For the next school term, on an experimental basis, the third improvement of the education system will be implemented in 154 schools in the country, representatives of the Ministry of Education (MINED) reported today in this capital.

Cuban President Raul Castro and his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro participated on Monday in Havana in a cultural-political solidarity activity with the people of the South American nation.

The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-ALBA-TCP, meeting today at its XV Political Council, ratified in this capital its unity, commitment and solidarity with Venezuela.

With a symbolic landing, young people from Guantanamo will re-create the arrival in Cuba of National Hero José Martí and Generalissimo Máximo Gómez 122 years ago to join the Necessary War, which began on the island on February 24,1895.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez called for unity and solidarity in the face of the rapid development of recent events in the region and threats to peace in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro arrived Sunday in Havana city shortly after 9 pm to participate this Monday in the XV Political Council of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Treaty of Trade of the Peoples (ALBA-TCP).

Cuba maintains its policy of "Zero Tolerance" to trafficking in persons and crimes related to sexual, labor or any other exploitation, by promoting measures of prevention, confrontation and severe punishment of perpetrators, as well as providing protection to victims.

Havana, Cuba, Apr 6 (acn) More than a dozen installations will compete for the National Conservation and Restoration Award to be granted on the 18 th, World Monument and Sites Day, according to the organizing committee.

The 2nd Provincial Conference of Social Sciences and Humanities is scheduled to begin June 20th until the 21st in Matanzas with debates on scientific materials like local development.

The 2nd Encounter on International Humanitarian Law kicked off on Wednesday in Havana with participants discussing the importance in the protection of people before situations of conflict and the respect its norms.

Workers from Omar Rosado Alonso artificial wood factory produced in the last 20 days of March more than 1,400 sugarcane bagasse panels for Azcuba Group, thus showing its stability after several years inactive.

Cuba recognizes in the desalination of sea water an alternative that comes to stay, amid the drought scenario the country has been going through for three years, officials of the National Institute of Water Resources (INRH by its Spanish acronym) said.

Cuban and Chilean business executives signed on Tuesday in Havana a contract of the International Economic Association to begin a feasible study on the extraction of iron and chromium in the area of Nicaro in the province of eastern Holguin.

A workshop on the training and information of older adults: volunteering, and lifelong education, will take place today in this capital in a world event that brings together over 200 delegates and guests from some 15 countries.

Cuban President Raul Castro assisted on Tuesday in Havana a political-cultural gala on the occasion of the 55th and 56th anniversaries of the Young Communist League (UJC) and the Jose Marti Pioneer Organization (OPJM) respectively.