More than 34,500 inhabitants of the municipality of Ciego de Ávila have not yet come to be vaccinated with the booster dose against COVID-19 until this December 29, despite the risk that this disease represents for the province and the country in the face of the growing affectation in the world with the appearance of the omicron variant.
With a set of images that complemented informative notes referring to the management of the Raw Materials Recovery Company (ERMP) in Ciego de Ávila in the current year, Román Romero López, journalist for the Avileño Citizen Portal and the Cuban News Agency (ACN), won the award of the national photography contest “Reciclando Ando”.
The mere attempt to practice sport in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic was already a challenge, but much more if it was about dealing with the Tokyo Olympics or the Pan-American youth event in Colombia. For these reasons, it was more than deserved the tribute that the best athletes of Ciego de Ávila received from the Cuba Communist Party, the Government and the sports entity of the territory.
A discreet increase in the number of people infected by COVID-19 in the last 14 days of December of this year puts Ciego de Ávila citizens on alert in the need to combat irresponsible behaviors that put all their residents at risk.
Studies in sugarcane plantations, with the use of advanced technologies (drones with real image and multispectral cameras, and satellite snapshots) will favor the development of the 2021-2022 sugar harvest at the Ciro Redondo Agro-industrial Company, in the province of Ciego de Avila.
The timely detection of pregnant women at risk in the north-central region of the territory of Ciego de Ávila is part of the actions carried out by specialists from the Roberto Rodríguez Provincial General Teaching Hospital to improve the results of the Maternal and Child Care Program (PAMI) in 2022.
Even in the midst of holidays, vaccination against COVID-19 does not stop in the province of Ciego de Ávila, as part of the effort to achieve immunization of the entire population and consolidate improvements in the epidemiological situation.
After resuming the school year, last November, parents, relatives and teachers of the Primary School students knew that it was not going to be an easy process after so much time at home.
There is no triumph without sacrifice. Moreover, the flavor of this one is different, because it is unique, when, as a reward for delivery times, even your soul yells at you: Thank you! This is how the 183 graduates of the Ciego de Ávila`s University Máximo Gómez Báez (UNICA) Day Course felt this Thursday.
Idel Evelio Cruz Martín had to find a qualifier for his business, with caution not to repeat the experience of 2018, when the name of El Ángel was denied because it corresponded to another entity. How do you find, overnight, a denomination that meets your requirements and your expectations? He wondered.
The culmination of the environmental management actions envisaged by the international project Connecting Landscapes in four mountain ranges of the country, favors decision-making for the sustainable management of these areas.
The National Assembly of People's Power approved the draft Law of the Family Code and submit it to popular consultation from February 1 to April 30, 2022.
Sixty years ago, a war against ignorance was successfully waged in Cuba, an event that constituted one of the most beautiful and noble tasks carried out after the triumph of the Revolution: The Literacy Campaign, which culminated in the eradication of illiteracy in Cuba, a work in which adolescents and young people taught to read and write to people of any age, in the most remote places of the country.
I am not going to be fair in these lines, because after graduation, work and adult life you know that in each of these steps not only mom and dad, but also all their teachers, were driving them.
Regarding the recent debates in the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP), Reina Torres Pérez, deputy for the territory of Ciego de Ávila and member of the Agrifood Commission, highlighted the social impact of Decree Law No. 129/2019 "Fishing Law" in the province.
On horseback and hand in hand with her father, the splendid bride walks through the hill to the shadow of an almond tree, an exquisitely decorated space with natural elements. Sunflowers lined up on the lawn draw the route to her future husband, accompanied by the notary, family, friends and neighbors.
The manufactured nozzles, the result of the productive chain between various actors of the economy in Cuba
For the first time, filter nozzles for water purification plants are manufacturedin Cuba, after specialists in the hydraulic resources system concluded the rigorous inspection and testing process of the first 22,000 units created by the Ciego de Ávila company Ciegoplast.
On Saturday afternoon and evening, the successful synchronization of the first bioelectric plant (BE) in Cuba with the Ciro Redondo sugar factory marks a milestone in Cuba in the "linking" between a power factory and an electricity generating plant with employment of marabou biomass and sugarcane bagasse.
After two years without meeting in person due to the impact of the pandemic, this Sunday the permanent work commissions of the National Assembly of People's Power will do so to analyze the implementation of legislation or agreements related to their sectors or activities, including strategic programs of the country.
More than 200 people have been fined in the province of Ciego de Ávila, during the current year, for committing illegalities associated with the depredation of wild flora and fauna, incidents that affect biodiversity and ecological balance.
More than 60 vaccination centers began operating in all health areas of the province to immunize before the end of the year the 7,613 minors who fell ill with COVID-19.
If Misleydi had wanted to do her makeup, she would have had plenty of time. She usually gets up between 5:00 and 6:00 in the morning and her husband, as always, makes (her) breakfast. This Saturday, December 11, your meeting would begin around 8:00, so I know how long you had. While he was brewing the coffee, she was combing her hair, although later she will be wondering in front of the Invasor's camera if she did it right. Doubt, ask for a touch-up: "oh sorry, I'm all messy, look at it, right?"
Today, new works of economic and social benefit were inaugurated in the municipality of Ciego de Ávila as a greeting to the next balance meeting of the Communist Party of Cuba in this territory.
The Ministry of Education of Cuba (Mined) approved new norms and procedures for the Granting of Enrollment in Children's Kindergartens with the aim of prioritizing the treatment of mothers with children who present special educational needs, those with two or more children and female students with early childhood children.
ReCreo, the Performing Arts club of the Hermanos Saíz Association in Ciego de Ávila, took up its space this Wednesday with René Rivas Hernández as a guest and the performance of the comedian Aldring Mirabal.
A local development project linked to history was approved in Ciego de Ávila for the remodeling and conceptualization of a reference kilometer of the defensive system of the trail from Júcaro to Morón.
The Porcine Company in the province of Ciego de Ávila adopts strategies to obtain alternative foods that allow to recover the productions, destined to satisfy the demands of the national economy and the materialization of the monthly per capita of five kilograms of protein products.
With the collection of more than 130 000 pesos in fifteen days, the Popular Crafts Fair in the José Sirio Inda Hernández House of Culture of the City of Ciego de Ávila ended.
The commercialization of more than 5 470 tons of viands, vegetables, grains and fruit trees, in the month of November, representing 27.8 pounds per capita, brings the province of Ciego de Ávila closer to the objective of guaranteeing the delivery of 30 lbs of agricultural products per capita in that interval.
After observing the total renovation of the Francisco Espinosa stadium, in Morón, the representatives of the National Baseball Commission, who travel the country to evaluate the material conditions prior to the start of the 61st National Series, were absolute in their pronouncement: “It is an example of what should be the main facilities of this discipline in the municipalities”.
When the doors of the Ciego de Ávila version of the 2021 National Crafts Fair close this December 15, it will have been verified that the city needs a permanent fairground, which allows the creators of the Cuban Fund for Cultural Assets (FCBC) interact with the existing public on this side of the stoneway, because we know that beyond the seas the links are expeditious.
The Jardines de la Reina National Park, located south of the provinces of Ciego de Ávila and Canagüey, received the Blue Park award in the Golden Category, an award that for the first time, a protected area of Cuba receives for having achieved the highest scientific standards for the protection and management of marine life.
On Monday, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba Jorge Luis Perdomo Di-Lella visited the Ciego de Ávila Bioplant Center with the purpose of planning collaboration projects with BioCubaFarma.
When 45 exceeds its status as a number to represent the deaths of newborns, the frustration of women who wanted to be or repeat the experience as mothers, and family pain; alarms go off and it is urgent to determine causes, conditions and responsibilities.
The Local Agricultural Innovation Project (PIAL) from Ciego de Ávila constitutes a reliable example of how Human Rights are implemented and respected in Cuba.
Population studies in areas with a history of epidemiological complexities, places with higher population density and objectives of economic and social interest, facilitate the control of the COVID-19 pandemic in the territory of Ciego de Ávila.
Representatives of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) confirmed the economic and social impact of the revitalization of the local productive chain of construction materials in the province of Ciego de Ávila.
Circular cage, 18 meters in diameter, about to go into operation
Considerable benefits are reported to the country by the completion of 37 new cages for intensive fish farming manufactured this year at the Ciego de Ávila company Ciegoplast, an entity with a growing contribution to food security and nutrition, priorities for the Cuban Government.
The connection to the National Electric System (SEN) of the first bioelectric plant in the country, adjacent to the Ciro Redondo sugar plant, is scheduled for December 20, according to what was known during a work visit made to Ciego de Ávila by Vice Prime Minister Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca.
A more or less detailed analysis of what has been done in the period under evaluation is expected from the accountability of the delegate to his constituents. How the representative of the town handled the complaints, concerns and proposals. How he led his fellow citizens in a critical look at reality and in participation in all issues that have communities as their center.
At the time when the three bullets interrupt the morning silence in the Pantheon of the Fallen Ones for Defense, the calm in the chest, in the breathing… and in the eyes were broken in Ciego de Ávila. Ten months ago, the officer of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), Major Yandi Espinosa Varela, rested in the same cemetery as the martyrs whom he went to honor on December 7 so many times.
The Cubanacán Travel Agency (AVC) in the province of Ciego de Ávila promotes the development of the tourism sector and offers possibilities for the recreation of national clients, through the sale of excursions to the Coco and Guillermo cays.
The difficulties with the supply of fuel, technical means and spare parts are not secrets that are found in the Provincial Transportation Company, but obstacles that are noted after almost a month of a gradual restoration of services in Ciego de Ávila.
The partial results of four projects, executed by the company Geocuba, will favor adaptation to climate change in strategic sectors such as agriculture, where the greatest impacts are expected in the province of Ciego de Ávila.
That doctors, nurses and health institutions in Ciego de Ávila take a break to celebrate this December 3, Latin American Medicine Day, which is more than deserved after a difficult year, in which COVID-19 has forced to make double effort from each consultation, isolation center and hospital.
The teacher Sara Fe Luis Lewis was distinguished in her home, surrounded by neighbors and family, as Glory of Education and Jewel of the Ciego de Ávila Pedagogy.
About the New Normality, I dare to assure, only the last word has been internalized, judging by an atmosphere of relaxation that alludes to failures in memory to remember the situation experienced in the province of Ciego de Ávila, which has become the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, just three months ago.
A new approach to scientific work to face climate change will allow the Workshop "Partial results of projects financed by the National Environment Fund", which will meet on December 2 and 3 in the province of Ciego de Ávila.
Given the alert issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) about the high mutations of Ómicron, with the potential to be more resistant to immunization and more contagious, Cuba is already designing specific vaccines against this new variant of SARS-COV-2 , as published by Dr. Eduardo Martínez Díaz, president of BioCubaFarma on his account on the social network Twitter.
In part, the long queues observed at the Identification, Immigration and Migration procedures offices in Ciego de Ávila since the resumption of this service could be related to the widespread rumor that in 2022 the price of requesting immigration documentation would increase or there would be limitations to travel.
In his capacity as a public servant and the highest representative of governance in the province, Martin Venegas was self-critical in his report without disdaining the achievements, but with an emphasis on what remains to be done.
On Monday, with a trova festivity at the House of the Young Creator of Ciego de Ávila, the Hermanos Saíz Association celebrated Silvio Rodríguez's 75th birthday. The troubadour Héctor Luis De Posada started the evening with Ángel for the end, while other anthological themes by the bard Silvio Rodríguez such as El papalote, and Mariposa, Te doy una canción, Compañera and el Sol no da de beber flooded the ether of Ciego de Ávila boulevard.
With six intervention sites distributed in the mountainous massif of Bamburanao, the international project Connecting Landscapes contributes to develop productive systems compatible with the conservation of biodiversity in the hills of the municipalities of Florencia and Chambas.
When the first rays of sunlight began to shine on the last Saturday of this November, a hundred members of the University Student Federation (FEU) and the Federation of High School Students (FEEM) were enlisting near Martí Park, from the city of Ciego de Ávila. Their goal was to carry out a march in commemoration of the unjust execution of eight medical students at the hands of the Spanish colonial government, in Havana, on a day like today in 1871.
There are poignant images that 150 years later it can still be counted in the present because they have not stopped hurting. There are details suspended in time that no testimony could do justice. Eight innocent young people paid the price with their lives. That illogical.
If you were not present in each act and your thoughts did not accompany the daily life of this country - full of joys and sorrows, but always resistant and victorious in the face of adversity - perhaps it would accept, after five years, that you have died.
Perhaps in 1992, upon graduating from Chemical Engineering at the University of Camagüey, she felt the frequent dissatisfaction with the work location; however, almost 30 years later, Yamilé Jiménez Peña speaks of the Bio-food Research Center (CIBA) of the province of Ciego de Ávila as a great opportunity.
Five practical contributions to the governance system is the main balance of the first graduates in Ciego de Ávila as postgraduate specialists in the Local Agricultural Innovation System (SIAL).
Fidel at the inauguration of the then Hotel Guiitart Cayo Coco
When Fidel stood at the top of those first 362 meters, scanned the horizon, calculated and thought that the fight against the sea was going to be difficult, it was when he pronounced the Homeric phrase: "Here you have to throw stones without looking forward." Perhaps, as a result of the pre-emotion of risk or of what in the future the act of "walking" on water would mean, as the most expeditious way to bring tourism development to the northern cays of Cuba.
Workers of the Provincial Government of People's Power in Ciego de Ávila highlighted the importance of the thought of the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution when commemorating the fifth anniversary of his physical disappearance.
COVID-19 and dengue are viral diseases that cause fever, general illness, anorexia, headache and, sometimes, some digestive symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea.
Ciego de Ávila will be represented by five athletes at the First Youth Pan American Games, which will have their official opening on Thursday 25 at the Pascual Guerrero stadium, the flagship facility of the Colombian city of Cali.
The acquisition of writing paper for the Braille System, contact lenses, magnifying glasses, telescopes, power strips, walking sticks of dissimilar sizes and sound toys for deaf and loss-hearing children are among the main effects of the imperialist blockade on Special Education in Ciego de Ávila, as in all of Cuba.
There are multiple challenges to achieve a sustainable model of agricultural production, transformations in the cultivation and commercialization processes, greater access to resources and adequate consumption habits, fundamental purposes of the Food Sovereignty and Nutrition Education Plan (SAN).
With a career as a partisan leader in several municipalities and based on the experience accumulated in Matanzas on the Popular Power management system, it was thought that he could be part of that body in the territory of Morón, although he never intended to be the President of the Municipal Assembly, according to their notes.
With the presence of Carlos Luis Garrido Pérez, first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party in Ciego de Ávila, the Antonio “Ñico” García Sports Hall was officially inaugurated in the capital city of the province.
This week, after more than six months without face-to-face teaching, the Máximo Gómez Báez University gradually resumes its systematic work practices in its thirty-five careers.
Representatives of the AGRECOCARIBE International Project financed by the French Embassy in Cuba are evaluating in Ciego de Ávila the results and impacts of the efficient use of beneficial indigenous microorganisms.
When the Revolution triumphed, he wanted to be a doctor, but he was so imbued with the transformations that his dream was truncated, not because of a lack of opportunities, but because of the personal decision to accompany and serve during this process.
The renewal of monetary and exchange policy in the country benefited the Ciego de Ávila Raw Materials Recovery Company, by conceiving an exchange rate that stimulates export earnings.
If Dr. José Luis López González, deputy director of Epidemiology in the Provincial Directorate of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology, maintains that “although a person who is admitted to the home for suspected patient of dengue should be monitored by the health system of their community, the goal is to go to a hospital or isolation center”, it suggests that the protocols are not fully complied with.
The Constitution of the Republic of Cuba endorses in its article 177 the responsibility of the Governor of the province to "report on his management to the National Assembly of People's Power, the Council of Ministers and the Provincial Council."
Perhaps as never before, the anniversary of the founding of the Antonio Luaces Iraola Provincial Hospital has been celebrated in a difficult context, mediated by the spiraling effects of Covid-19 and the challenge of gradually normalizing health services. However, getting here, with 70 years of history and work, has been enough for joy.
The facilities of Cubanacán Hotels Firm reopened their doors to nationals and foreigners at the beginning of the high tourist season, with the challenge of developing a more hygienic and safe tourism that enhances the leisure industry in the country.
Old and new players in the economy expand the portfolio of products to be marketed in Jardines del Rey (Photo: Ortelio)
Among the strengths of the Jardines del Rey destination, in the context of the opening of Cuba to tourist activity this November 15, we can find the contribution of the state and cooperative-peasant sectors that print a genuinely Cuban flavor, with the productive chain and the growing presence of agricultural products of national demand in that emporium. An area that saw imports decrease due to Covid-19 and the economic blockade policy imposed by the United States.
In line with the policies in the country, new prices will come into force, as of next November 22, in all establishments in the province of Ciego de Ávila, both state and private sectors, that intervene in the commercialization of agricultural products.
This Sunday, many cultural and recreational activities take place in all the municipalities of Ciego de Ávila. This province is ready to receive the new school year this Monday. Joy flooded its streets and parks.
After one year of efficient use of indigenous mountain microorganisms, School-Farm Los Hondones in the northern municipality of Chambas diversifies its 100 percent agro-ecological productions.
The first secretary of the Party's Central Committee and president of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, appears on national television to speak to the Cuban people about the new normality and other current issues. Cubadebate broadcasts this special intervention live through its social networks.
The presentation of the prose storybook "Daniela`s stories" by Dania Sorí stands out among the activities promoted by the puppet festival in Ciego de Ávila at the José Sirio Inda Hernández House of Culture.
Foundation of the Guitart Cayo Coco Hotel (current Colonial Hotel) by the Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.
The group of workers at Colonial Cayo Coco Hotel commemorated the 28th anniversary of this facility, founded by Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, on November 12, 1993, and initiator of tourism development in the northern cays of the province of Ciego de Ávila.
This Wednesday, by constituency 13 of the Popular Council of the City Center, the third process of accountability of the delegate to his electors began in Ciego de Ávila.
Until Sunday, November 14, the puppet festival will flood social networks in memory of Yosvani Abril Figueroa and for the 45th anniversary of the Hermanos Saíz Association in Ciego de Ávila.
More than 354,000 Ciego de Ávila`s citizens must participate in the third process of accountability of the delegates to the Municipal Assemblies of People's Power to their electors, which began this November 10 and will run until December 23, during which time 2315 meetings will be held in the 552 constituencies of the province.
This week, a critical assessment of the good practices associated with the local agricultural innovation system (SIAL) in Ciego de Ávila stars the coordinating group of the international PIAL project sponsored by the Máximo Gómez Báez university.
The Draft of the Family Code gains space in popular wisdom through exchanges held by members of the Union of Jurists of Cuba (UNJC) in the province of Ciego de Ávila with cadres and officials from political and social institutions.
Ciego de Ávila`s citizen Jeisser Sampson read the oath of the Cuban delegation
This Tuesday, the Active of Dignity of the Cuban representation of wrestling at the First Junior Pan American Games Cali 2021, was a hymn to hope in the José Martí Park in the capital of Ciego de Ávila.
Jardines del Rey, the first tourist destination in the cays of Cuba, free of illegalities on its beaches (Photo: Ortelio)
The process of reconversion of state buildings into homes and the eradication of illegalities in beach areas are among the priorities of the National Institute of Territorial Planning and Urbanism (Inotu), recently created by Decree-Law 42/2021, approved by the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba.
New commercial strategies will be implemented by the Provincial Storage Company in Ciego de Ávila, from the flexibility in the sales of agricultural products, with the purpose of improving its financial indicators and increasing customer satisfaction.
This weekend, the opening of the gastronomic centers of the province was completed, with the 292 units committed to raise the quality of services and comply with hygienic-sanitary protocols to avoid the contagion and spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
To receive the more than 66,000 students who will return to their classrooms on Monday, November 8 and 15, the 390 schools from Ciego de Ávila have already secured facilities, food, teacher training and school supplies.
This November 7, next to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Recycling Business Group (GER), the Raw Materials Recovery Company (ERMP) of Ciego de Ávila, deserving of the status of Outstanding in the country, ratified the commitment to contribute with the social development programs promoted in the province.
The preservation of culture and historical memory has been the maximum in the evolution of 40 years of continuous work in the "Caonabo" Museum in the municipality of Morón, north of the province of Ciego de Ávila.
Information of social interest on the commercialization of basic necessities was given to the Ciego de Ávila press, in order to clarify doubts regarding regulated and released sales, prices, distribution mechanisms and the quality of services.
The institutionalism of Culture is vital for the integration of young creators in the cultural programming of the territory based on the formation of audiences.
For the first time, the Ciego de Ávila Bioplant Center ventures into the reproduction of medicinal plants based on local development.
The Recovery Business Group, close to turn 60, promotes new ways to collect raw materials, such as clean points ―places where resources are deposited in a classified manner―, located in schools, hotel and non-hotel facilities, and other spaces with influx of public.
With pride and gratitude, Health professionals, along with workers and labor groups from other sectors, continue to receive the deserved recognition for the contribution offered during months of incessant confrontation with Covid-19 in Ciego de Ávila.
On Tuesday, Carlos Luis Garrido Pérez, First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party in Ciego de Ávila, called on young creators from this central province in order to revitalize cultural services during the new normality.
After 45 years, Lorenzo Fernández Martínez constitutes a living memory of the founding process and the trajectory of the government system created by the initiative of the Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, as a genuine expression of the democratic character of the Socialist Revolution.
