Swimming in Ciego de Ávila has just received two silver medals in 2023 at the Tope Claude Sufrin in Memoriam in Martinique, an event where Jonathan Arias Sánchez from Ciego de Avila was subtitle in the 50-meter backstroke (29.36 seconds) and, in the same distance, but in the butterfly style, with a time of 27.53, all this in the category of 14 years and over.
The 2023 year started as a “tumultuous one” for the Cuban bank that, these days, monopolizes headlines and moves popular comment, after last January 10, the Metropolitan Bank reported on the establishment of limits on bank operations for cash extraction and transfers, made through electronic channels.
If there is a fact that is associated with life, it is giving birth. Nobody conceives that the birth of a child comes transmuted into a pain that exceeds the physical pain of bringing him into the world. Nobody expects it.
In the municipality of Chambas, second in surface extension and important for the economic and social development of the province of Ciego de Ávila, the Program for the Advancement of Women (PAM) promotes the creation of capacities to achieve a greater bond between the female sex and productive work.
We, Cubans, associate the month of January, in addition to the obvious beginning of a new year that brings its own plans and goals, with winter. That opportunity that we have to rest from the high temperatures and to wear the clothes that we can rarely in the year in our “tropical winter”.
Yesterday, Monday, the service was affected due to a capacity deficit from 6:07 p.m. to 6:43 p.m. (36 minutes), reports the Electric Union Company.
This Monday, an official reception was held at the Doctor Antonio Luaces Iraola provincial teaching hospital, in Ciego de Ávila, for young medical graduates, who are now beginning studies in different specialties.
During 2022, the buses of the public service of Ciego de Ávila transported 7 700,000 passengers, according to the statistics of the Provincial Transport Company (EPT).
Getting “a move on” in the cane harvest that by sowing takes away the cold, was the most popular phrase at the foot of the furrow on this highly productive winter Sunday day because many decided to leave home to plant the seeds in fields of the Revolution of Ethiopia Agricultural Production Company (CPA), one of the main productive bases dedicated to the cultivation of grass, in the province of Ciego de Ávila.
Yesterday, the Electric Power Company reported that the service was not affected due to capacity deficit.
Getting up after great falls, overcoming difficulties, diversifying, growing, contracting, aspiring to more, winning: they are words sewn by hand and tailored to the sugar sector in Cuba. There is a history of struggle that, like the reeds, is sometimes sweet and sometimes not so much. The 2022-2023 harvest in the province has to look for all the sweetness possible.
A call for integration to strengthen the confrontation with illegal mining in the municipality of Baraguá─with the rigor, rationality and systematicity required─, made the Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de La O Levy, in exchange with directors of Ciego de Avila.
On February 3, a sporting event that will go down in history should take place in Ciego de Ávila: that day the National Field Hockey Championship will be launched, in the women's branch, which will mark the premiere of the synthetic field, a deserved gift to the family of this discipline, the most successful in the province in Cuban competitions.
High generators of human energy recharge their commitments with motivations with the celebration of the Day of the worker of the electrical sector this January 14.
With the imperative of achieving the continuity of the service and working in the fulfillment of important tasks aimed at promoting the development of the country's economy, and the satisfaction of the duty fulfilled, workers of the electrical sector in Ciego de Ávila celebrate their day.
On February 3rd, 2023, a sporting event that will go down in history should take place in Ciego de Ávila: that day the National Field Hockey Championship will be launched, in the women's branch, which will mark the premiere of the synthetic field, a deserved gift to the family of this discipline in Ciego de Ávila, the most successful in the province in Cuban competitions.
The most prominent results of science, technology and innovation in Ciego de Ávila during the year 2022 were recognized, today, in the provincial act for Cuban Science Day.
From January 23, those who arrive in the country must fill out the D'Viajeros digital form, as a valid affidavit to be presented to the airline and border authorities.
The Educate Your Child Program (PETH) in Ciego de Ávila, nearing its 31st anniversary, seeks to consolidate intersectoral work strategies that allow us to move forward with firmer steps in supporting the family, to achieve the maximum possible comprehensive development of each boy and girl from birth to six years of age.
On Tuesday, January 10, Metropolitano Bank reported through its institutional profile on Facebook, about the establishment of limits on bank operations for cash withdrawals and transfers made through electronic channels in Cuba.
Reaching more income than expenses, which is known in economic terms as a surplus, constitutes one of the main challenges in the execution of the economic plan and the budget for this year, in the municipality of Ciro Redondo in Ciego de Avila.
After a fruitful Provincial Championship, the 40 players who, starting this week, at the José Ramón Cepero stadium, will seek to wear the uniform of Los Tigres from Ciego de Avila in the 62nd National Baseball Series, scheduled to begin in March, have already been selected.
Not because the furrows are straight, potato planting has become a round trip, without setbacks.
The planning of 10 million pesos of the budget approved for the year 2023 in the municipality of Morón, will make it possible to continue with the Program for the Transformation of Neighborhoods and Communities, which contemplates a total of 40 actions in four of the six popular councils of that town.
The Electric Power Company reports that yesterday, the electricity service was not affected due to a deficit in generation capacity.
“In a small harvest like the current one, the one who trusts loses. For this reason, we must be more aggressive in solving problems, not leave anything for later," Julio Andrés García Pérez, president of Azcuba Sugar Company, said on a recent visit to Ciego de Ávila to analyze the development of the current sugar dispute.
Some 3,480 jobs and opportunities for development arose in the province of Ciego de Ávila, during the year 2022, with the approval of more than 90 new economic actors.
The beginning of the year brought the restoration of various areas of the Doctor Antonio Luaces Iraola Provincial Teaching Hospital, in the capital of Ciego de Avila, which improves the public service it provides.
The 2022 year closed with 946 completed homes and the figure again fell below expectations by 54.5 percent, illustrating, incidentally, a "sequence" of defaults that dates back to 2021, when this province barely raised 560 houses and remained at 35.2 percent of their plans. Very distant from the 1,300 that we built in 2020.
The Electric Power Company estimates an availability of 2,555 MW and a maximum demand of 2,750 MW for Monday's night peak hours, for a deficit of 195 MW; therefore, if the forecast conditions continue, an impact of 265 MW is forecast in this schedule.
At the end of 2022, 210 mothers with three or more children received comfortable housing in Ciego de Ávila, as part of attention to this demographic policy indicator, which seeks to protect women with multiple descendants in a situation of social vulnerability, from 2021.
Yesterday, the electrical service was not affected due to a deficit in generation capacity.
New actions are defined in the province of Ciego de Ávila to promote economic recovery and revitalize essential public services during 2023, as part of the Day of Decisive Effort, corresponding to the Ciego de Ávila Heartbeat political movement.
Yunier Valdivia Rodríguez, deputy director of Sports Activities of Ciego de Ávila, knows well that this territory has the potential to aspire to something more than that 12th place in the country's comprehensive ranking that it currently holds.
With the beginning of the year 2023, it could be said that the Provincial General Teaching Hospital Doctor Antonio Luaces Iraola closes a construction cycle, which has restored comfort and a renewed image to several of its services, as part of a political movement that has joined companies and organizations of the territory in the "sponsorship" of the work.
Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, convened in Ciego de Ávila, territory to face the challenges of the New Year with a different way of doing things, with solutions specific to each place, where they begin a group of meetings with the highest authorities of the provinces.
I met a few days ago, almost at the end of 2022, with a group of my colleagues from the good times of the 80s and also from the hard years of the 90s.
185 MW is the forecast of affectation in peak hours for this January 6 in the country, as announced in an informative note by the Electric Power Company.
Not exempt from difficulties, the 2022-2023 sugar harvest began in Ciego de Ávila due to the rupture of a valve in the Ciro Redondo bioelectric plant, which prevents the full operation of its two boilers and, therefore, stabilize an industrial exchange with the neighboring mill, necessary for the production of the sweet grain.
The passage of the Caravan of Freedom was evoked today by the people of Ciego de Avila, in the same place where the bearded men of the Rebel Army made a stop in January 1959 to celebrate, together with this people, the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
The consolidation of actions to improve the quality of life of the people is one more purpose of the workers of the Security and Protection Company (SEPROC) of the province of Ciego de Ávila, based on the commitment they assume with the National Transformation Program in Neighborhoods and Communities.
A vanguard of young people and students reissue on January 1st. the Caravan of Freedom, leaving from the East of the country and entering Havana on January 8. Today this multicolored and cheerful caravan will arrive in Ciego de Ávila, coinciding with the date that Fidel's bearded men did it, in 1959.
Achieving the active participation of the workers in the conformation of the economic plan, constitutes one of the priorities of the Cuban Worker Union (CTC) in Ciego de Ávila, in homage to the 84th anniversary of its constitution that will be commemorated on January 28th, date on which the union movement will also celebrate the 170th anniversary of the birth of José Martí.
The improvement of the national education system, a process that takes up previous experiences and adopts new "paths" to raise the quality of teaching, remains a priority, with the aim of preserving Education as a conquest of the Cuban Revolution.
With a school network made up of 405 educational institutions, two higher than the completed stage, Ciego de Ávila continues from today the 2022‒2023 school period, whose enrollment exceeds 68,500 students.
Ciego de Ávila concluded 2022 with an infant mortality of 6.2 per 1,000 live births and, although it is not a notable result on the national scene, it did behave below the country's average, since eight other provinces showed this indicator more deteriorated. The municipality of Primero de Enero was the only one in the province that had no deaths.
During the year 2022, the Maternal and Child Care Program (PAMI by its Spanish initials) focused its efforts on improving strategies to guarantee the well-being of children, pregnant women, and postpartum women in Ciego de Ávila.
After a triad of hard years, in which the usual number of annual visitors became a goal on the horizon and not a plan, the Jardines del Rey tourist destination, located in the north of Ciego de Ávila, can finally think of a future of growth.
Rarely, very rarely, has a slogan in Ciego de Ávila gone viral for the good of the community, to the point that it has become a mobilizing phrase, which brings together neighbors, company directors and mass organizations in the same trench: « Embrace the neighborhood without wasting a day.
With the transparency and equanimity that distinguish him, and impregnated with confidence in his people to achieve a year 2023 with superior indicators, Tomás Alexis Martín Venegas, governor of the province of Ciego de Ávila, examined the stage that concludes.
Just a few days after the mission was entrusted, the man received a couple of pieces of news that he had been waiting for a long time. At 55 years old, he would not necessarily have to yearn for "grandmother", but the WhatsApp messages announcing two grandchildren on the way crowned a moment that, now he understands, were the definitive impulse.
Ena Elsa Velázquez Cobiella, Minister of Education, highlighted the collective responsibility in the adequate execution of the State budget, when speaking in the first ordinary session of the recently constituted Municipal Assembly of Popular Power (AMPP) in the territory of Morón.
Accountability is a basic principle of the People's Power system in Cuba and, consequently, for the second time in his term, Tomás Alexis Martín Venegas, governor of Ciego de Ávila, put his management in the last year under scrutiny, which complies with article 177 of the Constitution of the Republic and Law 138 on the Organization and Functioning of the Provincial Government of People's Power.
Entitled "Ability to diagnose dermatological diseases in residents of the dermatology specialty", this award-winning research was carried out and applied at the Provincial Hospital of Ciego de Ávila.
It was with its sights fixed on the communities far from the provincial capital and with less forms of connectivity that the Territorial Division of ETECSA in Ciego de Ávila was able to be fairer and generate a greater impact amid the limitations that 2022 brought.
In recent weeks, citizens who go to the country's processing offices to inquire about the possibility of an increase in the price of the current passport or the limitation of the acquisition of the travel document by a certain group of people have become recurring. Faced with this situation, the Directorate of Identification, Immigration and Aliens (DIIE) of the Ministry of the Interior reiterates that the procedures and formalities established by the Law in this regard are maintained and no change in its cost is foreseen immediately.
The importance of achieving municipal autonomy from the economic point of view and ceasing to be a territory with a deficit to become one with a surplus, based on the existing conditions and the potential of the agricultural and sugarcane sectors, was one of the points discussed in the first session of the Municipal Assembly of Popular Power (AMPP) of Baraguá, after being constituted the present legislature.
The local development project Servtes-Desarrollo, from the municipality of Morón, in Ciego de Ávila, strengthens its work in the strategic axes of the Cuban economy by guaranteeing the vitality of technological equipment through recovery, repair and maintenance works.
The opening of a children's house in the Patria popular council, in the municipality of Morón, contributes to materialize in the province of Ciego de Ávila the government programs of Transformation in Neighborhoods and Communities, Attention to Demographic Dynamics and Advancement of Women.
It may be that other years the protocol act has been better; the incentives may even have been more "reinforced", but one who has seen many awards to the best athletes of the year in the province, has only to recognize the love and humility of the honorees in the 2022 edition.
Under drizzle, a representation of the people of Ciego de Ávila celebrated today the 64th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution, during a political-cultural act that took place in the municipality of Ciro Redondo, distinguished as the most integral due to the sustained advances in production, the economy and the services to the population.
Arnaldo Rodríguez announced it just a few days ago, when, after enjoying the soccer World Cup final, he went to the recording studio to continue polishing a musical theme that could be the anthem of Ciego de Ávila the next year. Ciego de Ávila Heartbeat will be the culmination and beginning.
The inauguration of social works and the checking of prioritized tasks occupied the weekend of the highest authorities of Ciego de Ávila, in a boost to the political movement #DecisiveEffort, which seeks to contribute to the socioeconomic development of the province without wasting a day.
The member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and First Secretary in Ciego de Ávila, Liván Izquierdo Alonso and Tomás Alexis Martín Vanegas, Governor of the province, inaugurated 30 modern and comfortable apartments in Morón in the new Camilo Cienfuegos neighborhood, northeast of the city.
Relatives of Lieutenant Enrique Olivera donated to the Colonel Simón Reyes Hernández Provincial Museum, in Ciego de Ávila, the pistol used by this Rebel Army combatant in La Sierra Maestra.
All the restaurants and cafeterias of the Extra-Hotel Branch of Palmares in Ciego de Ávila are preparing festivities for the end of the year, with emphasis on the offer on Saturday, December 31.
In an atypical school year closure, which still "drags" the curricular adjustment caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Higher Education delivered more than 500 graduates in Ciego de Ávila in various disciplines of medical, technical, social, agricultural and livestock sciences.
It was necessary to wait a little more than four decades, or better, for 44 fights of these characteristics to elapse, for the representative team of the municipality of Ciro Redondo to win its first title in a Provincial Championship. However, this Saturday, December 24, its people said "better late than never."
The Ciro Redondo factory and its neighboring bioelectric plant once again get attention for this 2022-2023 sugar harvest in Ciego de Ávila.
The Ciego de Ávila Electric Company reports that yesterday, Thursday, there was no deficit at any time of the day. For today, no effects are forecast for this cause, except for the hours of maximum demand in which, due to low reserve levels, a deficit of 4 megawatts (MW) is estimated for the province.
The member of the Central Committee and first secretary of the Communist Party in Ciego de Ávila, Liván Izquierdo Alonso, called in a meeting with producers from the sugar sector to get the accounts right in a harvest with material limitations, but with the desire to achieve efficiency with the resources available in the Ciro Redondo sugar factory, from the municipality of the same name, in Ciego de Ávila.
This Thursday in Holguín, the Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, Vice Prime Minister of Cuba, verified the rehabilitation process of unit two of the Lidio Ramón Pérez Thermoelectric Power Plant, Felton, in the municipality of Mayarí.
This Thursday, there was a division of honors between Ciro Redondo and Primero de Enero, so we will have to wait for the simple game next Saturday to find the monarch of the 44 Provincial Baseball Championship.
The will to preserve education as one of the main achievements of the Revolution, close to its 64th anniversary, was ratified today from the municipality of Morón, in the province of Ciego de Ávila, during the celebrations for Educator's Day.
If 1,000 basic need stores existed in Ciego de Ávila, more than 1,000 queues and 100,000 daily opinions could be witnessed since the sale of the New Year's basket or module began, announced in the middle of the month by this newspaper. It has been the trending topic of the network… of commercial stores.
If Wilfredo Osuna did not speak with his hands, he would still be a man dressed in gestures; the most eloquent of them, having dedicated himself to Education for 46 years out of the 64 he already has. Moreover, although in the other 18 there were also signs anticipating this future, he prefers to think that the sign language with which he imitated his deaf neighbor was just adolescent empathy and not a harbinger of a special teacher.
“We are prosperous blacks thanks to Fidel and the Revolution,” Professor Norka Inés González Hernández frequently repeats when referring to her and her daughters, “and people laugh, but she expressed it that way because it is the truth, since we come from a very humble family and this social system dignified us”, she adds.
The 31st edition of the Havana International Book Fair will market 4,000,200,000 printed books and 4,200 titles, its organizers reported today at a press conference.
When everything seemed to indicate that Ciro Redondo would threaten to checkmate Primero de Enero in the playoff of the 44th Provincial Baseball Championship, the current champions took the second game out of the freezer, of a double bill, which took place at the Sergio stadium Antuña.
With a vision of tourism development different from the one that gave rise to this activity in Cuba during the Neocolonial period ―when Prohibition in the United States displaced travelers to this Island, converted into a place of gambling, alcohol and prostitution― the Cuban Revolution channeled the progress of the sector after its triumph in 1959.
The constitution in the province of Ciego de Ávila of a section of the Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Cuba (CCRC) will expand the opportunities to train and increase the participation of local businesses in commercial events aimed at promoting exports of products and services.
It would be difficult to draw a dividing line in Roberto Rivas Fraga, because in that Popular Council a trickle of water reaches some houses, in others it runs smoothly, even through the alleys, while others are afflicted with a chronic drought that not even thieves of water completely relieve: pulling it forcefully to enter it does not always work.
If there is something to do at the end of a year full of adversities and shortcomings, it is to say goodbye with celebrations and the hope that the future (and the future) may be better. That is why the cultural, sports and Commerce institutions announced a schedule of activities that try to celebrate our battles at all costs. "And in this battle, the people have been the protagonists," Liván Izquierdo Alonso, first secretary of the Communist Party in Ciego de Ávila, said.
Surviving 12 Presidents of the United States, all with ravenous appetites and a claim to eat the little alligator for lunch, is one of the greatest acts of heroism by any people on earth.
The days are repeated every 24 hours, but none is the same as another. On Wednesday, October 12, 2022, far from his homeland, Andy Granda went out on the tatami with the same calm as always and with the certainty that he was in a position to make a "great role" (meaning achieve something very big, a performance of excellence, relevant, unprecedented).
Food production, a program that needs to be strengthened in the 10 municipalities of Ciego de Ávila, will focus attention on the II Provincial Conference of the Union of Agricultural, Forestry and Tobacco Workers, scheduled for December21st and 22nd, in Ciego de Ávila.
The Presidency of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus recently approved a declaration on the need to put an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the Government of the United States of America against Cuba.
When Marta Hernández Fleitas, an 82 year-old woman, reads this interview, she will continue to feel proud of the family she has created. Her son, Amaury Gómez Hernández, has been very clear about honoring the continuity of the action and the thought that she has instilled in him.
The Electric Union (UNE) reported that yesterday the electricity service was not affected due to a generation deficit.
The December paddocks have already recorded the problem, even though the exact havoc of the drought cannot be measured in liters (L), because every time the Dairy and Livestock managers speak, they agree on the same point: no delivery to the industry all the milk that comes out of the udders.
Today, the constitution of the Municipal Assembly of Popular Power (AMPP) in the municipality of Morón, confirmed the empowerment of women in Ciego de Ávila society when some 35 took office as delegates, two of them elected as president and vice president, and another appointed as secretary of that government structure.
As in all of Cuba, the Popular Provincial Court of Ciego de Ávila and its structures in municipalities celebrate with various activities the 49 years that have elapsed since its creation, on December 23, 1973, when a reorganization of the Cuban judicial system took place.
The Electric Power Company reports that yesterday the electrical service was affected from 5:18 p.m. to 7:28 p.m. The maximum impact was 326 MW at 6:20 p.m.
As an expression of power framed in the genuine popular character that characterizes the Cuban social project, and in compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Law, this Thursday the Provincial Committee of the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC) in Ciego de Ávila approved, in extraordinary plenary session, the proposals for pre-candidacies for deputies to the National Assembly of People's Power.
This Thursday, the Ministry of Finance and Prices (MFP by its Spanish initials) reported that it has been decided to extend until June 30, 2023 the tariff benefits temporarily approved by Resolution 309, of July 15, 2021, regarding the exemption from payment of customs tax for non-commercial importation of food, toiletries and medicines by passengers and as accompanied baggage.
The creation of facilities for more than 55,300 older adults in the province of Ciego de Ávila is one of the government priorities in view of the growing aging population and as part of the Demographic Dynamics Care Program in the country.
The two teams that disputed the title in the last edition of the Provincial Baseball Championship, Primero de Enero and Ciro Redondo, could do it again in this fight in 2022, judging by the results this Wednesday in the semifinal playoffs they had on stage the José Ramón Cepero and Diciember 14 stadiums (in Florence).
The journalists’ work of the year 2022 from Ciego de Ávila was recognized this Wednesday with the Eddy Martin Award, in a simple act organized by the Union of Cuban Journalists in the province, which was held at the Colonel Simón Reyes Hernández Provincial History Museum.
Stimulating innovative thinking in teachers that allows transforming educational practice, to continue contributing to educational improvement, is one of the immediate challenges that the Association of Pedagogues of Cuba (APC) is looking at, at the gates of a new year.
Another step in the use of the waters of the Zaza-Ciego master canal is taken in the municipality of Majagua with the cleanup of land infested with marabou, which in a first stage will cover some 469.7 hectares (ha) for planting in the present cold campaign.
