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.

The Cuban Parliament today adopted a law prohibiting the use of the figure and name of Fidel Castro to designate squares, streets or raise monuments in his memory.

The Cuban parliament backed a draft bill on the country´s 2017 national budget which includes new tax regulations.

Cuban lawmakers paid tribute to Revolution leader Fidel Castro as they opened the Eight Session of the Parliament´s 8th Legislature at Havana´s Conventions Palace.

Cuban President Raul Castro sent a message of condolences to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the occasion of the death of 92 people in a plane crash in the Black Sea, according to diplomatic sources.

With Fidel Castro´s death, the world lost one of its greatest masters, declared the iconic singer of United States traditional and folk music, Barbara Dane, when receiving the condition of honorary member of the National Association of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC by its Spanish acronym).

Members of the Solidarity Committee with Cuba from the community of Santa Marta, Department of Cabañas, presented a donation to the Cuban embassy in El Salvador to send it to the victims of Hurricane Matthew.

Cuba´s First Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel signed on ·Wednesday the book of condolences opened at the Russian embassy for the brutal murder of the Russian ambassador to Turkey in Ankara last Monday.

The restoration of the National Capitol, in charge of the Office of the City Historian (OHC by its Spanish acronym), with the collaboration of the company MD Projektmanagement GmbH, was awarded the 2016 Bernhard Remmers Prize, granted by the German Academy of the same name.

The 2016-2017 sugar harvest in the province of Santiago de Cuba began ahead of the scheduled date at Paquito Rosales sugar mill, in the municipality of San Luis.

The Cuban telecommunications company ETCESA announced the launching of a pilot program of internet in Cuban homes in the next days.