Cuba’s Tourism Minister, Manuel Marrero announced on Wednesday in Havana that the country will commemorate National Tourism Day every November 20th, starting in 2019 in recognition to all workers in the sector.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez expressed his condolences to Indonesia following the many lives lost in that country to a tsunami.

Venezuela and Cuba today ratify their ties with new challenges for 2019, said the ambassador of the Caribbean island, Rogelio Polanco, during the celebration of the anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.

After the approval of the new Constitution by the deputies, Esteban Lazo, President of the National Assembly of People's Power, summoned Cuban citizens with electoral rights to the referendum on the Magna Carta, which will take place on Sunday, February 24, 2019.

The economic battle is the fundamental and most complex task, but it is the one the people expect the most, said Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, at the closing of the second session of the 9th legislature of the National Assembly of People's Power.

The 2018 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is expected to grow 1.2 percent in an environment marked by policies implemented to reduce the country's external debt and the tightening of the blockade, Alejandro Gil, Minister of Economy and Planning, said today.

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.