Cuba Seeks Efficiency in Sugar Cane Harvest Despite Unstable Weather

Havana.- About 16 refineries in nine provinces are grinding in the 2015-16 sugar cane harvest, which seeks efficiency despite an unstable weather, informed sources of the Azcuba Sugar Group.

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 Guatemala Holds Second SICA Meeting on Cuban Migrants

Guatemala.- Representatives of member countries of the Central American Integration System (SICA, in Spanish) are discussing today in Guatemala possible solutions for the situation around Cuban migrants stranded in Costa Rica.

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Comfort for Elderly Adults Promoted in Camagüey

Camagüey.- This year, the province of Camagüey destined more than 600 thousand pesos for the continuity of the program of repair and maintenance of nursing homes and grandparents' houses (facilities where old people stay during the day and conduct activities together), with the aim of raising the comfort and quality of life in these facilities. Read more ...


Cuban Party Evaluates the Economic and Social Model Concept

Havana.- Chaired by its First Secretary Raúl Castro, the 12th Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC, in Spanish) evaluated the proposal of conceptualization of the Economic and Social Cuban model of Socialist Development, reports today the journal Granma.

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San Salvador.- Technical groups of the Central American Integration System (SICA, in Spanish) examine in this capital the situation of thousands of Cuban migrants who are stranded from mid-November on the border of Costa Rica.


Cuban economy grew 4 percent in 2015

HAVANA, Cuba.- (acn) Cuban President Raul Castro said in the latest meeting of the Council of Ministers to face problems wherever they are, ¨we have to go there, we have  to talk, we cannot leave room to a sense of defeatism¨.


Camagüey.- This Saturday, hundreds of teachers of different educational levels will gather at San Juan de Dios Square in the city of Camagüey to be honored for their work and dedication, in the context of the celebrations for the Educator´s Day.


Havana, Cuba.- Up next, the English version of the declaration made by Army General Raul Castro on the occasion of the first anniversary of the announcements made on December 17, 2014, regarding the decision to reestablish diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States, as published by the Cubaminrex Web site:


United Nations.- Lack of safe water, and sanitation and hygiene conditions kill daily about 500 children under five in Sub-Saharan Africa, the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF) noticed today.