• Four Cuban coastal settlements implement ecosystem and community-based solutions for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. In Punta Alegre, north of Ciego de Ávila, the results can be seen

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.

Keeping it beautiful is a permanent commitment of the collective of the Cayo Coco air terminal. Photo: Jose Luis Martinez Alejo

If they were able to recover in record time­, together with the builders, the facility that Hurricane Irma shattered in 2017, it was evident that the Jardines del Rey international airport in Cayo Coco could neutralize COVID-19 with compliance of health protocols.

The corresponding ministry on its official website has informed the teaching calendar for the new school year 2022-2023 in Higher Education.

If there is a lesson to be learned from the first weeks of consultation on the Family Code project, it is the need to study it in depth, to read it and reread it, to understand its content. There will be no gaps for misinterpretation or misrepresentation, not only for those born of ignorance but also for those arising from ill will.

As part of the strengthening of the National Mareographic Network led by the GEOCUBA Business Group, the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICIMAR) and the Institute of Meteorology (INSMET), a new Radar Station will be incorporated to the north of Ciego de Ávila that will emit its real time data.

Residents of District 65, gathered at the Celia Sánchez School. Photos: Katia

Two doubts on the table was the balance left by the consultation of the Family Code in Circumscription 65, of the Indalecio Montejo Popular Council, in the main city of Ciego de Ávila.

On the third floor of a tiled building, love emanates.

The commitment of the Greater Antilles with mitigation and adaptation to climate change was highlighted in the province of Ciego de Ávila by Lucía Lacalle Martín, cooperation attaché for the Environment, Climate Change and Renewable Energy of the Delegation of the European Union (EU) in Cuba.

Veronica has never spent a February 14 with a partner, she has not been lucky in love. Diana only needed seven days to seduce Bryan. Yaima was released from prison two months ago and, despite what she experienced, thinking about her children has given her strength. Redan and Ely found in social networks a different way to fall in love.

Martín Alonso Gómez is a “studied” farmer with great knowledge, who speaks of circular economy with the same ease as the tomato production cycle.

A few hours ago, the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) reported on its Twitter account that the Cuban drug Heberprot-P was registered in South Korea.

Apparently, almost two years have not been enough to straighten out the implementation of remote work in Ciego de Ávila, which continues to be “pigeonholed” as an alternative and not a solution, when it comes to provide services and fulfill productive tasks efficiently.

Among all the innovations that have emerged in Cuba in recent years from the efforts of the government and institutions in the process of computerization of society, Transfermóvil, a payment enabling platform, arrives this February 10 for its seventh anniversary. With the merit of continuing to grow, with 2.8 million users, thanks to its constant evolution and the new and successful features that it has been incorporating in each update.

The Raw Materials Recovery Company in Ciego de Ávila launches alternatives to give benefit to what it collects and thereby promote productive chains that give higher levels of sales and satisfy the demand of the territory.

A meeting between the members of the Juan Almeida Bosque Patriotic Chair: example of a combatant, and several guests marked the beginning of the day of homage in Ciego de Ávila to the outstanding revolutionary, on the celebration of the 95th anniversary of his birthday on February 17.

With the presentation of the promotional campaign for the 60th anniversary of the Indigenous Hatuey: Pasture and Forage Experimental Station, attached to the University of Matanzas, the Final Workshop of the FSPI Agrecocaribe Project continues in Ciego de Ávila.

The Passage of the Winds pushed 292 Haitians to the west who were looking for the north. It was very difficult for them to find him. Moreover, it is very easy to predict the arrival of a boat packed with emigrants who plunged into a strait of barely 80 kilometers, swirled by strong sea currents.

The National Electric System (SEN in Spanish) receives the contribution of clean and sustainable energy from the three solar parks that operate in Ciego de Ávila, which maintain productive stability.

If Professor Olga Mesa Castillo has stated that "Family Law is the most sentimental of Rights", it could be said that the Family Code is the most social of codes.

The rector of the "Máximo Gómez Báez" University of Ciego de Ávila, Dr. Cs Yurisbel Gallardo Ballat, signed a collaboration agreement with the Training Institute for Autonomous Personal Improvement of Mexico, during the 2022 University Congress, which concludes this Friday.

After a closure in services caused by the pandemic stage, the workers of La Romagnola restaurant, located in the city of Ciego de Ávila, reopen their doors today, Wednesday.

The Public Health authorities foresee some 67 births by the end of the first quarter of this year in the municipality of Chambas.

With the identification of the effective areas of change, the Franco-Cuban project FSPI Agrecocaribe lays the foundations for its second intervention in the Caribbean based on new alliances both in the academic field and in terms of scientific innovation.

On Saturday, February 5, Ciego de Ávila citizens learned that a group of advisers and experts from the Ministry of Public Health "accompany local specialists in epidemiological assistance and the clinical management of cases”, because here and on La Isla de la Juventud “the highest number of cases and deaths are being reported” at the meeting of the Temporary Group of the Government for the prevention and control of the new coronavirus.

The start of milling at the Ciro Redondo Sugar Mill and its synchronization with the bioelectric plant seemed settled at the beginning of January 2022. However, the joy lasted for a moment and the exchange parameters returned to put the harvest in this province at risk, where the large investment, valued at more than 330 million pesos, does not finish seeing the light and translate into sugar and energy.

They carry on their shoulders, like the people who follow them, the strength of a country. They have earned the respect of the public because they are not one of the artists who are "praying to be censored to become famous", they know that roads are made with blood and hope / and not coloring the waste of praise.

The residents shared with the Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba their concerns regarding the quality of services

For four years, Dr. Dayanni Laffita Romero and her family have been living in the house-office of the community of Tuero, in Morón, a building that lacks spaces and good structures to provide shelter and health. That reality must begin to change in 2022, when the comprehensive transformation program for vulnerable neighborhoods stops there.

Driving mopeds implies knowing and complying with the Traffic Law. Photo: Alejandro Garcia

When a few days ago, the train ran over a 13-year-old teenager, in the main city, a fact that overwhelmed and mourned. A tragic event like always intensified fears and reflection, above all, because on the road neither drivers nor pedestrians are exempt from danger.

In 2022, CEPIL workers must make 923,900 brooms. Photo: Alejandro Garcia Sanchez

In one of the industries with the greatest economic impact in Ciego de Ávila, the Juan Antonio Márquez Brushes and Plastic Items Company (CEPIL), the usual deficiencies do not prevent them from projecting a year in which a growth of 48 percent is proposed with respect to what was achieved in 2021.

Beauty, decoration and perfection distinguish the furniture made by the furniture industry in Ciego de Ávila for the Tourism sector, this year for hotel facilities at the Jardines del Rey complex.

Bioelectricity seems to be the owner of a certain mysticism. Photo: Alejandro Garcia

Seen from below, where it begins to be born, one imagines that the first bioelectric plant built in Cuba has claims of eternity, and even seems to possess a certain mysticism. Stored marabou biomass appears and hides; some very high eaves where men tied to security tapes once worked like ants; thick, insulated steam pipes, a generator that vibrated during the first tests; two boilers enclosed in a metal building 42 meters high by 14 wide… an ecstatic hum.

The pedagogical practices in the professional technical training of agricultural careers focused the attention of this Friday during the Final Workshop of the FSPI Agrecocaribe Project, which takes place at the Grand Muthu Cayo Guillermo Incentives and Events in the tourist pole King's gardens.

The 90th anniversary of Commander Camilo Cienfuegos (Havana, February 6, 1932) arrives in 2022, when evoking him once again encourages his compatriots with the springs of a closeness that neither death nor time have managed to blur.

Ciego de Ávila has just lost two games in a row against Mayabeque in the 61st National Baseball Series. Moreover, when it comes to fan views, there's plenty to choose from.

Although we are no longer fully aware, the curve of COVID-19 infections in Ciego de Ávila is not descending as fast as the undeclared, but factual, normality in which the province lives would seem to suggest. Much has to do with the way the disease is progressing and the perception of the moment.

The beginning of 2022 arrives in terms of epidemiology with indicators that, at first, could make us happy, but later, in an exercise of deeper interpretation, they leave us wanting, because the Aedes aegypti mosquito has not stopped biting, no matter how let the numbers illustrate an improvement.

Cuba is freer today, 60 years ago, since the day when more than a million people cheered, applauded and gave their vote of support to the famous document entitled Second Declaration of Havana (February 4, 1962).

The first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, received this Wednesday at the Palace of the Revolution the members of a delegation made up of representatives of the Group of the European United Confederal Left/Nordic Green Left who visit our country.

Despite the limitations of resources, accentuated by the economic, financial and commercial blockade of the United States against Cuba, the Base Business Unit (UEB) Transmetro Morón, in the province of Ciego de Ávila, ensures the daily transfer of the workers of the Jardines del Rey tourist destination.

The execution of a project aimed at the integrated management of the Great Wetland of the North of Ciego de Ávila (GHNCA), the second largest of its kind in Cuba, after the Ciénaga de Zapata, complements the country's efforts to achieve sustainable development and adaptation to climate change.