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Tropical Storm Ian will intensify this Sunday

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Tropical storm Ian during this morning has gained in organization, although it remains with little change in its intensity. It continues with maximum sustained winds of 85 kilometers per hour, with higher gusts, and a central pressure of 1002 hectoPascal. Its movement has turned towards the west-northwest, slowing down to 19 kilometers per hour. At six in the morning, its central region was estimated at 15.0 degrees North latitude and 78.9 degrees West longitude.

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Cuban President votes in a referendum on the Family Code

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The President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and his wife Lis Cuesta arrived at 7:48 in the morning at school 3 of constituency 57, in the municipality of Playa, where they exercised their right to vote in the popular referendum. of the Family Code. At the end of the process, he told the press that it is going to be an intense day, which we arrived at as a result of a process that had to do with the construction of a fair, necessary, up-to-date, modern regulation that gives rights and guarantees to all people and diversities of families and creeds.

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Passing through Belascoain

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In 1850 the urbanization of Havana reached the Calzada de Galiano, with which the total urbanized area reached about four square kilometers and the population was around 140,000 inhabitants. This development continued uninterruptedly towards the West and already in 1870 it surpassed the Calzada de Belascoaín, with an area of ​​seven square kilometers and some 170,000 inhabitants. The capital was then enclosed between the Chávez River, the sea and Belascoaín, and for a definitive Havanan like Manuel Sanguily, everything that was beyond that road was simply “the countryside”.

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Cuban media denounce new violent acts financed from the United States

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What would happen if any country in the world paid money to provoke terrorist acts and sabotage in the United States? Their spokesmen would come out immediately to impose their democracy by cannon. But in the case of Cuba, their actions are very different. Those who pay to unleash violence and chaos in Cuba act with total impunity from US soil. They allocate considerable funds to finance terrorist acts within Cuban society, without any foreign authority ruling on the matter.

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Cuban biopharmaceutical industry will receive credit of 46.7 million euros

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The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Cuba will process a financing of 46.7 million euros with the aim of strengthening the country’s biopharmaceutical industry, the entity reported this Friday in a statement. The loan, signed by the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), is intended for a project to improve the national response capacity against diseases such as Covid-19.The execution of the budget contemplates the reinforcement of the infrastructure for the production of injectable antibiotics, parenteral solutions.

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They commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Academy of Sciences

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Leading academics, scientists and historians of Cuban science met this Friday at the headquarters of the Cuban Academy of Sciences, in Old Havana, in a session in which the 60th anniversary of the institution was commemorated, milestones that marked its history, its innovative projections and the imprint of its first president (1962-1972), Antonio Núñez Jiménez. Doctor of Medical Sciences Luis Velázquez Pérez, president of the ACC, highlighted that the new Academy of Sciences of Cuba, founded in 1962, was the first multidisciplinary scientific institution in the country.

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Epidemiological situation continues to be marked by dengue

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Dengue continues to be the most complex hygienic-sanitary situation that we have today in the country, it was reiterated at this Wednesday’s meeting of the Government’s temporary working group for the prevention and control of covid-19. The exchange was led by the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and president of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and the prime minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz, a member of the Political Bureau. The head of the Ministry of Public Health, José Ángel Portal Miranda, reported that there is dengue transmission in the 15 provinces and the Isle of Youth.

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Decorations are awarded for the anniversary of the CDR, with the presence of Díaz-Canel

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With the presence of Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and president of the Republic, the National Directorate of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) celebrates in Havana the act of decorations in salute to the 62nd anniversary of the cederista organization. The ceremony, in the El Laguito Protocol Hall, recognizes the work of outstanding members and groups in the fulfillment of their tasks, with relevant revolutionary trajectory and loyalty to the Homeland.

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Flutist Anabel Perdomo will honor Tosco in a concert at Bellas Artes

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Next Saturday, September 24, a concert will take place in the Theater Hall of the National Museum of Fine Arts, starring the flutist Anabel Perdomo, in homage to José Luis Cortés (El Tosco), who died on April 18. The artist will interpret works belonging to the repertoire of the outstanding musician, who was her teacher at the Camerata de Flutes. The ears of the audience will be filled with songs such as “Alejandría”, “Ave María” and “Un Bolero”, the latter with the special accompaniment of flutist Lázaro Cortés, son of the honoree.

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Cuban president talks with residents of the Havana neighborhood

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Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel arrived this Thursday at the La Guayaba neighborhood, in the Cerro municipality of the capital, to talk with neighbors and learn about the social transformations taking place in this community, where almost 3,000 people live, reported the Presidency in its Twitter profile. As part of the transformation actions carried out in La Guayaba, the president toured the new warehouse, the pharmacy and other social works built for the benefit of the community.