Havana, August 9 (RHC)-- Cuba will participate in the Pacific Islands Forum scheduled to take place from August 13-16 in Tuvalu’s capital Funafuti. The Caribbean island's delegation will be headed by Emilio Lozada Garcia, Director of Bilateral Affairs at the Foreign Ministry.... More


Havana, August 9 (RHC)-- Some 290 Cuban health professionals will join the Cuban medical brigade providing services in Jamaica at the request of the people of that Caribbean nation. This was confirmed by Dr. José Armando Afronte Villamarin, head of the mission in that country, in exclusive statements to Granma.... More


Havana, August 8 (RHC)--Despite the tightening of the blockade, and the adverse regional economic setting, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) forecasts that the Cuban economy will not decline in 2019.... More


Washington, August 8 (RHC)-- The United States is offering up to three million dollars to organizations willing to investigate Cuban medical missions, as part of the Trump Administration’s effort to distort the essence of Cuba’s solidarity cooperation with nations of the South. ... More


Havana, August 7 (RHC)-- An international event will be held in the Cuban capital from August 12th to the 23rd to assess most advanced approaches to combat the so-called emerging arboviruses, such as dengue, zika and chikungunya.... More


Havana, August 7 (RHC)—Cuba is reiterating that the current U.S. government poses the most serious threat of the last five decades to peace and stability in the Latin American and Caribbean region.... More


Havana, August 6 (RHC)-- Cuba has expressed its full support to the people and government of Venezuela, in the aftermath of Washington's further tightening of economic sanctions against the South American nation.... More


President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez

Havana, August 6 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel recalled this August 6, the U.S. atomic bombings on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 74 years ago.... More


Havana, August RHC)-- The Cuban Ministry of Transportation has announced  a readjustment in tariffs for landing and parking rights for aircrafts and aeronautical services on the island.... More


Havana, August 6 (RHC)-- Cuban president Miguel Diaz Canel made a call  to take full advantage  of the resources available to improve the island’s road infrastructure, whose state is currently considered as far from ideal.... More


Havana, August 5 (RHC)--Cuban corporation CIMEX S.A. and the Union Cuba Petróleo will defend themselves in a U.S. federal court against the lawsuit of the multinational ExxonMobil, under Title III of the Helms Burton Act.... More


Cuban Ambassador to the United States, Jose Cabañas

Washington, August 5 (RHC )— Cuban ambassador to the United States, Jose Cabañas, reiterated on Sunday that Cuba is a safe country for diplomats and travelers from all over the world and urged the Donald Trump Administration to stop using the health issues reported by US diplomats as a pretext to impose more unilateral coercive measures against the Caribbean island. ... More


Erislandy Savón won the men's heavyweight final. Getty Images

Havana, August 3 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has praised the performance of the Cuban boxing squad participating at the Lima 2019 Pan-Am Games, after winning 8 gold medals.... More


Havana, August 3 (RHC)-- A modern biofertilizer plant being built in the province of Santiago de Cuba is about to be completed, and will begin operations at the end of September, said Wilmer Guevara, Ministry of Agriculture delegate in that eastern province.... More


Havana, August 3 (RHC)—Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has denounced on the social network Twitter that the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, is again lying with vulgar slanders about the island’s participation in the Mais Medicos—More Doctors program.... More


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