Havana, March 31 (RHC) -- Honoring an appeal by Pope Benedict XVI, the Cuban Council of Ministers has decided to make this year's Good Friday a holiday, according to a communiqué published Saturday by Cuba’s daily newspaper “Granma”.

Havana, March 31 (RHC) -- According to a note from Cuba’s National Electric Union, daylight saving time will be observed this year at midnight between Saturday, March 31st, and Sunday, April 1st, when all clocks will be turned one hour ahead to 1am.

Santa Clara, March 31 (RHC) -- Sailing the waters of Santa Maria, Ensenacho and Las Brujas keys is one of the main attractions for tourists who visited the Cuban central province of Villa Clara in the first two months of this year.

Havana, March 31 (RHC) -- The vice president of the Federation of Students of the University of Chile, Camila Vallejo, will travel to Cuba on Monday to participate in the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Young Communist League (UJC) on April 4.

Holguin, March 31 (RHC) -- Poster Girl, a documentary film about a U.S. American girl who suffered posttraumatic stress disorder after returning home from the Iraq War, is one of the five U.S. short-films to be screened in Holguin, Cuba, as part of a program organized by America’s Media Initiative (AMI) and the Museum of Modern Art, of New York.

Havana, March 30 (RHC) -- Rene Gonzalez, one of the Five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters sentenced to serve long, unjust sentences in the United States, arrived in Cuban soil on Friday for a private, family visit.

Havana, March 30 (RHC) -- The most recent written reflections by the Cuban revolution leader, Fidel Castro, were published on Friday in the Cuban daily newspaper “Granma”. Titled “The Need to Expand our Knowledge,” these reflections analyse several key events that seem fragmented and dispersed, but together point towards the future, in the same manner that scientists guess the probability of life in other planets by the presence of indicators such as liquid water and oxygen.

Havana, March 30 (RHC) -- Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), closed the 8th National Congress on Gerontology and Geriatrics, Gerontoger 2012, on Friday in Havana. Dr. Chan, who arrived on Monday to attend the internal meeting of the global policy group of the World Health Organization with the participation of regional directors, gave a press conference this Friday afternoon after the closing of Gerentoger 2012.

Havana, March 30 (RHC) -- The Cuban delegation that will attend the 126th Conference of the Inter-parliamentarian Union traveled to Uganda. The Delegation is headed by Ramon Pez Ferro, president of the Permanent Commission of International Relations of the National Assembly of the People’s Power (Parliament).

Havana, March 30 (RHC) -- An exhibition of paintings by Antonio Guerrero, one of the five Cubans unjustly imprisoned in the United States for their efforts to counter terrorism, opened in Shanghai, China’s second largest city.

Moscow, March 30 (RHC) -- Russia and Latin America are strengthening cooperation in judicial matters. There is special interest with Cuba, whose President of the People’s Supreme Court, Ruben Remigio Ferro, will soon travel to Moscow.

Havana, March 30, (RHC), -- The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, in his latest written reflections expressed indignation over the filmed scenes of the massacre in Libya, denouncing the blatant lies used as pretexts to seize the natural resources of that country.

Havana. March 30, (RHC), -- An exhibition of paintings by Antonio Guerrero, one of the five Cubans unjustly imprisoned in the United States for their counterterrorism actions, opened in Shanghai, China’s second largest city.

Havana, March 30, (RHC), -- Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, First Vice President of the Councils of State and Ministers, met with Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO).

Havana, March 29 (RHC) – Cuban daily newspaper “Granma” dedicated multiple pages with articles and photographs covering Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the island.