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14 July, 2017 Deputies Approve 2016 Budget Outturn

Cuban parliamentarians approved this Friday the 2016 budget outturn report and the opinion referred to it, in plenary session of the National Assembly attended by President of the Councils of States and Ministers Army General Raul Castro.

14 July, 2017 Cuban Foreign Minister Welcomes UN Human Rights Expert

Havana, Cuba.-Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla welcomed the United Nations independent expert on human rights and international solidarity, Virginia Dandan Thursday, at the Cuban Foreign Ministry headquarters. During the meeting, both officials agreed on the importance of the visit by the UN expert to know first hand about the Cuban experience and the […]

14 July, 2017 Cuban Parliamentarians Discuss Computerization Policy

Havana, Cuba.-Cuban parliamentarians were informed today on the new policy of computerization of the society, from its implementation to the first results of this project, which has a high economic and social impact for the country. The plan, which was presented in the plenary session by Cuban Minister of Communications Maimir Mesa before the 9th […]

14 July, 2017 Cuban MPs Analyze Progress of the Country in Plenary Session

Havana, Cuba.-The Cuban Parliament is analyzing today the full progress of the country by reviewing the summary of the main issues discussed during the Ninth period of session of its Eighth Legislature. Since Monday, July 10, the members of the National People’s Power Assembly (Parliament) analyzed several issues such as the computerization of the society, […]

13 July, 2017 Cuban Internationalist Educators Are Honored

Representatives and international coordinators of the Ministry of Education, which end their management with relevant results, were distinguished in Havana with the 50th anniversary label of the Union of Education, Science and Sports.

13 July, 2017 Deputies Learn about Hydrologic Situation in Cuba

In a meeting before the eighth regular session of the ninth legislature of the National Assembly of People´s Power, Cuba parliamentarians were updated on the country’s hydrologic situation.

13 July, 2017 Caravan of Pastors for Peace in Cuba

The 28th Caravan of the United States-Cuba Friendship, led by Pastors for Peace, arrived this Thursday in Cuba, where it will support the claims for the end of the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed from Washington.

13 July, 2017 Cuban Deputies Tackle Down on Tourism Performance

Havana, Cuba.-Cuban deputies gathered in the Commission for Attention to Services have dealt with the current performance of tourism as a strategic sector for social economic development of the nation. During his speech, the Minister of Tourism Manuel Marrero said that in the first half of 2017, about 2,668,446 international visitors traveled to the Caribbean […]

13 July, 2017 Cuban Food-Processing Industry Targeted by National Deputies

Havana, Cuba.-The Cuban food-processing industry is undergoing a phased recovery, which prioritizes the dairy and meat industries, given the financial, material and human impossibility of making progress in all sectors. The Commissions of Attention to the Services and Food-Farming fostered closer the analysis along with the speech given by the President of the National Assembly, […]

13 July, 2017 Cuban Ministers Report before Parliament’s Committees

Havana, Cuba.-Representatives of the agencies of the Cuban State central administration are reporting today on their management to the legislators, prior to the Ninth Ordinary Session of the Eighth Legislature of the Parliament. Cuban lawmakers have analyzed since early this week some issues of national relevance divided into 10 working committees. In one of the […]

12 July, 2017 Parliamentarians Examine Working Environment

The Committee on Education, Culture, Science, Technology and Environment of the Cuban Parliament, presided over by First Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel analyzed a study on the characterization of working environment in the territorial directions of the agencies of the economy.

12 July, 2017 Preventing is Essential to Fight Illegalities

The members of the Health and Sports Commission of the National Assembly of People´s Power concluded this Wednesday that the self-control guide for each workplace is a working tool for managers to prevent criminal acts and corruption.

12 July, 2017 UN Expert Recognizes Cuban People’s Right to Health

Virginia Dandan, expert on human rights and international solidarity of the United Nations (UN received an extended information this Wednesday on the principles of the Cuban Revolution as the right of people to health and solidarity in this field.

12 July, 2017 Parliament Supports Cuban Stance against New US Guidelines

Havana, Cuba.-The Cuban Parliament expressed its support to the Government Statement about the guidelines by US President Donald Trump regarding the island nation that represent a step backwards in the process for rapprochement between both countries. A statement by the Cuban parliamentary Commission for International Relations read that with the signing of the US presidential […]

12 July, 2017 Economic and Social Issues Focus Debates on Cuban Parliament

Havana, Cuba.-Cuban parliamentarians are analyzing today the implementation of the capacity recovery program in the food industry during the third and final working day of the Permanent Committees of that legislative body. Lawmakers will also receive information from the Ministry of Finance and Prices on the treatment given to social indisciplines, illegalities and corruption. They […]

11 July, 2017 Cuban Lawmakers Reject Trump’s Interventionist Policy

The Committee on International Relations of the Cuban Parliament endorsed this Tuesday the Revolutionary Government’s statement on the policy directive on Cuba announced by U.S. President Donald Trump.

11 July, 2017 Drugs in Cuba Are Not an Option

The Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs of the National Assembly of People’s Power, analyzed this Tuesday the implementation of the plans and strategies for preventing and confronting drug use in Cuba

10 July, 2017 Sustained Milk Production in Pinar del Rio

The deputy delegate of Agriculture for livestock in Pinar del Rio, Mario Gomez, said this Monday that in occasion of the central act for July 26, the farmers in the province will collect 60 thousand liters of milk daily.