, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, in the Economic Affairs Commission, the work of the Second Regular Session of the IX Legislature of the National Assembly of People's Power began at 9 a.m. this Sunday in the Conventions Center of this capital.

The 10 Standing Commissions of the National Assembly of People's Power begin this Sunday their deliberations at the Havana Conventions Center on socio-economic issues of great interest to the population.