Authorities highlight work of Cuban scientific community on its day Authorities highlight work of Cuban scientific community on its day Havana, Jan 15 ( Prensa Latina) The Cuban Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA) on Friday highlighted the work of the scientific community and urged young people to work in a responsible and appropriate way, on the occassion of the national day of that discipline. Established on January 15, the Day of Cuban Science is inspired in a promisory phrase by the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, a year after the triumph of 1959. At the time, at the assembly room of the Academy of Sciences, he said, 'The future of our homeland must necessarily be a future of men of science; it must be a future of men of thinking…'