Although due to difficulties with access and communications the impact of Hurricane Irma is still unkown in several facilities, preliminary information allows experts to state that 80 percent of the natural forests under the Flora and Fauna Business Unit Sancti Spiritus Norte was damaged. According to Sonia María Pérez, economic assistant director of that enterprise, serious damages have been already »

The health professional highlighted the way in which the Cuban medical system focuses on the human being as the most important thing»

As is customary every September 11, the massive tribute began with the traditional march to Loma de la Esperanza and the mausoleum»

    The electricity network was severely damaged with the passage of Hurricane Irma in the province of Sancti Spiritus, particulary in Yaguajay and in the capital city»

Panama will send some 90 tons of humanitarian aid to the Caribbean islands, especially the island of San Martin and Cuba»

All people interested in cooperating with the states hit by the phenomenon are free to make donations»

In a message sent to the Cuban people, the President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Raul Castro said that: “One principle remains immovable: the Revolution will leave no one unprotected and measures are already being adopted to ensure that no Cuban family is left to their fate”. “We face the recovery with the example of Comandante en Jefe »

The greatest contribution of dangerous Hurricane Irma in Sancti Spiritus was the 731 000 000m³ of water received in the nine reservoirs that exist in this central Cuban province between Friday and Sunday. At that moment the territory stored 928 000 000m³, which represents 72 percent of its reservoirs’ capacity. The local Zaza dam, which was just at 15 percent of its »

About four thousand people began to be evacuated since Thursday, September 7, in the municipality of Yaguajay, to the north of the central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus. According to civil defense plans, these people should move to state institutions where shelter is provided in case of powerful hurricanes. The proximity of the category-five Hurricane Irma to the Cuban northern »

First photos of the effect of powerful Hurricane Irma on the Cuban eastern territory of Baracoa»