Bridgetown - Government and private sector officials from Barbados will travel to Cuba in early May to expand and explore business opportunities in the territory, announced the Minister of Industry, Donville Inniss.

Havana - Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, today praised the ''brotherhood'' and ''strategic cooperation'' between Cuba and Venezuela, which he described as ''brother countries'' practicing ''love and solidarity''.

Manzanillo - Humberto Simon Palomino, local resident of the eastern city of Manzanillo will propose a look at collective non state workers at the 7 th Cuban Communist Party Congress to run from April 16th to the 19th.

Cuba will add 800 megawatts to the output of its national power system between 2022 and 2024 following the granting by Russia of a 1.2 billion Euros.

Havana -The President of the Latin American Society of Intervention Cardiology, Ricardo Lluberas, has said that Cuba has undertaken the highest number of cardiovascular operations in the region after making an annual 170 angioplasties per 100,000 inhabitants.

Washington- The new White House measures towards Cuba, taking effect today, allow the granting of loans and make travels more flexible for the Americans to the Caribbean nation, although they maintain the economic, commercial and financial blockade.