The First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party in Havana, Mercedes Lopez Acea said on Sunday in the Cuban capital that the Freedom Caravan (Cavarana de la Libertad) is eternal and will mark the path the history of the Revolution.

The Meteorology Institute announced clouds to the northern coastal areas, some occasional rain in the north eastern region. The rest of the country will be partially and occasional cloudy with isolated rain.

The 2017 Campaign of Affidavit and Tax Payments begins today in Cuba, where about 200 000 Cubans will have to pay taxes on their personal income, including more than 170 000 self-employed workers.

Economic assessment of goods and ecosystem services and facing climate change in Matanzas, the island's most vulnerable province, are among the priorities of the local scientific community for 2017.

The implementation of the Cuban Literacy program called Yes I can constitute a method of great impact in over 30 countries among them Nicaragua.

Limitations on the availability of water affect the irrigation of crops such as sugar cane and rice because the reservoirs of Villa Clara province only store 455.5 million cubic meters of the liquid, for 45 percent of their total capacity.

The Electricity Company of the province of Sancti Spíritus executed during 2016 dissimilar investments with great economic and social impact, including those designed to sustain and increase the food program of the territory.

With the service available in the municipalities of Ciénaga de Zapata, Jovellanos, Calimete, Martí, Perico, Union de Reyes, Los Arabos, Pedro Betancourt and Limonar, the province of Matanzas begins the year 2017 with new Wi-Fi connection areas.

The Cuban National Seismological Research Center (CENAIS by its Spanish acronym) made a better use of science and technology to monitor seismic activity in addition to an application of an early warning system to alert the population in 2016.

The Merca-Hostal, created for the wholesale of agricultural products to the private sector, belonging to Frutas Selectas Santiago Entrepreneurial Base Unit (UEB by its Spanish acronym), its sole provider, has been well welcomed in this city.

The state-of-art Comandante Faustino Pérez hospital opened new wings for orthopedics, neurosurgery and intensive therapy, the latest stage in the construction of the main investment of the Health sector in the province of Matanzas.

In 2016, Pinar del Río became for the second consecutive year in the province to achieve the lowest infant mortality in Cuba and this time recorded only 2.1 deaths per thousand live births, a result that is a record for the western territory.

With the reaffirmation that Cuba will never renounce the principles and ideals for which Fidel Castro fought, the Military Parade and the March of the Fighting People took place in the José Martí Revolution Square on the occasion of 60th anniversary of the heroic uprising in Santiago de Cuba and the landing of the Granma expeditionaries, Day of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR).

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 27 (acn) Cuban President Raul Castro warned that the country´s economy will continue to face in 2017 the current financial tensions and economic challenges, but he predicted an improving trend for that time period.

The Cuban Parliament elected 34-year Susely Morfa, leader of the Young Communist League, a new member of the country´s Council of State.