National news

Santiago de Cuba_ To increase production and efficiency and lower food prices, was the call made by Rafael Santiesteban, president of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) to its membership.

Havana_The third session of the Cuba-United States Bilateral Commission will be held in Havana today to discuss the development of relations and the programs that both sides will carry out in 2016, Prensa Latina reports.

Havana, Cuba_ The Cuban Civil Defense General Staff will held this Saturday and Sunday, the Meteoro exercise 2016, with the participation of the working bodies of the National Defense Council and its structures in the provincial, municipal and local levels, Radio Reloj publishes.

Taken from Granma newspaper

Havana, Cuba_ Cuba ended 2015 with an estimated population of 11,239,004 inhabitants, only 727 people more than last year, for a growth rate of 0.06 per 1,000, according to the National Statistics and Information Office's Center for Population and Development Studies, Granma newspaper publishes.

Havana, Cuba_ Fidel Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution met his Excellence Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, president of the Association of National Olympics Committees (ACNO in Spanish), who is in an official visit in the Island, Radio Reloj publishes.