Upon receiving the trophy accrediting the Blue Park Award, in the Golden category, the Jardines de la Reina National Park was confirmed as the 21st oceanic protected area in the world and the only one in Cuba to obtain this award, conferred by the Marine Conservation Institute of the USA.
That afternoon-night, when Misdalys López Marrero rushed out of her bathroom after noticing the flickering of the lights, she had already sensed the worst of her fears; minutes later the refrigerator machine would confirm it, by not starting at all.
The actions carried out for eight years by the participants in the international project Connecting Landscapes in the special region for sustainable development (REDS) Bamburanao, in the center of the country, achieve an impact on the conservation of this mountainous ecosystem and improve the quality of life of its inhabitants.
The red flag with the emblem of the trade union movement and the slogan Cuba Lives and Works, the main motto of the imminent May 1st party, toured the streets, historic places and workplaces of the Ciro Redondo municipality, located in the center of the province of Ciego de Ávila.
Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of Cuba, congratulates Liván Izquierdo Alonso, who at the end of last March was elected the highest political authority in Ciego de Ávila
Liván Izquierdo Alonso, member of the Central Committee of the Party and new first secretary in the province of Ciego de Ávila, upon arrival in the territory finds tall grass in the fields, decreased dairy and agro-sugar production; sky-high prices, tourism diminished by the global economic crisis, Covid-19 and the stubborn US economic blockade against Cuba. It also finds Ciego de Ávila`s citizens eager to do things and convinced that "the day there is no combat will be a day wasted or misused."
The May 1st parade will be an opportunity for the workers of the Roberto Rodríguez Provincial General Teaching Hospital, members of the block that will march at the forefront in the province of Ciego de Ávila, to reject the limitations imposed by the US blockade on the development of the medicine in Cuba.
With the eyes of an artist, Javier Bravo Rojas observes his farm La Idalia ―at the foot of the section of the Bamburanao mountain range that crosses the territory of Chambas, right in the Rincón de Mabuya― and imagines shapes and colors that later shape his hands and those of his family.
At the foot of eventual pipes and old wells, the brains that inhabit the Majagua community of La Teresita, were about to become water. For 14 years, the absence of the liquid through an Aqueduct network, kept almost sixty houses dry (currently, 162 people). There, in that rocky strip, in that squalid arm that breaks off from the Central Highway, with full tanks like an oasis, the luxury of a spouting faucet was practically unthinkable.
Today, I woke up thinking about a question that a friend from the "job" asked me a few days ago. Why do we celebrate this May 1st? After two years on hiatus due to the pandemic, next Sunday, the call to parade in our squares has many personal, social and authentic reasons that I would like to share as I did with my children:
To put speed, without this undermining the quality of the works, and to be detailed in everything that is done for the people of Ciego de Ávila, Liván Izquierdo Alonso, member of the Central Committee and first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in the province and Governor Tomás Alexis Martín were called.
Of course, there are not a few dissatisfactions of Ciego de Ávila`s inhabitants in recent weeks on the subject of High Prices and speculation.
A bottle of oil at 600 or 700 pesos, a package of chicken at 800, a bag of yellow milk at a thousand…, ads and offers that come to you from any network, both the one they call “social” and are built from anonymity of the internet like that other one that goes from mouth to mouth around the neighborhood and "solves" you, or rather, resells you, five pounds of rice at the end of the month.
From the policy of promoting the professional work of the Party to cadres of the Union of Young Communists (UJC) with adequate trajectory and results, as well as in correspondence with the planned renewal process, it was submitted to the consideration of the National Committee —by the consultation method—a new cadre movement in the youth political vanguard.
In the hills of Florencia, if you ask for Yamilé Oria Hernández, you may never find her; instead, inquire about countrywoman and you will immediately have references to one of the most recognized women in the area, dedicated for more than 10 years to pig farming and promoter of harmonious practices with the environment.
Now, those attending the José Ramón Cepero stadium in Ciego de Ávila can enjoy classic products or Artex stars related to Ciego de Ávila baseball; initiative completed in less than a week, which supports the communication campaign #LatirAvileño.
The most recent publications of the Ministry of Economy and Planning, added three new micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and a non-agricultural cooperative (CNoA) in Ciego de Ávila, with which the province reached 62 of these new actors, just when 3,074 have been approved in the country since the beginning of this process in September 2021.
The month of April brought good news for Ciego de Ávila`s citizens. They will be able to extract cash from their bank accounts associated with a magnetic card, without having to go to an ATM or a bank branch, thanks to the Extra Cash service. An option that is available at 56 warehouses in the province and which can be used, for the time, by users of the EnZona payment platform.
The festival of the world proletariat is approaching. Moreover, collectives and outstanding workers in union work, production, research, teaching and services, as part of the activities for the important day, are honored in Ciego de Ávila.
In the province of Ciego de Ávila, the digitization of the different Consumer Registry Offices (Oficodas) continues with the O.R.E.G.I computer system, now in version 2.2.
The Revolution is an immense work defended by the workers and the people as the main protagonists. Such conviction was reaffirmed in the tribute activity to the group of the Provincial Company of Legal Services of Ciego de Ávila, which ratified the condition of National Vanguard.
With the delivery of the national distinguished recognition to the workers of Musicávila, this group is the only one of the Culture Union in Ciego de Ávila that has so far held such a high distinction in the socialist emulation of 2021.
Knowing the story narrated by the combatant Diosdado Morales Camacho, immerses those who listen to him in a gallery of images that allow them to travel through the most important events of the Cuban Revolution.
With the blood of its most courageous sons, the country has written glorious pages of its history. A cunning setback took the lives of seven Cubans, some of them very young, on April 15, 1961 in the bombing of the airports of Ciudad Libertad, San Antonio de los Baños and Santiago de Cuba, in what would be the prelude to an invasion.
Cuba applies modern surgery and eye care techniques, some with a significant impact on the recovery time of patients, according to what was revealed in the sessions of the Ciego de Ávila chapter of the 1st. Traveling National Congress of Ophthalmology.
This Sunday, the first celebration of Ponle Corazón program fromCiego de Ávila´s Television was held at the Provincial Museum of Decorative Arts, dedicated to World Monuments and Sites Day, which is celebrated every April 18.
During this week of school break, art instructors from the Culture Houses system in Ciego de Ávila will give art appreciation workshops.
With the training of undergraduate professionals in 35 careers, in various study modalities, including daytime courses, meetings, distance courses and short-cycle programs, the 2022 course in Higher Education begins on April 18 in Ciego de Ávila.
After the attack on Cuban airports and the historic burial of the victims, yesterday it was exactly 61 years of the invasion to the island by Playa Girón, center-south of the country, financed by the United States.
As part of the development of renewable sources and the efficient use of resources, photovoltaic energy hiring to the residential and state sector in Ciego de Ávila, Ulises Gutiérrez Ramírez, main specialist of the normalization and efficiency group of the National Office for the Control and Rational Use of Energy (ONURE) in the province, reported.
Niorgen Buchillón García, loader operator, a 24-carat man
He leaves his house with the irresolute idea of not knowing when he will return, as happened with one of the last trains he loaded. It began at nine at night and ended after twelve, "so that he would not be late."
Students, teachers, researchers and the public, in general, have a new tool at their disposal to learn about facts, figures and processes of the past with the book Ciego de Ávila Provincial Historical Synthesis, a text that contributes to the improvement of the teaching of local history, applied at all educational levels.
According to agreement 9266 of 2022 of the Council of Ministers of Cuba, before April 30 of this year the digital signature mechanism will have to be used in the organs, agencies of the Central State Administration, the Central Bank of Cuba, all entities national and local bodies of People's Power.
With the realization of the 548 assemblies foreseen in the schedule, the popular consultation process of the Family Code Project, which began last February, concluded in the municipality of Morón.
It might seem that the tranquility of Elviro Miranda Pérez, head of Electro-medicine at the Roberto Rodríguez Provincial Hospital, in Morón, is routine, in the midst of the tests of the second oxygen generation plant installed there.
The Plenary Session of the Provincial Committee of the Union of Young Communists (UJC) in Ciego de Ávila, in an extraordinary session, elected Nailyn Machado Álvarez for the position of first secretary of the youth organization, replacing Lianet Pazo Cedeño, who until then had that responsibility and was promoted to National President of the Pioneers.
With the application of the Anti-COVID-19 vaccine to those allergic to Thiomersal, in its 10 municipalities, Ciego de Ávila consolidates the immunization process of its entire population against the SARS CoV-2 virus.
The Ministry of Finance and Prices (MFP) made the decision, endorsed by Resolution Number 81 of 2022, to establish the decentralization of an important range of retail prices in Cuban pesos that are marketed by chain stores and other related entities.
In just a few months, Yunet Pérez has become a successful woman with the launch of bath and washing soaps, soap shavings, soap shavings, creams and oils, conceived manually from natural elements with medicinal and beneficial properties for sensitive skin.
Adolescents will receive anti-COVID-19 reinforcement in Cuba
This Wednesday, some 848,000 adolescents in Cuba, between 12 and 18 years old, who have completed six months of the complete primary vaccination schedule, will receive the booster dose of the national anti-COVID-19 immunogenic drugs.
Next April 15, Good Friday, is a day of work break with salary payment, in accordance with the provisions of Law 116 of the Labor Code, of December 20, 2013, in its Article 100.
In ten provinces of our country, the BA-2 variant of Omicron circulates, which, although it maintains less virulence, is the one with the highest contagiousness, hence it is necessary to maintain hygienic-sanitary measures in order to avoid the disease, even when in Cuba the trend is towards a decrease in positive cases.
The economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba by the US government hinders the aqueduct and sewage services in the country, denounced the main directors of the Superior Organization of Business Management (OSDE) Water and Sanitation, in a recent visit to Ciego de Ávila.
A meeting with the main authorities of the municipality of Morón was held by the first secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba in Ciego de Ávila, Livan Izquierdo Alonso, accompanied by his predecessor Carlos Luis Garrido Pérez.
With voluntary work days in prioritized tasks of the economy, the coming Sundays, April 17 and 24, continue the productive, union and social actions that are carried out in Ciego de Ávila as a tribute to May 1st, International Workers' Day.
To look at and analyze with a critical eye and without triumphalism the work of the Party, to recognize its strengths and the permanence of the principles that sustain it as the bow of Cuban socialism, that is what the continuity of the 8th was about. Congress in each of our provinces.
The status of Collective National Interest, obtained in 2016 and ratified during 2019, 2020 and 2021 ―with an intermediate period (2017-2018) of recognition as distinguished in the country―, constitutes only a motivation to perform successfully in assistance and legal advice to legal entities.
The constitution in Havana of the Comprehensive Sanitation and Rehabilitation Services Company (ServiVIP), the first private entity (MSME) of its kind in the country, expresses the will to improve the quality of water and sewage services.
With the realization of a walk from the José Martí Park to the Máximo Gómez Báez Revolution Square, in Ciego de Ávila, the commemorative activities for the day of the working class, the coming May 1st, continued this Saturday morning.
With the delivery of the Raúl Gómez García distinction to Gualberto Domínguez Pérez and a recognition from Musicávila to the quintet Strings and Voices from the Plain, the 12 anniversary of the popular peasant group from Ciego de Ávila was celebrated this Saturday at the "María, la matancera" event.
With the text "The kingdom of solitude, a company book", Ciego de Ávila writer Fernando Díaz Martínez is working intensely on the last details of his most recent publishing novelty, commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Although it seems that as of March 29, the number of positive cases for COVID-19 began to decline in Ciego de Ávila, the 96 patients last Wednesday came close to the streak of 100 again and showed that it is still early to end the spike in infections.
When Ciego de Ávila headed the worst headlines, with the highest infant mortality rate in the country in 2021 —13.6 per thousand live births— we crowned the dangerous spiral that we had escalated in recent years: fewer births and more deaths.
More than 200,000 Ciego de Ávila citizens will participate in the parades for May 1st, International Workers' Day, and will confirm that Cuba also lives and works in the 10 municipalities of the province, after two years of celebrating the event virtually due to the effects of COVID-19.
Almost faster than the shutter of the camera, that is intruding its zoom in the city, the panorama of COVID-19 in Ciego de Ávila has been revealed. A flash and it shows one thing, another flash and it shows the same thing: the lack of perception is a fixed photo and not even all the bursts we have had have served to repair the sad album that some carry in their memory.
Among rumors, denials and certainties, the issue of Social Security for Cubans travels, a security that although it strengthens the family and the approved monetary benefits alleviate urgent needs, they are not exempt from difficulties nor do they fully solve the economic fragility of poorest families.
After two years without meeting due to Covid-19, cardiologists from the center of the country carry out in Ciego de Ávila the balance of the cardio-surgical network of the center of the country, "Everything with the heart", from the 6th to the 8th of this month.
The commitment of the Superior Organization of Business Management (OSDE) Water and Sanitation with the development of communication practices that benefit its entities and public throughout the country is made clear from the province of Ciego de Ávila, site of the first institutional communication workshop of that organism.
Los Búfalos debut in "almost new" house
If the new beginning of the Top League of Basketball finally materializes, the multi-champion Búfalos from Ciego de Ávila will make their debut in the competition in "an almost new house" when they receive a visit from Sancti Spíritus at the Giraldo Córdova Cardín Sports Center this Saturday.
The potato harvest in Ciego de Ávila shows an acceptable behavior to date, despite the use of a fertilizer without the ideal characteristics for its growth and development in part of the planted areas and limitations in the acquisition of phytosanitary products.
With the purpose of improving communication management in the Cuban Aqueduct network, from April 5 to 7, Ciego de Ávila will host the First National Workshop on Business Communication for Water and Sanitation.
She is more daring than the pine tree that grew isolated and 11 years ago gave rise to the name of her bar-restaurant, recognized among gastronomy in Ciego de Ávila, especially by customers who appreciate good Creole food.
In correspondence with the international and national epidemiological situation of COVID-19 and the levels of immunization achieved, it has been decided to make the following modifications to the requirements for entering the country as part of the International Sanitary Control.
Clothes, toys and other accessories are part of the donation received by the Foster Home in Ciego de Ávila, from students and teachers of the Ernesto Guevara Urban Pre-University Institute in the province.
The 61st anniversaries of the José Martí Pioneers Organization (OPJM) and the 60th of the Union of Young Communists (UJC) were celebrated last night with the cultural gala Vamos con todo in the central José Martí Park in this city of Ciego de Ávila.
The Cuban Railways Address in Ciego de Avila reports that work is being done to achieve vitality in the services and the reestablishment of the trains.
With satisfaction we welcome this April 4, the date on which the Union of Young Communists and the José Martí Pioneers Organization arrive at their 60th and 61st anniversaries, respectively, imbued with their optimism and energy.
Being young at 60 years old would be impossible, if we were not talking here about a political organization that has not let the years take its toll on it, no matter how much it has climbed slopes, steered curves and reinvented itself along the way.
The twelfth anniversary of the peasant quintet Cuerdas y Voces del Llano was celebrated this weekend with a unique party at the Barquito Cafe of the House of the Young Creator of Ciego de Ávila.
Idilexy (La China) Morales Fajardo, owner of the small company El Pino Atrevido, dedicated to gastronomic activity, became the first representative of the non-state sector in the province of Ciego de Ávila to receive the Culinary Friendship Plaque, awarded by the Federation of Culinary Associations of the Republic of Cuba.
May 1st flag in the hands of union leaders from Ciego de Ávila, headed by Niurka Ferrer Castillo, general secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Cuban Worker Central/ Photo: Sulema Véliz Pina
This Sunday, a volunteer work in sugarcane areas of the municipality of Primero de Enero, was the beginning of the tour of the May 1st flag that will be present in the activities of homage for the International Workers' Day, in the province of Ciego de Ávila.
Osmany Vicente Quintana, mayor of the Municipal Government of People's Power in Baraguá, highlighted that the approach to communities, systematized since October 2021, increases efficiency in serving the population and speeds up the solution to problems with housing, supply of water and the deterioration of the vials.
The peasant quintet Strings and Voices from the Lowlands celebrates its twelfth anniversary this year with multiple activities that include festivals, parties and binges.
Between non-compliance with tax obligations and the crime of tax evasion there is a short path that, at the end of 2021, nine taxpayers traveled in Ciego de Ávila, after the National Tax Administration Office (ONAT) exhausted legal and enforcement resources, without results.
Another rebound of COVID-19 in Ciego de Ávila
Next Monday, when Dr. Francisco Durán, National Director of Epidemiology, will analyze at the end of week 13 of the year, he will say that Ciego de Ávila is the province with the highest incidence of COVID-19 in the country. He will mention it and all the numbers will confirm the rebound that is already being, also, national.
We don't say it, history says it: when the Cuban people, using their will and strength, undertake a goal, they don't give up until they achieve it.
(Photo: ETECSA Ciego de Ávila)
The Cuban Telecommunications Company (ETECSA) in Ciego de Ávila continues with the investment plan in 2022 to contribute to the computerization process of Cuban society.
Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and President of the Republic, affirmed today on Twitter that the Cuban Revolution would continue to resist, create, overcome adversities, grow and perfect our democratic and fair work.
This month we arrive at the 21st anniversary of the transcendental words pronounced by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz in the Open Forum on March 31, 2001, at the Eduardo Saborit Sports Circle, in the Havana municipality of Playa, in which the leader of the Revolution contributed fundamental concepts about what it considered to be the largest mass mobilization in the history of our country, which began with the demand for the return to the country of the child Elián González.
From the allocation of more than six million 250 thousand pesos for repair and maintenance in family doctor's offices (CMF), the province of Ciego de Ávila foresees improvements in 61 of these primary health care institutions (PHC), during the current year, to offer a higher quality service to the population.
When this journalist approached Lázaro Padrón Pereira, General Director of Upper Secondary Education in the province, to ask him about the results obtained by Ciego de Ávila in the Higher Education entrance exams, she had to wait a few days, since he was engaged in deep analysis.
The program of the noble task of donating blood to save lives corresponding to the first quarter of the year 2022 was fulfilled in the municipality of Majagua with more than twenty contributions above what was planned.
Morón Undertakes
Since last Monday, when the Morón Undertakes expo-fair was being organized on the upper floors of the Haydée Santamaría Cuadrado culture house, Yunet Pérez Pérez, co-owner of Delavida, a project dedicated to the artisanal production of soaps, advised one thing: “we have to start thinking on collaborations".
This Monday, the creators of the Cuban anti-COVID-19 vaccines received the Medal of the World Intellectual Property Organization for Inventors, in the presence of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.
Basketball squads for Superior League
Los Búfalos and Las Sirenas teams, which will take part in the Superior Basketball League, scheduled to start on April 2, were flagged at the José Martí Park in the provincial capital.
While Calendario, under the logic of the condensation of short series, reaches its climactic moment -it says goodbye next Sunday, so there will be an opportunity to assess it in all its length and complexity-, Tú, the current Cuban soap opera, keeps good part of the television audience alert.
Máximo Gómez Báez University of Ciego de Ávila (UNICA) will open its doors on April 18 and is already preparing for the enrollment process.
With the longest trova, the seventeenth National Meeting of Young Troubadours, Trovarte 2022, of the Hermanos Saíz Association in Ciego de Ávila, ended this Sunday.
The creators of the Cuban anti-Covid-19 vaccines Soberana 01, Soberana 02, Abdala and Mambisa will receive the Gold Medal for Inventors here on Monday, conferred by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
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Seen from below, where it begins to be born, one imagines that the first bioelectric plant (BE) built in Cuba has claims of eternity, and even seems to possess a certain mysticism. Stored mounds of marabou biomass that appear and hide, some very high places 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… a persistent hum.
For Yamilé Santana Blanco, head of the Population Assistance Department of the Provincial Government of People's Power (GPPP) in Ciego de Ávila, there are three words that define success in assistance to citizens: perseverance, dedication and love.
The conclusion of the first stage of the local development project (PDL) Humedal Grande Park-Laguna de La Leche, in the municipality of Morón, will favor the tourism sector in the province of Ciego de Ávila by incorporating other offers to the sun and beach that takes place in Jardines del Rey.
Public lighting revitalized in Ciego de Ávila
The inventiveness and effort of workers from the Electric Company in Ciego de Ávila made possible the search for alternatives to revitalize public lighting, actions that are among those with the greatest impact for innovators in this sector.
Canning Industry in Ciego de Ávila
Despite the limitations of chemical fertilizers and more suitable varieties of crops in the agricultural sector, the Canning Industry of Ciego de Ávila keeps its mills active in tomato processing, of which they have already used more than 4,000 tons.
Regulated products are expanded
An agreement of the Government Council in Ciego de Ávila seeks to curb the hoarding, resale and speculation of basic necessities, by including disposable diapers, wet wipes and sanitary pads for retail sale in CUP of the Caribe and CIMEX store chains.
Cuban anticovid-19 vaccines
A recognition of relevance constitutes the decision of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to award its "Medal for Inventors" to the authors of four Cuban anticovid-19 vaccines.
With the presence of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CCPCC), Miguel Díaz Canel Bermúdez, the Provincial Balance Assembly of the Communist Party of Cuba met in Ciego de Ávila.
Taking into account the existing epidemiological situation in the Ciego de Avila province, the decision was made to postpone the Piña Colada Festival 2022 scheduled to take place from April 1 to 4.
With seven hotels in the Jardines del Rey destination, distributed between Coco and Guillermo keys, the representation of the Gran Caribe hotel chain in the province of Ciego de Ávila is committed to a greater presence of the domestic market in its facilities.
It is an extraordinary commitment to hold our assembly 127 years after the signing of the Montecristi Manifest, considered the political platform of the Necessary War, organized by José Martí, and on the same day that, eight years later, Julio Antonio Mella saw the light, founder of the First Communist Party of Cuba.
A gala on partisan balance
In a succinct synthesis of the cultural mosaic that characterizes the City of Portals, the gala was held last night on the eve of the Balance Assembly of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba in Ciego de Ávila.
