Health Minister Roberto Morales Ojeda welcomed on Thursday in Havana over 30 thousand 600 students of the University of Medical Sciences in an official activity commemorating the 2017-2018 school year.

The over 10,600 schools of all level of education, including dozens of universities, opened their classrooms today to receive over 1.8 million children and youngsters for this new school year.

The Jose Assef Yara School of Medicine in Ciego de Avila began their school year on Monday with over 4 thousand students that will become future health professionals.

The 65th anniversary of the founding of Los Munequitos de Matanzas and the 60th of AfroCuba , both outstanding groups that promotes folkloric music, constitute special reasons to celebrate the carnivals in that city ready to celebrate its 325th anniversary.

Cuba's Education Minister Ena Elsa Velazquez Cobiella arrived on Monday to Harare, Zimbabwe to participate in the 3rd International Education Conference scheduled from August 30th to September 1st.

Gladys Bejerano Portela, Vice President of the Council of State and Comptroller General of the Republic, reiterated Cuba's condemnation of all acts, methods and practices of terrorism, in all its forms and manifestations, by signing today the book of condolences opened at the Spanish Embassy in Havana for the terrorist attacks perpetrated last week in the cities of Barcelona and Cambrils.

The last applause for Antonio Molto Martorell were heard in the meeting room of the Cuban Journalism Association (UPEC), packed by several generation of journalists that went to pay tribute to the renowned figure.

The Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC) will tomorrow award the Corresponding Member distinction to the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2003, the American biologist and university professor Peter Courtland Agre.

The Education Ministry continues its gradual application of its communication program this month on the conceptualization of the Economic and Social Socialist Development Model in Cuba.

The Cuban orchestra Septeto Santiaguero is making a successful tour of the United States to promote its latest album, Raiz (root) Alden González, its manager, said that the album has been very well received, that the repertoire of the tour has been based on it and the public has reacted wonderfully.

Cuban cooperation personnel in Angola inaugurated on Wednesday in Luanda a photographic exhibition in honor of the leader of the Revolution Fidel Castro on occasion of the 91st anniversary of his birth next August 13th.

The book entitled "Realidad de un Sueno" (Reality of a Dream) by Ventura Carballido Pupo in Holguin will be presented on Wednesday in that eastern city as part of activities in honor of the 91st anniversary of the birth of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro.

LAS TUNAS, Cuba, Aug 7 (acn) Cristino Marquez Reyes, one of the most prestigious musicians in the province of Las Tunas passed away on Monday in the eastern city where his work and contribution to culture and to the new generation were recognized.

The Cuban Air Navigation Company (ECNA) made a call to young people between 20 and 35 years old, both men and women, to enroll in the Air Traffic Controller course organized by that entity.