Numerous foreign press had speculated earlier in the day that Castro might use the occasion to announce new policies, but also noted that another possible benchmark date is the upcoming Communist Party Conference in January 2012..
Read MoreMore than 2,900 prisoners will be released in the coming days, announced the Cuban government on Friday. The Council of State said it was ordering the releases for humanitarian and sovereign reasons that took into account good conduct, age, illness and the percentage of the sentence completed.
Read MoreThe 2012 Cuba Book Fair, the island’s most well attended yearly event, will be dedicated to the culture of the peoples of the Caribbean as well as to Cuban intellectuals Ambrosio Fornet and Zoila Lapique. The event will take place in Havana from February 9 to 19 and then move across the country.
Read MoreOne of the commissions of Cuba’s National Assembly of Popular Power (parliament) was dissatisfied yesterday with the low efficiency and poor quality of public works as well as the failure to integrate that industry with the manufacturing of needed equipment.
Read MorePresident Raul Castro called on people to firmly confront the negligence and irresponsibility that damages the national economy. He spoke during a plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.
Read MoreThe Cuban government supported the findings of the Seventh Conference on the Review of the Biological Weapons Convention, which took place in Geneva from December 5 to 22.
Read MoreAn expanded meeting was held in Havana of the Council of Ministers last week, Discussions were held on preparations for the population and housing census to be conducted in September 2012. The results will allow the Cuban government to have more precise information about the economic and social situation of the island’s population.
Read MoreCuban singer Ivette Cepeda commented yesterday at a press conference about the French public’s warm reception of her at a recent concert on stage at the Eigheim Les Bains Arts Center in Paris.
Read More“Today people will see price cuts take effect on 122 types of construction materials,” said Odalys Escandell, the first deputy minister of Domestic Trade, speaking before Cuba’s parliament on Wednesday.
Read More“They spoke of the need for a law against all forms of discrimination,” wrote Mariela Castro Espin in her blog today when referring to the Cuban parliamentary commission that is addressing the issue of racial discrimination.
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