Dr. Peter Agre was given the Honoris Causa in Chemistry for Havana University.

Dr. Peter Agre, from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, received today the Honoris Causa degree in Chemical Sciences from the University of Havana, as part of the activities of the QUIMICUBA 2024 congress.

A tropical depression is likely to form within the next couple of days.

Experts raised the likelihood to 80 percent the formation of a tropical depression, noting that the weather event would later become a storm as it advances northward through the Caribbean Sea, having high odds of hitting Cuba.