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Cuba readies to discuss a social security and welfare bill that will balance its growing lifespan and declining birth rate.

The controversial rock opera, which after its opening in 1971 in New York has been successfully staged in several venues around the world, has now a Cuban version.

Providing 99, 11 percent of the residential sector of Ciego de Ávila with electricity guarantees a higher quality of life than that recorded 50 years ago.

Some 1,120 health professionals graduated from the Carlos J. Finlay Higher Institute of Medical Sciences in the central province of Camagüey for the 2007/2008 school year in the specialties of Medicine, Dentistry, Infirmary and Health Technology.

Fifty five years is a short period of time in the life of a nation but enough to confirm that July 26 marked the beginning of a new era in Cuban history

The President of the Cuban Council of State and Ministers, Raúl Castro Ruz, will deliver the main address at the national activity to mark the 55th anniversary of the 1953 revolutionary attack on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks.

"The relationship with Cuba is extremely valuable to liberate ourselves," said Wilfred Elrington, Belize’ Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade during the opening session of the Eleventh Joint Commission for Economic and Technical Cooperation between the two countries.

In Baracoa, the first city founded by the Spanish colonizers in Cuba there is a hotel facility whose name has a special meaning.  Everybody knows it as La Rusa hotel, however, this was not the name given by its first owners when they came from Europe after a long pilgrimage caused by the triumph of the October Revolution.

President Raul Castro on Friday presented a flag to the Cuban delegation to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, in a ceremony at Havana"s Convention Center.

Cuban poet Carilda Oliver Labra said she was very happy to celebrate her 86th birthday, surrounded by friends and many people who love her.

Pabellón Cuba will open its doors again to Arte en la Rampa Fair from July 5 to August 31 and as usual Artex, that is in full Campaign for its XX years of foundation, will participate in this fair with new proposals.

Cuban President Raul Castro pointed to the importance of planning, organizing and working hard in order to achieve efficiency. Raul specifically emphasized the urging need to put every acre of land to produce, pointing out that productive land helps to eliminate expensive food imports.

New adjustments and restrictions need to be applied to the national economy for the second semester of 2008 and in 2009, said  Cuban Economy and Planning Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez. The measures are aimed at dealing with the impact of skyrocketing international prices for food and oil id that.

Cuba's sugar production increased 24 percent during the 2007-2008 harvest, compared to the previous harvest, thus meeting the demand from the domestic and foreign markets.

The 12 permanent working commissions of the Cuban National Assembly (Parliament), constituted with a provisional nature last May, are in session on Monday and Tuesday at Havana’s Convention Center.