Cuba has the largest network of germplasm banks (12) in the Caribbean and is the only country in the area with an organized program of conservation, maintenance and use of important species in agriculture.

The Cuban strategy for dealing with water shortages is very sensible and its greatest challenge is to use it with more efficiency, said Francisco Arias Milla, representative of the UN food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Cuba.

Cuba expects its economic growth to slip down a gear this year to around 10 percent but remain among the strongest in the region, a senior government official said on Thursday.

The first Cuban Internet search engine for sites within the .cu domain was presented Thursday at the 12th International Informatics Convention and Fair 2007, which concludes Friday in Havana.

To the delight of snowbirds and the unease of climate watchers, the ongoing winter season continues to be marked by unusually high temperatures in all three regions of the Cuban archipelago.

More than 500 publishers from 82 countries will participate at the 16th International Book Fair in Cuba

The development and strengthening of protection systems in natural areas with more biodiversity are today a priority for Cuba, Reynaldo Estrada, director of the National Protected Areas Center (CNAP) said in this city

Cuban Foreign Minister welcome UN Secretary General Koffi Annan

Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Felipe Perez Roque has officially opened the up-to-date press center

The formal kick off to Cuba’s 2006-2007 school year took place Monday at the Astral Theater in Havana, led by the Minister of Education Luis Ignacio Gomez Gutierrez.

The most critical moment is over and I am satisfactorily recovering, said Cuban President Fidel Castro

The majority of the 116 members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) have confirmed attendance at the organization’s 14th Summit slated to take place in Havana, Cuba, September 11-16.

The 2006-2007 school year begins Monday throughout Cuba when more than a quarter of the island’s inhabitants go back to the classrooms.

Cuba welcomes more than three million students to the 2006-20007 school year beginning September 4 with new and improved teaching conditions.

The rains associated with tropical storm Ernesto increased Cuban reservoirs by an estimated 113 million cubic meters from Monday to Tuesday morning.

After Ernesto reservoirs are full and there is some flooding in eastern Cuba

Cuba's eastern zone is the first touched by the eye of tropical storm Ernesto

Ruy Lopez-Nussa, a Cuban percussionist from a family of musicians, celebrates Friday evening thirty years of performing and teaching mainly jazz and popular Cuban music with a concert at the Amadeo Roldan Theater in Havana.

From one end of Cuba to the other, referred to locally by the names of the eastern and western tips of the island, Maisi Point and Cape San Antonio, the nation once again prepared for the challenges brought on by nature, adopting all necessary measures to keep the possible damage from Tropical Storm Ernesto to a minimum.

Cuba"s Meteorological Institute confirmed that tropical storm Ernesto became a category one hurricane

Nine modern Chinese traffic lights will be placed before the end of this month on one of the capital's most important avenues.

Ernesto is the season's fifth tropical storm

Havana resident Norma Rosa Torres, a green thumb through and through, grew in her yard two giant squashes which became news in the local media.

UP until this Saturday more than 500 Cuban and foreign journalists have applied for accreditation to cover the 14th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)

Cuba will edit a statistic yearbook with the most significant demographic, economic and social data in 2005

Over 250 experts from 15 countries have expressed interest in attending the 7th Congress on Marine Sciences

Trans-CaribbeanCable Company Jamaica Limited (TCCC Jamaica) has applied for an expansion of its licence to construct fibre-optic links to Jamaica, but with the matter still under review by regulators, its principals were cagey about their plans.

Cuban actor Renny Arozarena, who played the title role in the recently produced film "El Benny," has been awarded the Boccalino Prize for best male actor at the Locarno International Film Festival, held in Switzerland.

The inscription in the shield granted to Baracoa on September 20th, 1838 by the Kingdom of Spain highlights that, “although small, it will always be First in Time”.

Emiliano Salvador, the name of an extraordinary Latin jazz exponent of all times was given to a park located in the city of Puerto Padre, Las Tunas, in Cuba's eastern.