In the morning hours of September 26, after the voting had concluded, the president of the National Electoral Council announced that the new Family Code had been approved, having obtained the majority affirmative vote (Yes) in the valid votes cast by the voters. , in a legislative referendum called for on September 25, 2022.

As a consequence of the fact that the 62 National Series will start in March of next year, and not in September as planned, the provincial baseball match in Ciego de Ávila will begin in the first days of the coming month and should last until the second half of December.

The Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba in Ciego de Ávila, Liván Izquierdo Alonso, and the Governor of People's Power, Tomás Alexis Martín Venegas, called for the 2022-2023 sugar dispute to be brought forward in this central province.

Little more than a month separates us from the date set for the Higher Education entrance exams, in their ordinary session, and in the pre-university institutes of Ciego de Ávila, each day counts, while the twelfth grade students, who aspire to pursue a university career, systematize knowledge at the gates of the decisive moment, in which the province intends to improve the results achieved in previous years.

The Constitution of the Republic of Cuba of 2019 in its article 93 recognizes the use of alternative methods of conflict resolution in any field as a viable formula on the way to promoting a culture of peace in our society.

Yesterday, the service was affected due to a generation capacity deficit, although it was possible to serve the load between 02:25 and 09:32. The maximum impact during the night hours was 804 MW at 7:50 p.m., coinciding with the peak hour, of which 148 MW were due to the damage caused by Hurricane Ian.

Some 37 projects, in accommodation, recreational and support areas, are contemplated in the development strategy of the tourism sector in the province of Ciego de Ávila until the year 2030, with the purpose of expanding and perfecting the options destined to national and foreign clients.

The contribution to the improvement of the quality of life in neighborhoods and communities of six municipalities is recognized among the merits that endorsed the granting of the Shield of the Province to the Supply and Services Company for Education of Ciego de Ávila (EPASE).

Although the rainfalls associated with the external bands of the flow of Hurricane Ian do not register significant accumulations in Ciego de Ávila, they do benefit the water table and the filling of some reservoirs.

Yesterday, Thursday at 6:25 p.m., the isolated systems of the western and eastern regions were synchronized and the National Electroenergetic System (SEN) remained operating as an integrated system.

With the completion of the Medical Stay and the Miscellaneous B and Gastroenterology for Adults and Children rooms, construction actions are advancing at a good pace at the Doctor Antonio Luaces Iraola Provincial General Teaching Hospital, after months of work on more than 70 objects of work, which gradually change the image and comfort of this health institution for the better.

Technicians from the Cuban Telecommunications Company (ETECSA) in Ciego de Ávila responded to the call for solidarity and cooperation with western Cuba, after the devastating passage of Hurricane Ian. On Wednesday, a brigade of eight disruptive repairmen left to restore communications in the affected places.

The presence of computer technology and communications services in three defined macro-programs in the National Plan for Economic and Social Development (PNDES) until the year 2030 favors its improvement and expansion in the province of Ciego de Ávila.

Solidarity is not long in coming and a contingent made up of 80 Ciego de Ávila citizens from the electricity sector that today went to Havana, destined for the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud, affected by the passage of Hurricane Ian.

On Monday, the political and government authorities of Ciego Ávila described the results of the communication campaign of the referendum on the Family Code, a law recently approved by a resounding majority, as effective and proficient.

The center of Hurricane Ian left the national territory at 9:50 am near Puerto Esperanza, in the municipality of Viñales, Pinar del Río.The eye of Hurricane Ian was estimated at noon at 23.2 degrees North latitude and 83.5 degrees West longitude, about 55 kilometers northeast of Puerto Esperanza (Pinar del Río) and 225 kilometers southwest of Key West, Florida peninsula.

The center of Hurricane Ian made landfall around 4:30 am, by Coloma in the south of Pinar del Río, with maximum sustained winds of 205 kilometers per hour. However, associated with the transit of the eye over the province, a calm was recorded that lasted 48 minutes. Its central minimum pressure has dropped to 952 hPa and it is moving north at 19 kilometers per hour.

For the third time, the Eugenio Meriño in memorian Interpretation Festival convened in Ciego de Ávila the best of the movement of amateur artists in the specialty of music.

When the Informative Phase was decreed today, the highest authorities of the province of Ciego de Ávila activated the defense councils at all levels and specified the measures to preserve human lives and economic resources, in the face of probable damage from Hurricane Ian.

During the first hours of the afternoon, Ian has gained in organization and intensity and in the images of the meteorological satellite and the Cuban radars; the outermost bands of the system can be seen crossing over a large part of the country, mainly towards the south of the territory.

This Monday, Cuba celebrates the approval in a popular referendum of the Family Code, a decision that in Ciego de Ávila was supported by the 176,449 votes that were in favor of the entry into force of a regulation that makes affections law, according to this report. Monday the Provincial Electoral Council (CEP).

During this morning, tropical storm Ian maintained a process of organization and intensification, becoming a hurricane. Ian is the fourth hurricane of this hurricane season, all of them formed in the month of September.

The president of the National Electoral Council, Alina Balseiro Gutiérrez, reported that the Family Code was ratified by the Cuban people, providing preliminary results of the vote abroad and in Cuba.

Cuba remains this Monday awaiting the preliminary results of the referendum on the Family Code held the day before, in which millions of voters participated.

During today's morning, Tropical Storm Ian has continued to move towards the west-northwest, gaining in organization, with the development of rainy areas around its center of circulation and creating feeding bands.

The work of 91 supervisors constitutes a guarantee for the quality and transparency of the popular referendum on the Family Code in Ciego de Ávila, where it is estimated that more than 331,900 voters will attend 928 polling stations, as announced by the Provincial Electoral Council.

Tropical storm Ian, during this morning, has gained in organization, although it remains with little change in its intensity. It continues with maximum sustained winds of 85 kilometers per hour, with higher gusts, and a central pressure of 1002 hectoPascal. Its movement has turned towards the west-northwest, slowing down to 19 kilometers per hour.

It has been a long road that has brought us to this September 25, the date on which Cuba holds the popular referendum on the Family Code, to decide at the polls the future of a regulation charged with affection, plurality, respect and inclusion, a purpose that, according to estimates, will involve more than 331,900 voters in Ciego de Ávila who will be able to exercise their right to vote.

At 6:00 p.m., the central region of Tropical Storm Ian was estimated at 14.3 degrees North latitude and 77.2 degrees West longitude, a position that places it in the waters of the central Caribbean Sea about 400 kilometers south of Kingston, Jamaica and about 715 kilometers southeast of Grand Cayman.

With the objective of specifying the preparation to face the possible damages due to the passage of the current tropical storm Ian, which should become a hurricane in the next few hours, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and president of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, said that a meeting by videoconference with authorities from the central and western territories of the country will be held this Saturday morning.

This morning, tropical storm Ian has had little change in its organization and intensity, so it continues with maximum sustained winds of 75 kilometers per hour, with higher gusts, and a central pressure of 1003 hectoPascal. It maintains its movement towards the west, now at 24 kilometers per hour.

Superb, without hesitation, with a pitch that reached 83 miles, the supersonic Cuban softball player, Alain Román, dominated the strong indomitable round and Los Halcones from Ciego de Ávila won by knockout, seven runs to zero ones against Santiago de Cuba, and they obtained the tenth crown in national softball tournaments, first category.

The opening of 17 special polling stations in tourist facilities in the Jardines del Rey destination will facilitate the right to vote for more than 3,000 national clients who will remain housed in the northern cays of Ciego de Ávila, during the day of the popular referendum on the Family Code.

Who would refuse to be happy, to have their dignity respected, to be granted the rights to exist and to find spaces and meanings once they arrived in this world? How to deny love, that pure force that moves mountains and performs feats?

All ideas about the Code could result in the same thing: love. “A personalized love for the children, the grandparents… the family”, María Victoria Sifonte Ayup, chief prosecutor in Ciego de Ávila, would say in front of an audience that might not be aware of some legal norms, but that, like everyone else, does know about love.

An in-depth review of the implementation of the 43 measures designed for the business sector, the efficient use of fuels, contracting and accounts receivable and payable, are among the objectives of the auditors and controllers who, from September 19 and Until October 30, they develop the XIV National Verification of Internal Control.

The increase in technological infrastructure based on investment plans is a priority to improve the quality of telecommunications services in the country, according to reports today, during the exchange between Mayra Arevich Marín, Minister of Communications, and authorities from the province of Ciego de Avila.

On the eve of the popular referendum on the Family Code, the young creators of Ciego de Ávila debate the multiple values ​​of the legal document for the protection of the Cuban family in its broadest dimension.

Just a few days separate us from the celebration of the popular referendum on the Family Code, on September 25. The route to this point has been long, and the reflection of struggles, differences, dialogues and plural realities. However, it is a path that, far from ending, begins.

Over there, far away, the phone loses coverage and the GPS becomes the few people who go up the hill or come down the hill, to whom you ask if they have seen a “little bus” with people in yellow helmets and a ladder on the ceiling.

The Venezuelan singer-songwriter Zalixmary de las Mercedes García Reyes won the Grand Prize and the Interpretation Prize of the recently concluded thirty-ninth edition of the Daniel Cruz Cosa Musical Creator Festival, in the municipality of Venezuela.

Just as they will do on the 25th, when the Family Code referendum takes place, this Sunday, around 900 polling stations in Ciego de Ávila opened their doors very early to carry out the dynamic test that verified the logistical assurances and the preparation of the human resources that will intervene in the process, in order to guarantee the quality and transparency of the democratic exercise.

As voters, collaborators and observers of the popular referendum on the Family Code, some 3,500 young people from Ciego de Ávila will begin their electoral life during the democratic process that will take place next Sunday, September 25, in 895 schools in this province.

Cutting the trees that surrounded the Carmen cinema, in the main city, has raised more than one contrary opinion about the relevance of cutting instead of pruning, but the truth is that after the felling an ornament has arrived for the city that helps to understand why. It is a mural that extends for several meters on the sidewall of this institution and brightens up the environment with its colors.

Around 3,000 young people in Ciego de Ávila will exercise, for the first time, their right to vote during the popular referendum on the Family Code, which will take place next Sunday, September 25.

There would be no connection between the effort to hit the pedals and approve a code that regulates the way families are formed and related, if it were not, precisely, for the effort. It has not been easy to get to the point in which the only thing left to the rule is popular support.

At 6:00 a.m. this Saturday, the central region of Tropical Storm Fiona was estimated at 16.4 degrees North latitude and 65.3 degrees West longitude, a position that places it about 250 kilometers south-southeast of the Virgin Islands and about 345 kilometers southeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The willingness of facilities in the tourism sector to join the global efforts aimed at protecting the Ozone Layer was recognized by the Territorial Delegation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA) in Ciego de Ávila.

This Friday, September 16, in order to keep its readers informed, Cubadebate shares the exchange rates for different foreign currencies in force in the country's foreign exchange market.

On September 25, the new Family Code will be submitted to a popular referendum in Cuba, a step that will decide on the entry into force of this important legislation. To discuss the values ​​defended by the Law and report on the organization of the referendum, the Minister of Justice, members of the drafting commission and the president of the National Electoral Council (CEN) appeared at the Round Table on Thursday.

Tropical depression seven continued to gain in organization and intensity over the central Atlantic during the last few hours, becoming Tropical Storm Fiona. The maximum sustained winds reached up to 85 kilometers per hour, with higher gusts and its central pressure dropped to 1002 hectoPascal.

This Thursday, with an extensive program of activities, the parliamentary visit to Las Tunas of eight permanent work commissions of the National Assembly of People's Power began.

Demographic dynamics is transversal to all programs aimed at the progress of the nation; therefore, it must be evaluated at different levels and considered when outlining territorial development strategies, Doctor of Science Iliana Benítez Jiménez, researcher at the Center for Demographic Studies (CEDEM) of the University of Havana, said in the province of Ciego de Ávila.

Experts from the Center for Demographic Studies of the University of Havana (CEDEM) called for a greater integration of specialists and researchers in Ciego de Ávila for the implementation of the Cuban policy of attention to demographic dynamics.

Knowledge —both on the part of medical personnel and the population— marks, on many occasions, the difference between life and death of a patient. Right in knowledge we can find the answer to a question that guided the analyzes of a new meeting of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, with experts and scientists for health issues.

This Tuesday, educational centers, families and outstanding CDR members from Ciego de Ávila received the Neighborhood Prize and the September 28 distinction, indistinctly, granted by the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), from their national coordinator, Gerardo Hernández Nordelo.

The start, probably, would have happened under the curtain a few days ago if it were not for Santa Masiel and Motivos Personales, who have made social networks on the Internet, a constant tool for promotion and to "drag" the public wherever they go.

"We are now in a position to carry out the popular referendum on the Family Code," the president of the National Electoral Council (CEN), Alina Balseiro Gutiérrez said at this month's meeting of the country's leadership with the governors of the 15 provinces and the mayor of Isla de la Juventud.

The proximity of the reopening and the 29th anniversary of its foundation as the initiator of tourist operations in the Jardines del Rey destination, in the north of the province of Ciego de Ávila, constitute essential motivations to renew the image of the Colonial Cayo Coco Hotel.

The young Alexis Soto Torí, graduated in 2021 from the Máximo Gómez Báez University, with a Gold Degree in Law, joined the Ciego de Ávila Legal Services Company to complete his job training period, whose professionals have been integrated into the processes inherent to the renewal of the Family Code.

Two greats player greet each other after so many years: Lázaro Santana and Miguel Cuevas

Imagine, dear reader, if through the amplification of the stadium you hear that Luis Ulacia, Sergio Quesada, Reinaldo Fernández, among others, appear in the visiting team's lineup, and in the local squad's Lisdey Díaz, Yorelvis Charles, Yoelvis Fiss... and that Lázaro Santana will be in charge of uploading the box.

This Sunday, exceptionally and by agreement of the political and governmental authorities of the territory, a dynamic test took place in Ciego de Ávila to evaluate the proper development of the systems that will guarantee the holding of the referendum on the Family Code, to be held next September 25, as well as the existing conditions in the nearly 900 polling stations that will open their doors that day throughout the geography of Ciego de Ávila.

Morbidity due to dengue and COVID-19 in the province continues to add patients to the statistics and, although we cannot speak of a worsening of the epidemiological situation, neither of improvements; Rather, we have experienced a plateau in the last two weeks and the constancy is as worrying as a possible worsening, since it normalizes the symptoms and lowers the perception of risk.

The Program to Confront Non-Compliance and Tax Evasion, which has been running since last June, determined a debt of 1,577 million pesos, of which 500 have been collected, the National Tax Administration Office (ONAT) indicates.

Wilfredo Rodríguez Rodríguez is convinced that the pillar of the results of the Territorial Division of ETECSA in Ciego de Ávila, which he directs, go beyond numbers and the installation of new services.

The specialists of the Young Computer and Electronics Club in Ciego de Ávila celebrate the 35th anniversary of their creation, at the idea of ​​the leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro, with the recognition of those who remain uninterrupted for five, 10, 15 and 20 years in those facilities

Liván Izquierdo Alonso, first secretary of the Cuba Communist Party in Ciego de Ávila, today expressed the conviction that the inhabitants of this province will turn the popular referendum on the Family Code into another victory for the Revolution.

In the fight against dengue, Cuba is focusing efforts on advancing vaccine candidates that induce the cellular immune response against the four seropositives of the virus, a strategy that Eduardo Martínez Díaz, president of the Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Industries Group, checked on Wednesday at the CIGB of Cuba (BioCubaFarma).

With the farewell of Isela Nelson Charles and Néstor Renato Labrada, the twenty-second anniversary of Ciego de Ávila Television was celebrated this Tuesday, a telecentre that, from the most identity essences, is the image and mirror of the Ciego de Ávila heartbeat.

The Council of State, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic and Law No. 127 "Electoral Law", of July 13, 2019, agreed to call the voters of the Republic to municipal elections.

The workers of the Raw Materials Recovery Company (ERMP) in Ciego de Ávila, denounced the impact of the US blockade against Cuba in the management of their entity, where it hinders the actions of purchase, transfer, processing and sales directed to the national markets and overall.

The National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) reaffirmed the value of social communication as an essential tool to work with the people in confronting the COVID-19 pandemic, economic tensions, and difficulties in the electricity system.

With greater opportunities as economic actors in the province of Ciego de Ávila, the right to decent employment is recognized and guaranteed, in correspondence with the constitutional postulates based on the choice, qualification, aptitude and demands of the economy and society.

Ena Elsa Velázquez Cobiella, Minister of Education, and Jorge Luis Broche Lorenzo, member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Cuba Communist Party, verified today the assurances to continue the 2021-2022 school period in the province of Ciego de Ávila.

The province of Ciego de Ávila's plan for the cold sowing campaign (September to February) amounts to more than 20,000 hectares (ha), a goal that the agricultural sector must assume in the midst of a scenario of complexity aggravated by the national and international economic situation, which will severely limit access to essential inputs and resources.

In order to keep its readers informed, Cubadebate shares the exchange rates for this Monday, August 29, in the country's foreign exchange market.

Yesterday, the service was affected due to a deficit in generation capacity 24 hours a day. The maximum affectation was 1,035 MW at 8:10 p.m., during peak hours the affectation was 972 MW.

Law 149 on the Protection of Personal Data, approved by the National Assembly of People's Power on May 14, has just been published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Cuba in its Ordinary Edition No.90.

Exactly within a month, on September 25, Cuba will experience a historic day. To affirm it is not grandiloquence or mere enthusiasm. The new Family Code, which that Sunday will be submitted for popular approval by referendum, is a fundamentally revolutionary document; and its application could have a profound impact on the nation that we are, and on the destinies of many, many people.

"It was hard but we are going to get ahead," this Thursday, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, said at the foot of what was left of tank 51 - known by the population like two because it was the second to explode after the fire —, during a tour of the Matanzas Supertanker Base, where the hustle and bustle is constant to erase the traces of a fire of very large proportions.

This Friday, August 26, the forecasts of the Electric Power Company in Ciego de Ávila indicate a deficit of more than 50 megawatts (MW) in the availability of generation, a level similar to that suffered on Thursday 25, when it reached 51 MW.

Despite resource limitations, Ciego de Ávila guarantees repairs to industry, machinery, and transportation at the Ciro Redondo, Ecuador, and Primero de Enero plants, the three Ciego de Ávila giants that will contribute to the upcoming 2022-2023 contest.

It seems that immunizing against COVID-19 at this point is "old news"; however, it has been the booster doses with Abdala and Soberana that have made the difference in confronting the virus, especially when the omicron variant threatened to spread the contagion.

This Wednesday, the emblematic Miguel Ángel Luna Trova House, completely renovated inside and without losing any of its heritage architectural attributes, was reopened in Ciego de Ávila.

For Dairon César Fundora Pérez, belonging to the University Student Federation (FEU) is a privilege. He says it while listing a part of the history of the organization that he no longer looks at from afar, but from within.

Organization, discipline and normality prevailed on the first day of foreign currency sales to natural persons at the Exchanges Offices to which Granma had access in the province of Ciego de Ávila.

This August 23, the sale of foreign currency to natural persons begins, with a limit of 100 dollars ─or its equivalent in another currency─ and depending on what is purchased, they reported in a special appearance in the space of the Round Table Alejandro Gil Fernández , Minister of Economy, and Marta Sabina Wilson González, Minister President of the National Bank of Cuba.

We celebrate two fruitful anniversaries this August 22: the centenary of Cuban Radio and the 61 years of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC). Both fill us with joy and pride. We owe both institutions respect and admiration.

The Cuban National Health System maintains a group of actions aimed at preventing and dealing with the risk of spreading monkey pox. In this regard, Dr. Carilda Peña, Deputy Minister of Public Health of Cuba, recently explained that the flowchart for patient care with suspected disease has already been defined.

Given the complex energy situation in the country, Ciego de Ávila protects most of its water pumping stations for both the population and agriculture with Emergency Generators.

The participatory vocation of Cuban writers and artists is expressed today in their contributions to community transformations that cannot be postponed, to the leap in quality that is expected in the institutional system of culture and the media, and to confront attempts at recolonization that seek to fracture the model of society that the vast majority of Cubans have freely decided to build.

The execution of some 70 objects of works, in charge of various economic actors, enables improvements in the infrastructure of the Doctor Antonio Luaces Iraola Provincial General Teaching Hospital (ALI), in the province of Ciego de Ávila, to offer superior care to patients.

It is dawning. Before the first strain of coffee of the day is put on the fire, a home approaches the outside world through the ether. At the wrong time, the dial indicates that the driver's pact with the loneliness of the road has ended. While watching the frying pan, someone tunes in a station waiting for his favorite soap opera. While on the other side of the door the wind whistles, people gathered around the radio, the trajectory of a cyclone is reported. With the hope fixed on the scope of this means of communication, a new musician awaits his debut.

There are those who say that the face of the people of Majagua is the reflection of the river: joy if it runs like a torrent, and sadness if it shows its spine and does not show the necessary strength to jump the concrete dam that dams its waters, as has happened in repeatedly.

Like the rest of the country, Ciego de Ávila shares the national mourning for those who disappeared during the catastrophe at the Matanzas Supertanker Base, in frank and supportive tribute to the heroism of those who lost their lives in the honorable line of duty.

No one knows how pain is spelled. No one knows if, in truth, words can reflect pain when it is so deep and ingrained in the soul of the living, of noble and good people. Silence is the way to feel it, to let it hurt; deep silence, like pain itself.

Ciego de Ávila strengthens its educational actions among Men who have sex with other Men for the effective prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV/AIDS.

The authorization of 11 special polling stations for the referendum process of the Family Code in the province of Ciego de Ávila will ensure the right to vote for voters who are distant from their areas of residence for work, educational and personal reasons.

The past  August 1^st., when Lourdes La Rosa left the branch of the Bank of Credit and Commerce (Bandec) in Ciego de Ávila, located at the intersection of Independencia and Maceo streets, in the provincial capital, at the stroke of noon, she knew that she had just been in the right place and time, after carrying in his wallet the cash that, at the last minute, he decided to take out.

The names of the 14 people, who disappeared after the explosion of the second tank at the Matanzas Super Tanker Base, in the early hours of August 6, were released this Thursday.