On January first new migratory measures approved in October 2017 came into force and are part of the continuous and irreversible updating process Cuba started 5 years ago.

The eastern Cuban province of Camaguey will keep the expansion of the use of renewable energy sources when a new photovoltaic park, which is already being assembled in the municipality of Sierra de Cubitas will become operational, as well as the installation of another three during 2018.

At 03:39 pm on Tuesday, January 2, the Station Network of the Cuban National Seismological Service registered a perceptible earthquake, located at the coordinates of 19.79 degrees of North Latitude and 76.26 degrees of West Longitude. , to 24 km to the south of the El Frances beach, in the municipality of Guamá, province Santiago de Cuba, with a magnitude of 3.0 and a depth of 34.0 km.

The First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party in Havana, Mercedes Lopez Acea said on Friday that 2017 was a year of tremendous efforts for the population in the capital city, revolutionary reaffirmation and convctions that work in favor of the Revolution must continue.

Cuba and Tunisia will take up commercial exchanges in sectors of mutual interests, informed CubaMinrex website on Tuesday.

The municipality of Songo-La Maya in the province of Santiago de Cuba celebrated on Tuesday the 59 th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution with nine new social centers, advances in the production and services among others.

The General Secretary of the Cuban Workers Confederation, (CTC), Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento sent a message of recognition to the Cuban people and workers just a few days away from the 59th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution.

Cuban President Raul Castro said on Thursday in Havana that the solution to the dual currency cannot be prolonged any longer and it will change the country.

Cuba´s Health Minister, Roberto Morales Ojeda congratulated the professors of the sector on Educator Day.

A regional forum on science and technique with the participation of representatives from the central provinces ended on Friday in Ciego de Avila aimed at promoting sustainable agriculture on agro ecological bases and training of harvesters.

Because of the exceptional situation caused by Hurricane Irma, the Cuban Parliament unanimously approved to extend the current period of the VIII Legislature that had to cease its functions on February 24, and the new deputies will take office on April 19, 2018.

New rules to streamline the evaluation and authorization processes of projects with foreign investment are in the final phase of approval, according to a report presented to the representatives of the Economic Affairs Commission of the Cuban Parliament.

The Central Committee of the Cuban Communist party held on Wednesday its Fourth Plenary session, chaired by its First Secretary, Cuban president Raul Castro.

The potentialities of marketing Cuban music without sweetening its essence, message and authenticity, were debated today by the deputies of the Commission of Education, Culture, Science, Technology and Environment, as a prelude to the tenth period ordinary Parliament, in its eighth legislature.

The deputies of the Commission for Services, of the Cuban Parliament, were informed that thanks to the measures adopted in the transport sector, at the end of October the amount passengers transported compared to the same period of the previous year had grown 17.8 percent.