HURRICANE SANDY

The project includes donations of roofs, mattresses and technology for local mini-industries for the production of construction materials»

President Raul Castro visited some areas damaged by hurricane Sandy in the eastern Cuban province of Santiago de Cuba, where he checked the progress of the recovering work, revealed the national media today.»

The devastated city was in need of assistance, and dedicated work, and that was precisely the mark left by the almost 50-men brigade from Sancti Spiritus’s engineering forces in that eastern Cuban territory.»

Nearly 10 000 plots of tobacco plants are being taken care of by planters from Sancti Spiritus, in order to support the hit-by-hurricane Sandy eastern provinces.»

Citizens in Santiago de Cuba welcomed the government decision to discount by 50 percent the price of construction materials for families whose homes totally or partially collapsed during the recent passage on eastern Cuba of hurricane Sandy.»

President Raul Castro talked with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon about the effects of Hurricane Sandy in this Caribbean country.»

Builders and electricians from the central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus have made valuable contributions to help Santiago de Cuba recover from the damages left by hurricane Sandy.»

The restoration of power in Santiago de Cuba and Holguin, the eastern provinces hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy, remains among the priorities of recovery 10 days after the storm hit the territory.»

President Barack Obama called upon people on Saturday to make donations to the US Red Cross to help millions of citizens affected by Hurricane Sandy, which killed 106 people this week in the United States and caused damage estimated at more than 50 billion dollars.»

Cuban President Raul Castro received Rafael Ramirez, vice president of the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, who arrived in the Santiago de Cuba’s Antonio Maceo Airport this Thursday.»