Cuba would have for the first time a National Assembly made up by majority of women who currently represent 53.22 percent of the candidates to deputies to the island’s Parliament.
The 11th International Congress of Higher Education: Universidad 2018 began on Monday in Havana with a conference by the Cuban Higher Education Minister Jose Ramon Saborido Loidi and a cultural gala at the Karl Marx Theater.
The General Secretary of the Cuban Workers Confederation, (CTC), Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento sent a message of recognition to the Cuban people and workers just a few days away from the 59th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution.
The rate of work-related accidents in Cuba shows a decrease, as a result of the joint effort of all agencies, said Ana Julia Cleger, an official in the Labor and Social Affairs area of the Cuban´s Workers Confederation.
Cuban authorities confiscated more than four tons of drugs so far this year, mostly marijuana, from packages of caches thrown into the sea, reported Granma newspaper.