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The programs intended to boost the food productions, in terrains that were occupied by sugar cane plantations in the past is today a priority that begins to give fruits at the Ignacio Agramonte Sugar Cane Company, in the municipality of Florida, western Camagüey.

The massive distribution of domestic electric appliances, which is part of the energy revolution that Cuba has been undertaking over the past few years, has contributed to the reduction of fires by 63 percent in the eastern Cuban province of Las Tunas.

The Cuban choir Entrevoces, directed by Digna Guerra, won second prize at the 2007 Florilege International Choral Competition, which recently concluded in the city of Tours, France.

In Cuba, people who are deaf can study at all educational levels thanks to the effort of the government to guarantee "free of charge" sign language interpreters in all schools, from the elementary level to the university.

The new drug HEBERPROT-P, created by Cuban scientists, now has an international patent and is available for people who suffer from complex diabetic foot ulcers, including neuropathic or neuroischemic patients

Five hundred delegates from Cuba and other 16 countries are taking part in the 17th Congress of the Cuban Society of Nursing and the first Cuban Symposium of Palliative Care will session from Monday May 28 to Friday June 1, 2007 at the Havana Convention Center

A homage to Frida and Diego; Voices From the Land, will begin July 6, scheduled to coincide with the centennial of the famed Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo, announced the organizers in a news conference at Casa de las Américas.

Cuba is fulfilling its compromises with the Protocol of Montreal in the reduction of substances tearing the ozone layer, assured expert Nestor Espinosa, Director of the Ozone Technical Office (OTOZ) in this capital Wednesday.

Hospice care was high on the agenda for 800 delegates from 20 countries attending the International Congress on Nursing in this capital Thursday.

China and Cuba expressed Thursday their willingness to strengthen sports collaboration for the forthcoming Olympic Games to be run in this capital next year.

The first fire department in Cuba was created on November 13, 1696 in Placetas, Villa Clara province. Later, they were extended gradually to the rest of the country. There are no many data about the first accident smothered by a group of organized men; however, there is news about a women group for the same activity in the Havana town of San Nicolas de Bari.

Public ovation overwhelmed Havana's Chaplin cinema May 28 when the National Movie Prizes 2007 were granted to outstanding Cuban artists Daisy Granados, Fernando Perez and Nelson Rodriguez.

Some 800 delegates from 20 countries are attending the 12th Nursing Congress, from Tuesday through Friday in Havana, focused on the social and human character of nursing.

The running of 15 educational centers constitute in Cuba a total guarantee for the education of all visually disabled children Tuesday, as part of social programs in favor of the population.

Members of the Cuban medical brigade will develop their First Scientific Event in Sao Tome and Principe, from June 6 to 8, a diplomatic source told Prensa Latina. Specialists of the Caribbean island are preparing and revising materials for the event and also supporting their local colleagues.