Assembly of the PCC in Ciego de Ávila
The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC by its Spanish initials) and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, chairs the Provincial Balance Assembly of the Party, which began this morning in Ciego de Ávila.
It is a fact that the Juan Antonio Márquez bookstore, in the main city of Ciego de Ávila, upon reopening its doors on March 24, after several months of remodeling, will embark on the path to become an athenaeum desired by book lovers and local literature.
The members of the Council of State approved two new decree laws that contribute to the strengthening of aspects of the economic and social life of the country and analyzed important issues on the national agenda, in the extraordinary session this Tuesday, headed by the President of this body, Esteban Lazo Hernández, and with the participation of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and the Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz.
In Ciego de Ávila, a joint project of the Ministry of Energy and Mines, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the European Union is progressing, consisting of the installation of photovoltaic solar systems with two kW of power (2,000 watts) in 167 homes isolated from the electricity grid in the northern part of the province, affected by Hurricane Irma in 2017.
All the years of abandonment and deterioration that the Apolo cinema theater took on, began to unravel since a group of enthusiasts wanted to convert it into the House of Music.
Illegalities in Health system are analyzed in Ciego de Ávila
Political, governmental and administrative authorities agreed in Ciego de Ávila on the need to act rigorously against the illicit sale of medicines and increase control over the path that drugs follow until they reach patients.
Trovarte 2022
With a concert by Eduardo Sosa and Rachid López, the National Meeting of Young Troubadours, Trovarte 2022, of the Hermanos Saíz Association in Ciego de Ávila, begins this Wednesday.
The need to increase food production, among other important issues, will occupy the center of the debates of the Balance Assembly of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba in Ciego de Ávila, which will be held this Friday, March 25, with the presence of 150 delegates and about 50 guests.
Assembly in Ciego de Ávila
With the Balance Assembly of the Provincial Committee of the Party in Ciego de Ávila, this March 25, concludes a balance process that has been taking place since November throughout the territory.
Ciego de Ávila Culture Week
With the traditional parade from Alameda de los Locutores to the central José Martí park, the celebrations began in Ciego de Ávila for the Week of Culture, dedicated on this occasion to the 145th anniversary of its municipality.
Frutávila reopens its doors
With a renewed image, after a capital repair process, the Frutávila market reopened its doors, belonging to the Ceballos Agro-industrial Company, located on Honorato del Castillo street, corner of Bembeta, in the heart of the city of Ciego de Ávila.
UNICA convenes Scientific Convention
Under the motto “The 2030 Agenda and the University for Sustainable Development”, the University of Ciego de Ávila Máximo Gómez Báez summons professors, academics and specialists from all over the world to the UNICA 2022 International Scientific Convention, from October 17 to 21 to promote the "exchange of experiences, knowledge and popular knowledge in the academic and research sector".
For a more democratic vote of the nominees for Cubadisco 2022, its Organizing Committee exchanges with musicians and specialists from all the provinces of the country.
The Audiobook of the new Family Code, prepared by a group of journalists and other professionals from various branches inside and outside Cuba, is now available on Infomed.
Cuban Worker Central and its National Unions summon all our people to a massive day of mobilization to celebrate International Workers' Day, presided over by the motto Cuba Lives and Works, an expression of the firm and unconditional decision to continue consolidating our Economic-Social Model of Socialist Development.
The productive linkages between the Gran Caribe Hotel Group and the new economic actors in the province of Ciego de Ávila make it possible to reduce the cost of tourism operations in the Jardines del Rey destination and maintain quality standards in five-star category facilities.
A voluntary work dedicated to the planting of around six hectares of cane on land belonging to the Sabino Pupo Agricultural Production Cooperative (CPA), in the municipality of Baraguá, constituted a propitious space to greet the upcoming celebration of the Provincial Balance Assembly of the Party. Besides, the launching of a call to the Ciego de Ávila labor movement to participate in the parade on May 1st. in squares and streets not carried out in the previous two years due to the incidence of COVID-19.
Specialization in the management of animal mass allows Monte Los Rusos Poultry Business Unit (UEB) in Majagua, municipality of Ciego de Ávila, to maintain favorable indicators in the reproduction of turkeys of the Barrados breed, through artificial insemination.
The III Communication Workshop "Development begins here" became a participatory exercise, an opportunity to contribute to the design of the Communication Strategy of the Municipal Government of People's Power (GMPP) in Florencia and the campaigns aimed at the Local Development, Food Sovereignty programs and Nutritional Education (SAN).
The Cuban Vice President, Salvador Valdés Mesa, appreciated the capacity of the new economic actors of the province of Ciego de Ávila for the production of goods and services that satisfy local demands and strategic sectors, during the Round of Opportunities and Business "Future With everyone".
The availability of a new advanced technology for hemodialysis treatment in Ciego de Ávila allows the guarantee and quality of one of the most expensive medical services in the world, despite the economic crisis that the Cuban nation is going through after two years of pandemic and in the midst of a tightened imperialist blockade.
What we affirmed in a previous note, related to the non-exploitation of the gold deposit known as Gaspar-El Pilar, regarding illegal mining to the East of Ciego de Ávila, could be modified in just a few months, and if the prospecting project materializes, led by the Australian company Antilles Gold Ltd.
A note from the Cuban Embassy in Mexico indicates that in the states of Veracruz and Monterrey there were two tragic events associated with the irregular smuggling of migrants.
There are projects that never find their moment of grace, and this certainty shapes the history of the children's installation located in the City Park and crowned with giant figures of Elpidio Valdés and Captain Plin, which were luxury and exclusivity in the design of the space.
The I Workshop Guidelines for Communication and Visibility of the International Coastal Resilience Project will meet in this central province of Cuba, on March 22 and 23, with a view to gain experience in the matter.
The Round of Opportunities and Businesses that will take place on March 18 and 19 in the province of Ciego de Ávila, with representatives of different forms of economic management, will expand the possibilities to raise the quality of services in the facilities of the tourist destination Jardines del Rey.
When, until March 14, 1,535 affiliate assemblies have been held in Ciego de Ávila, as part of the political process of presentation and information of the 2022 Economy and Budget Plan, the workers continue to express their commitment to comply, at the same time that they speak out for the search for initiatives and options to achieve that goal.
The new proposals of the Family Code Project, which correspond to the existing family diversity in our country, were the center of the debate held by the voters of District 19, of the Enrique Varona Popular Council, of the municipality of Chambas, as part of the consultation process to which the document is submitted throughout the national territory.
Representatives of the Macfrut Fair, the main European event for the marketing in the fruit and vegetable sector, toured agricultural and industrial areas in Ciego de Ávila, during a working visit after the presentation of the 2022 edition of the fair, where Cuba has already confirmed its participation.
According to Lázaro Padrón Pereira, general director of Upper Secondary Education in the province, the tenth and twelfth grades of Pre-university will work on the main subjects during the six shifts of the morning session, while the eleventh will do so in the afternoon. Complementary activities will be scheduled in the opposite sessions.
Approaching distant and vulnerable communities to learn about problems and speed up the search for solutions continues to be a work priority in the province of Ciego de Ávila, according to the balance of the work results of the Population Assistance System during the year 2021.
When this March 14 marks the Day of the Cuban press and the 130th anniversary of the publication of the first issue of the Patria newspaper is remembered. The Ciego de Ávila`s union will have already celebrated and looked back on the results of last year's work, because this Saturday a commemorative act served as a celebration and motivation for those who, from the various platforms and media, fulfill the commitment to inform, give opinions and interpret reality.
The first theatrical event for adolescents and young people, Somos Abril by Guiñol Polichinela, will take place in Ciego de Ávila from March 15 to 19.
“Letters in the city”, name of the Saturday book space in the city of Morón, began this March 12, accompanied by various options and with the aim of establishing itself as one of the main cultural events in the town.
An ASTOC-ICRT brigade from Santiago de Cuba is finalizing construction details of a technical-artistic nature in the new dramatic studio of the Provincial Radio Network in Ciego de Ávila.
The destruction caused by Irma as it passed through the coastal community of Punta Alegre, north of the province of Ciego de Ávila, in the municipality of Chambas, was one of the reasons why Coastal Resilience also focused its attention on Punta Alegre.
The best news that could come with the cool March has arrived: 100 % of the agricultural areas of cold season were planted, which is usually the most fertile stage and the largest extensions in the territory.
The railway sector in Ciego de Ávila resumed the route from the rural community Limones Palmero, in the municipality of Majagua, to the capital city, after six years of paralysis, which is a guarantee of safe transportation for those who use this service.
It seems that, after so many months of silence, music will be conjured up on Ciego de Ávila stages in March, and this is confirmed by the celebration of the IV Jazz Center festival, from the 23rd to the 27th of this month, a luxury event that always brings the best and most innovative of this genre in the country.
When Jorge Ariel Ferrer Buchillón extends his right hand to indicate the extent of the sea with the push of the winds and the swells caused by Hurricane Irma, as it passed through the coastal town of Punta Alegre, in the province of Ciego de Ávila. It is understood the magnitude of the phenomenon, but nothing is comparable to the experience.
Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez warned this Monday that an offensive military siege has been established against the Russian Federation. “For decades there has been a consistent effort by the United States to expand its military and hegemonic dominance, through the continued expansion of NATO towards the countries of Eastern Europe,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
It is not great that someone comes to tell us "congratulations" this morning because that's what the calendar dictates, and that when one, clueless, asks why, they answer that because we are "beautiful flowers and we give life and we are the heart of the home".
The international project "Building coastal resilience in Cuba through natural solutions for adaptation to Climate Change (Coastal Resilience)", advocates for the rights and empowerment of women in four coastal communities in the north-central region of the country.
The increase in the planting areas of root crops and fruit trees planned until 2024 will position the province of Ciego de Ávila in better conditions to meet local demands and meet delivery commitments to the country's capital.
The new school year 2021-2022 begins this Monday in Cuba for Basic Secondary, Pre-university, Technical and Professional Education, the Pedagogical Training of all teaching organizations and the education of young people and adults.
One of the main agricultural production poles in the country continues to develop in Ciego de Ávila, made up of La Cuba Agricultural Company and its neighboring productive bases of the cooperative and peasant sector.
Even with the incorporation of the Primero de Enero sugar factory to the current sugar harvest since last February 21, repaying the debt of 38,572 tons (t) of sugar with respect to the province's plan will require a greater effort, once it is possible to have of the planned industrial capacity.
For the voters of District 8, of Zone 10, in the Western Popular Council of Morón, the changes that led to the current Family Code Project were correct and necessary. That could be interpreted from a popular consultation where there were no interventions.
With the publication on the website of the Ministry of Economy and Planning of a new group of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), Ciego de Ávila has already approved 37 of these new economic actors, at the end of March 3.
The infestation of the Dengue-transmitting mosquito in Ciego de Ávila remains above the permissible levels due to the risk of an epidemic, the public health authorities alert the population to intensify the fight against the Aedes Aegypti mosquito.
The new school year will begin next Monday, March 7 for all teachings, except primary education, which will begin on the 14th due to the difference in the vaccination processes during 2021, reported Ena Elsa Velázquez Cobiella, Minister of Education of Cuba.
In the afternoon of March 1, 2022, the Border Guard Troops detected a speedboat that approached the north coast of Cayo Coco, Ciego de Ávila, and picked up a group of people, after which it headed northwest.
The Piña Colada Fusion Music Festival will return to its usual stages in Ciego de Ávila from April 1 to 4, reported in this city Arnaldo Rodríguez, president of the organizing committee of the event and leader of the Talismán group.
The farmers of Ciego de Ávila began this Tuesday the harvest of the potato, a tuber highly demanded by the population and of which 1,130 hectares (ha) were planted in the current 2021-2022 campaign.
The confirmation that what has been done in communities such as La Clementina, Punta Alegre or Liborio will not be a snack, but rather a comprehensive transformation strategy for vulnerable neighborhoods with a vocation for sustainability, can be read in a report prepared by the Government Secretariat in Ciego de Ávila.
Reinaldo Becerra Acosta, general secretary of the National Road Safety Commission (CNSV), called from the province of Ciego de Ávila to change educational conceptions to stimulate responsible behaviors in drivers and pedestrians that guarantee the preservation of human and material resources.
Four workers were decorated for their relevant career for more than 20 years in Brush. Photo: Jose Luis Martinez Alejo
The group of the Company of Brushes and Plastic Articles (CEPIL) of Ciego de Ávila, held a special morning tribute for March 1, Light Industry Worker's Day.
The ambitions of La Cuba cross borders, because with the 800 hectares (ha) of bananas that Ciego de Ávila has planted, it was supplied and could afford to send to other provinces. “And precisely for this reason, because it is already a consolidated productive pole, large investments have been proposed here and in others in Granma, Mayabeque, Matanzas…”, Vice Prime Minister Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca pointed out, during a tour Monday through the areas of that Agricultural Firm.
The willingness of the Japanese government to support the Food Sovereignty and Nutritional Education Program in Cuba was reiterated by Hirata Kenji, extraordinary ambassador and plenipotentiary of that Asian nation in the Greater Antilles, during a working visit to the province of Ciego de Ávila.
The repair of the Paquito Espinosa stadium, in the municipality of Morón, guarantees better conditions for the training of the baseball teams that arrive these days in the province of Ciego de Ávila, with the aim of rivaling the Tigres team, during the LXI National Baseball Series.
An expo-sale of ornamental plants will take place at the House of the Young Creator of Ciego de Ávila on March 4, 5, 7 and 8 on the eve of International Women's Day.
Today, Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca, Cuban deputy prime minister, tours agricultural areas of the Agropecuaria La Cuba company, in Ciego de Ávila, and one of the leaders in the country in the cultivation of bananas. (News in progress)
The accountability of the Administration Council before the ordinary session number 27 of the XVII mandate of the People's Power led in Majagua to generate the main interventions by the representatives of the people.
The decline in the incidence of COVID-19 in Ciego de Ávila is sustained and there is no better news for a province stung by the epidemic, which paid the highest price for its effects. The numbers are falling; there are reasons to trust their stability.
Against quarantines, remote work and mobility restrictions, the Provincial Comptroller's Office in Ciego de Ávila managed to carry out 60% of the controls planned in 2021, the most complex year in the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic.
The Hermanos Saíz Association of Ciego de Ávila will begin its programming for the month of March with the short fiction film El viaje, by the young journalist Arletty White Morales.
The First Round of Business and Opportunities with New Economic Actors in Retail Marketing in Ciego de Ávila took place this Friday at the Patio de Artex Cultural Complex.
His Excellency Mr. Maher El-Adawy, extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt, evaluated the potential of the province of Ciego de Ávila to contribute to the strengthening of economic ties between his nation and Cuba.
To achieve greater links between the municipal sub-delegations, intensify training actions, reaffirm links with the University, and incorporate studies in order to promote changes and transformations in all road users, Reinaldo Becerra Acosta called in Ciego de Ávila, President of the National Road Safety Commission.
More than 20 workers from the National Union of Communications, Information Technology and Electronics in Ciego de Ávila received the Mario Muñoz Monroy medal for their uninterrupted permanence in the sector, in accordance with Law number 17 of the System of decorations and honorary titles.
The Spanish journalist and writer Ignacio Ramonet indicated this Thursday that the current situation in Eastern Europe could be avoided through a diplomatic solution between the parties. In an exclusive interview with the president of the teleSUR information multiplatform, Ramonet affirmed that the crisis in Ukraine and Russia could be evaded, after President Vladimir Putin reiterated on several occasions that his request was to guarantee the security of his country.
The Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday that the Armed Forces managed to disable 74 facilities of Ukraine's military infrastructure after their attacks, including 11 airfields, three command posts, an operation post of the Ukrainian Navy and 18 radar stations. of the S-300 and Buk-M1 air defense complexes.
The need for public information to be in the Ciego de Ávila media and for them to reflect it with creativity, truthfulness and immediacy, it was once again the call to journalists of the region who, in the prelude to the Cuban Press Day, held a meeting with the main authorities of the province.
Ciego de Ávila is ready to close the 2020-2021 school year on March 5, in much of the education system in the province, and begin the 2021-2022 period just two days later, on Monday 7, after the COVID-19 epidemic will disrupt the face-to-face teaching-educational process throughout the country.
A new stay service in the facilities that have swimming pools, will be offered from this Friday, Saturday and Sunday by the Directorate of the Provincial Company of Accommodation and service to the Gastronomy in Ciego de Ávila.
Everything indicates that escalation is difficult to put a brake on and that the sanctions of the courts, even being excessive compared to other crimes, have not managed to contain this infraction.
The training of the qualified workforce and the guarantees of its improvement constitute one of the priorities of Education in Ciego de Ávila for the current year 2022.
It does not matter that days separate us from the beginning of March so that the women of Ciego de Ávila already feel the enthusiasm of International Women's Day, even when the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) officially begins its day of celebrations the next day 24.
The Department of Foreign Trade, Foreign Investment and International Cooperation of the Provincial Government developed its annual balance for 2021. National and provincial executives in this sphere concluded that, despite the incidence of COVID-19 and the tightening of the economic, commercial and of the United States against Cuba, the indicators show better results than in the year 2020.
At the beginning of 2022, the hopes that the Avilanian theaters would be repaired were dashed in the face of 12 months that looked as complex as the previous ones; however, the good news reached the social networks on the Internet and since then a comprehensive constructive renovation has been dreamed of, just when we seemed condemned to occasional presentations in alternative spaces.
In extension of actions carried out by the international project Coastal Resilience on the central north coast of Cuba to confront climate change, the global initiative “Mi Costa” becomes, by considering the rehabilitation and protection of two stretches of riverbanks in the south of the Island.
All the measures of the US blockade have an impact on the entry of foreign capital into Cuba, the director of Trade Policy with North America, Mariluz B'Hammel, stated at the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (Mincex).
The construction of 11 kiosks for the sale of products in the area located at the intersection of Narciso López and Vicente Iriondo streets is one of the projections of the Transforming communities program, which is being developed in the Roberto Rivas Fraga People's Council of Ciego de Avila city.
The development of skills to implement climate change adaptation systems is included among the purposes of the Community Capacity Building Center (CCCC) of the coastal settlement of Punta Alegre, north of the municipality of Chambas.
A few weeks separate us until the end of the school year in Early Childhood and give way to the 2021-2022 period, with a start date of March 14. That is why the Provincial Directorate of Education, together with the Business Group of Commerce, finalizes details to start the sale of the school uniform, in a first stage, to boys and girls in preschool and fifth grades.
The sales in freely convertible currency of its productions through various channels during 2021 allowed the CEPIL Juan Antonio Márquez Company, from Ciego de Ávila, to have the financing to buy the raw material necessary to assume its commitments in 2022.
Fortunately, the forecasts are based on probabilistic calculations and, although they allow predicting certain scenarios, it does not mean that the immediate future will be as it is. This week, there are 359 indigenous cases reported until Thursday, the daily average behaved below estimates.
After two years of interruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Festival of the Great Wetland of the North of Ciego de Ávila (GHNCA) restarted its space with various cultural activities and the recognition of institutions, entities and personalities that contribute to the development of that reservoir of flora and fauna.
Ciegoplast, an entity that produces high-density polyethylene pipes and connections, belonging to Hydraulic Resources in Ciego de Ávila, is in the group of those in the country that focus on seeking profitability and satisfying the demands of the national market, without dismissing the incursion abroad.
With the return of Transant to the runways of the Jardines del Rey Airport, Canada continues to be confirmed as the most important market for the Ciego de Ávila tourist destination, where some 20 flights are received from that country every week.
When Asleidis Hedilia Hernández Pie, a 14 years old girl, debuted last January with symptoms suggestive of COVID-19, her family did not wait to take her to a health center. “She started with a very high fever, we took her to the hospital, they did an antigen test and it was negative, so they sent her home.
This February 18, we will be doubly happy when we celebrate the Day of the Art Instructor and remember the imprint of Olga Alonso González. First, for the perseverance and vocation of a guild that has been able to bring joy to communities and launch cultural projects in the most unlikely conditions; and, later, because the José Martí Brigade of Art Instructors in Ciego de Ávila will reach this date with fulfilled work objectives and new projections.
More than 450 Ciego de Ávila`s jurists (prosecutors, judges, lawyers from collective law firms, notaries, legal advisers, specialists from the Provincial Directorate of Justice and consultants from the Legal Services Company), distributed in the 10 municipalities, participate in the popular consultation of the Code of the Families.
Much has been written about the Commander of the Revolution, Juan Almeida Bosque, about his courage, his conditions as a guerrilla leader, his unlimited fidelity to Fidel, about the composer, the man, but little has been said about his innate ability to identify with the humble people and, unintentionally, be his leader.
For us, a visit like yours is very important, at a time as difficult as the one our country is going through and, furthermore, recognizing that "it is an act of courage to visit Cuba," when so many hostile campaigns are woven around the Revolution.
When the second week of the popular consultation of the Family Code Project is almost over, it is evident that doubts persist about the scope and novelties of the norm. Likewise, the avalanche of uninformed and/or malicious publications on Internet social networks has intensified, which, on many occasions, do not express a critical stance towards a certain article or concept ─ something that would be totally natural ─ , but rather a manifest desire to misrepresent the lyrics of the new Code. We put for your consideration some questions that could arise in the heat of the popular consultation.
Pandemic times have been very difficult for civilization, but they have also led to learning, with great speed, about how to find ways to save life. An example of this, in the case of Cuba, is the proposal to improve the National Health System, based on Innovation, which this Tuesday was presented to the country's leadership.
The metabolomic, metagenomic and proteomic characterization of beneficial autochthonous microorganisms (MAB) constitutes one of the lines of research that the FSPI Agrecocaribe Project will assume in Cuba in its second stage.
The project of the Cuban Family Code, under discussion since last February 1, gets rid of concepts that seemed immovable and includes others that are not contemplated in the current regulations, among them the term solidarity gestation, a practice until now illegal in the country.
Carlos Luis Garrido Pérez, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and its first secretary in Ciego de Ávila, presented the diploma that accredits Ciego de Ávila as a province that stands out in the emulation
This Tuesday, the leading role of the country's Community Services workers in the fight against Covid-19 and in the comprehensive transformation of neighborhoods was recognized at the sector's central national act, whose head offices were Ciego de Ávila.