With actions aimed at improving water quality, health and welfare of communities, the global initiative My Coast extends the scope of the international Coastal Resilience project, which is being implemented on the northern coast as part of the fight against climate change, to two sections of riverbanks in southern Cuba.»
Blog Archives February 2022
Cuban authorities ratify zero-tolerance against drug trafficking
The Cuban state's fight against international drug trafficking led to the seizure of 4,162.23 kilograms of narcotics in 2021, said Colonel Héctor González Hernández, deputy chief of the Anti-Drug Confrontation Division of the Technical Directorate of Investigations (DTI).»
Russian Premier to Visit Cuba
Russia Prime Minister Yuri Borisov will visit Cuba on Friday, February 18 to talk the continuation of intergovernmental exchange on trade and economic cooperation.»
COVID-19 Threatens Regional Integration, says Caribbean Official
The crisis unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic has worsen a series of previous problems threatening plans for regional integration, said Rodolfo Sabonge, general secretary of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS).»
Cuba’s President asks to encourage interest in exact sciences
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel called on the country's academics to encourage the love for exact and natural sciences with attractive methods from an early age»
German film reveals injustice at Guantanamo naval base
Through the lens of German filmmaker Andreas Dresen, the Berlin International Film Festival, known as Berlinale, screened Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush, a docu-drama about about the experiences of prisoner Murat Kurnaz, imprisoned at the US base from 2002 to 2006, as one of the injustices committed at the Guantanamo naval base, a Cuban territory illegally occupied by the United States.»
Cuba thanks Chinese company for donation of rice
Cuban authorities on Monday thanked the Chinese company Yutong for donating 300 tons of rice, worth 210,000 dollars, which reaffirms the friendship between the two peoples»
The maritime transport crisis and its impact on the Cuban economy
Soon after the world was forced into confinement by the spread of COVID-19 in 2020, the effects became noticeable in international trade as border closure restrictions affected maritime transport, which moves about 80% of the goods consumed on the planet, according to estimates by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.»
A Family Code that brings light, hope and recognition
In order to properly understand the new Family Code, Reina Arias, a resident of the province of Sancti Spiritus, hardly puts down the document whenever her work allows some reading time. She has had to check terms, ask questions and compare ideas at home, but today she refers to it as an all-encompassing text of vital importance in today’s Cuba»
Authorities ratify to guarantee animal welfare in Cuba
The Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) ratified today its willingness to guarantee animal welfare in the country based on Decree Law 31.»