Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz held friendly meetings with regional authorities in the context of the high-level talks within the First Regional Meeting of Caribbean Heads of Government.

The willingness to continue cooperation in education between Cuba and the Bahamas was one of the objectives of the meeting held today between Manuel Marrero, Cuban PM, and Glenys Hanna-Martin, minister of education of the Bahamas.

Manuel Marrero, Cuban prime minister, participated today in the opening of the first Regional Meeting of Caribbean Heads of Government ( CARICOM) which is being held in the Bahamas until the 18th.

The Vietnam Women's Union ( VWU) expressed its solidarity with the government and people of Cuba, after the fire of great proportions in Matanzas, and reaffirmed its willingness to cooperate.

Cuban prime minister, Manuel Marrero, met in Nassau with members of the Cuban State Mission and a representation of the cooperants working in the Bahamas.

Cuban ambassador to Caracas Dagoberto Rodriguez received the Venezuelan firefighters who helped extinguish the massive fire that affected an oil depot in the western province of Matanzas earlier this month.

 The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations (VUFO) has made a donation of 1,000 euros to Cuba, to contribute to the recovery after the fire of great proportions occurred in the industrial zone of Matanzas.

Esteban Lazo, President of the National Assembly of People's Power, wished a speedy recovery and conveyed his solidarity to former Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, who suffered a stroke and is receiving intensive care in Asuncion, the Paraguayan capital city.

Argentina will send to Cuba 2.7 tons of sanitary consumables in the first of several shipments of supplies to palliate the effects of the fire that broke out in a fuel base in the city of Matanzas, Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero reported, holding that "solidarity and cooperation guide [his country’s] foreign policy".

This is the right time for all of us to commit ourselves more to the possibility and real will to achieve the peace we all wish, peace for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla received a delegation from the Colombian government that traveled to Havana to begin talks with the National Liberation Army (ELN by its Spanish acronym), with the aim of resuming peace dialogues.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla wished a speedy recovery to former president (2008-2012) and current senator of Paraguay Fernando Lugo, who suffered a stroke on Wednesday.

A number of prominent personalities from the worlds of culture, science and education and political, social and religious activists sent President Joe Biden an open letter demanding the end of the U.S. blockade of Cuba and urging the provision of the help Cuba needs after a massive fire destroyed the Matanzas Supertanker Base.

Pope Francis sent a message expressing his support to the victims of the explosions caused by the massive fire that affected the supertankers oil base at the western Cuban city of Matanzas.