Havana, Cuba.- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel reiterated today his call to promote innovation as one of the essential mechanisms to achieve the country’s development, in the midst of the current difficulties. Too much is imitated, and salvation lies in creating. Create is the pass word of this generation,’ wrote the Cuban president on his Twitter […]
Havana, Cuba.- India’s Minister of State for Foreign and Cultural Affairs, Meenakashi Lekhi, begins an official visit to Cuba with the purpose of boosting bilateral relations. During her stay, the distinguished visitor will hold talks with Cuban authorities and carry out other activities of interest, the local Foreign Ministry informed in a press release. Lekhi’s […]
Panama City, Panama.- The University of Panama (UP) will dedicate the International Summer School to Cuba this year, it was learned today during a visit to the institution by the island’s ambassador, Víctor Cairo. The diplomat was received by the rector of the main public high education center, Eduardo Flores, in a preparatory meeting for […]
Rome, Italy.- Italian, Spanish,French and Sweden solidarity groups joined and signed a petition to the European Parliament (EP) for actions against the blockade of the United States against Cuba. Marco Papacci, president of the National Association of Italy-Cuba Friendship (ANAIC), pointed out in statements to Prensa Latina, that for the first time several national organizations […]
Havana, Cuba.- Deputy Minister of Higher Education (MES), Miriam Alpízar, confirmed that Cuba will have a law for this educational level in 2023, local press published. The development of the legal norm has the challenge of updating the sector’s strategic public policies, she added, according to a report by Granma newspaper. Among the topics prioritized […]
Havana, Cuba.-The University of Havana (UH), Cuba’s oldest university, celebrates today the 295th anniversary of its founding, with a trajectory of academic excellence linked to the history of the Caribbean nation. The rector of the academic institution, Miriam Nicado, highlighted in the radio program Mesa Redonda that the UH has 19 faculties and three study […]
Havana, Cuba.- Cuba is currently preparing the special call for the entrance exams to Higher Education for the 2022 academic year, slated for Jan.9, 11, and 13. This time, those students who could not take the ordinary exams for justified reasons will be able to take Math, Spanish and History tests, Granma daily reported. Taking […]
Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis.- The permanent secretary of Agriculture of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Miguel Flemming, and Cuban Ambassador here David Rivero assessed new cooperation opportunities in this sector, local media reported on Wednesday. At the meeting, both parties devised short-term plans to which Cuba could contribute with technical assistance, among other things, the […]
Havana city, Cuba.- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Tuesday congratulated the University Student Federation (FEU), the oldest organization in the country, on the 100th anniversary of its founding by Julio Antonio Mella. The president tweeted that FEU has reached its centenary “without aging, connected with its country and its time,” and informed that he would […]
Havana, Cuba.- The sectoral program of science, technology and innovation of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources of Cuba involves five universities that are prioritizing the development of projects to improve water supply and sanitation. This effort is being managed by the company Interfaz, attached to the Jose Antonio Echeverría Technological University of Havana, better […]
Havana, Cuba.- Cuban Vice President Salvador Valdes received a delegation of members of the U.S. House of Representatives, all members of the Agriculture Committee of the U.S. Congress, the government said today. The Cuban official spoke with legislators Salud Carbajal, James Baird, and Jahana Hayes, who was accompanied by Benjamin Ziff, Chargé d’Affaires of the […]
Havana city, Cuba.- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Tuesday held a meeting with the Argentine Secretary of Development Planning and Federal Competitiveness Jorge Neme to discuss issues of mutual interest. The Cuban leader posted on Twitter that they debated on promising projects in agriculture and trade, while describing the meeting with Neme, who is Cuba […]
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.- Dominican intellectual Rafael Nino Féliz praised the global rejection expressed at the UN of the economic blockade the United States has imposed on Cuba for more than 60 years. In a statement published on the Acento newspaper, Féliz addressed recent vote at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) of a resolution […]
Havana, Cuba.- The economic damage of the United States blockade against Cuba to communications, information technology and telecommunications from January to July 2021 amounted to 37,520,578 dollars, it was reported on Wednesday. This amount, published on the website of the Cuban Ministry of Communications, is associated with the limitations or prohibitions on supplies of technologies […]
Rome, Cuba.- Noemi Rabaza, First Vice-President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), met in her nation’s Embassy in Italy with representatives of groups that are members of the movement of solidarity with Cuba. Rabaza said that her visit to this country, accompanied by ICAP’s director for Europe, Rigoberto Zarza, aims to […]
Matanzas, Cuba.- More than two thousand students graduated from twelfth grade in the western territory of Matanzas opt for higher education, reported the head of the Department of Admission and Job Placement of Matanzas University (UM), Karel Martinez. A total of 2,035 students in Matanzas applied for university careers by filling out and validating their […]
Caracas, Venezuela.- The Municipal Council of Carirubana, in the state of Falcon, in western Venezuela, agreed to express solidarity to the Cuban people and condemn the United States economic blockade against the Caribbean island, according to reports from Caracas on Sunday. At the ordinary session held on Tuesday, October 18, the legislative body rejected “the […]
Havana, Cuba.- Cuba has excellent natural conditions and a growing infrastructure to make a strong impact on the world market of recreational boating, Commodore Jose M. Diaz Escrich stressed. The main director of the Club Nautico Hemingway of Cuba is convinced of this and leads a good group of people who dedicated all their lives […]
Havana, Cuba.- After three days of academic exchanges, concerts, traditional “guateques” (Cuban rural parties), and tributes, the first edition of the Ibero-American Congress of Decima and Improvised Verse winds up in Havana on Friday. Dedicated to poet Jesús Orta Ruíz, better known as El Indio Naborí, on his 100th anniversary of his birth, repentistas (folk […]
Mexico City, Mexico.- Mexico’s La Jornada newspaper on Sunday echoed a demand by U.S. activists to President Joe Biden to temporarily lift the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba. Americans are asking President Biden to enable Cuba to receive necessary building materials following the passage of Hurricane Ian, which left serious material damages and […]
