Havana - Youth of the Cuban Federation of University Students (FEU) are beginning today the activities of the 9th Congress of the organization, whose official start will be tomorrow.

Kingston - Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel will be one of the special guests of the 39th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) slated for Kingston, Jamaica from July 4th through the 6th.

As the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nelson Mandela, the historic leader of South Africa, was remembered on Wednesday in Havana with the graduation of 703 medical students from the African nation on the island.

Havana - Cuba´s national IT software and applications industry will be supported by a new decree on legal standards that will aid the island´s comprehensive policy for the improvement of the computerization of society approved by the Council of Ministers.

Havana - Measures to reduce risks of drought and how to face it will focus today the debates in the third day of the 10th International Congress on Disasters, being held in this capital until next Friday.

Havana - The National Assembly of People´s Power, the Cuban Parliament, has been convened to hold the first ordinary session of its 9th legislature on July 21.