The Juan Rius Rivera Solidarity with Cuba Brigade, arrived on Monday to Havana's Julio Antonio Mella International Camp where they paid tribute to Puerto Rican Revolutionary Independence fighter Julio Vives.

Cuban President Raul Castro received on Monday in Havana, his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos Calderon who is currently on an official visit to the Caribbean island.

The US-Cuba Friendshipment Caravan-Pastors for Peace are currently visiting places of historic, cultural and social interests in Villa Clara where its members are exchanging with representative of political and grass roots organizations, workers and students.

Cuban President Raul Castro said on Friday in Havana that the country will continue developing the self-employment sector and experiment with the non-agricultural and animal cooperatives.

Young students and workers in the province of Granma reiterated on Thursday their support to the Cuban Revolutionary process in the town of Guisa in the eastern Sierra Maestra Mountains where one of the most decisive battles in the last stage of the struggle for national liberation was held.

The drought affecting Cuba since 2015 is delaying the sowing time of sugar cane in Villa Clara province above all in areas located north of the central province because it impedes the irrigation of the soil destined to this crop.

Personal objects that belonged to Cuba's National Poet Nicolas Guillen were donated on Thursday to the Ignacio Agramonte Provincial Museum in Camaguey where they will be better conserved for the enjoyment of future generations.

The 28th US-Cuba Friendshipment Caravan arrived on Thursday to Havana to express their solidarity with the Cuban people and challenge the US travel ban.

Yolaine Ramirez, director of Granma Electric Company, said in this city that the territory is progressing in the construction of three photovoltaic solar farms, which should increasingly contribute to the saving of thousand tons of diesel.

Cuban lawmakers held a broad debate on housing problems in Cuba, as part of the third working day in standing committees, of the ninth regular session of the VIII Legislature of the National Assembly of People's Power.

Cuban Minister of Tourism Manuel Marrero reported to the People´s Power Assembly that in the first six months of 2017, almost 2.7 million tourists visited the island, for a 23.2 percent growth compared to last year.

The construction of the new bridge over Toa River, which collapsed on October 5, 2016, due to lashing of Hurricane Matthew, goes on wheels.

Cuba's First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel expressed on Monday in Havana the importance to concrete community projects that praises the comprehensive formation of humanity.

Specialists from the Center of Demographic Studies (CEDEM) of the University of Havana and the Cuban Multidisciplinary Society (Socumes) and other entities highlighted on Monday in Havana on the country's potential in taking action aimed at family planning.

The Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Treasury Department is to publish new regulations on Cuba on September 15th, according to aMonday report from US-Cuba Economic and Commercial Council.