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Cuba and Surinam have laid the bases to continue working together with the recent signing of the 'Agreed Minutes,' that covers several cooperation projects.

Cuban scientists from nine institutions met this week to analyze the possibilities to produce ethanol from sugarcane byproducts and other alternative sources without sacrificing food.

Camagüey was added to the list of provinces that offers Refractive Surgery services in Cuba, which main object is to treat sight conditions such as: myopia, hipermetropia, and astigmatism.

The mountainous Cuban municipality of Guama will be the first in the country to be fully supplied with electricity produced by 17 hydro-electric generators.

Using 1400 centistokes of national crude oil at the “Lidio Ramón Pérez” Thermoelectric Plant (CTE, in Spanish), has saved the country nearly 20 million US dollars in Felton, Mayarí, Holguin in 2007.

Cuban Deputy Minister of Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation ''MINVEC'', Orlando Requejo Gual, arrived on Thursday in Paramaribo.

The Fifth International Symposium on Sustainable Management of Forest Resources will take place in the westernmost province of Pinar del Rio on April 23-26 with the participation of researches and specialists from nearly 20 countries.

Three Chinese TV channels are being broadcast in 45,400 hotel rooms in Cuba.

Though the facts are not widely reported around the world, Cuba supplies aid to a number of countries and one of the biggest aid schemes is in Bolivia.

Cuba will only jump on the ethanol bandwagon if it can produce the biofuel from sugar cane as a by-product that does not affect its sugar output, local experts said.

Cuba will reduce this year the importation of ground gypsum used in the production of cement while it makes efforts to completely eliminate the purchase of this mineral abroad.

Today it can be seen in nearly 45 500 hotel rooms and also in health and education centers, diplomatic headquarters and cable networks associated to the reception points.

The meteorological phenomenon "La Nina" is to have an influence this year in Cuba, where will cause a period drier than normal and could favor, if it maintains, a greater formation of tropical storms.

The UNDP Caribbean Risk Management Initiative plans two studies in the area on gender, management of risk and climate change, announced Karen Bernard, director of the UN agency in the region.

The last hours rains were a “blessing” to the tobacco fields of Pinar, which are now at their best with more than 50 000 people working in the harvest, 11 200 out of them growers of the leaf.