Cuba’s government hopes to have ended or at least minimized “by the end of the year” the power outages that plague the island’s population daily, President Miguel Diaz-Canel said Sunday during a visit to a power plant in Santiago de Kumba (east). Since May, the country has been facing supply difficulties and power outages are […]
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Cuba has asked the US for technical assistance to clean up after a fire at a fuel storage facility
Cuba’s government announced Friday that it has requested and received technical assistance from the United States to clean up after a massive fire at a fuel facility that caused widespread destruction and killed 16 firefighters. Experts from Cuba and the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) joined a video conference meeting Wednesday to discuss the cleanup […]
Cuba will start selling dollars to its citizens
The Cuban government will start selling dollars to its citizens starting today, twenty days after it began buying them at the black market price, with the aim of creating an official foreign exchange market in the country. “We will start selling foreign currency from tomorrow,” Finance Minister Alejandro Gil said on state television yesterday. This […]
Cuba: First case of monkey pox in the country
Cuba’s Ministry of Health has announced the first confirmed case of monkeypox in the country. He is a tourist from Italy who visited the island nation on holiday. According to the relevant information, the Italian lived in a rented house and visited various locations in the western part of Cuba before showing symptoms of the […]
Cuba: Multiplication of foreign tourists compared to 2021
The number of foreign tourists visiting Cuba since the beginning of the year has almost increased sixfold, compared to the corresponding period in 2021, but remains below the levels reached before the Covid-19 pandemic, the government announced today. Authorities hope that the number of Russian tourists will increase when flights suspended due to the pandemic […]
Fuel storage facility fire in Cuba: 16 firefighters dead
A fire that raged for a week in early August at a fuel storage facility in western Cuba killed 16 firefighters, 14 of whom cannot be identified, a medical examiner said. Two firefighters died in the fire, while another fourteen were reported missing. Yesterday Jorge Gonzalez Perez, president of the Cuban Forensic Society, confirmed that […]
Cuba: Second firefighter dead while extinguishing fire at oil facilities
Cuban authorities announced today the death of a 24-year-old firefighter in the operation to extinguish the large fire at oil facilities in Matanzas. This is the second confirmed victim, after the death of a 60-year-old firefighter that was announced on Saturday. After six days, the fire is now “under control”, according to the fire service. […]
Cuba: The fire at a fuel storage facility remains uncontrolled
A fire that broke out Friday at a fuel storage facility in Cuba remained out of control on Monday: authorities said it had destroyed a third tank and threatened a fourth. Alexander Avalos Jorge, an officer with Cuba’s fire brigade, told reporters that “the four tanks” with a capacity of 50 million liters each, which […]
Cuba: Large fire at oil facilities
Seventeen missing and 77 injured are the so far accounts of the fire that broke out due to lightning in oil installations in Cuba, for which the government asked yesterday Saturday for help from abroad. The 17 missing are firefighters who were closest to a burning tank when a powerful explosion occurred, according to the […]
Cuba: At least one dead from the big fire in oil facilities
LAST UPDATE: 12:28 Cuba received offers of help from several countries today following its appeal to deal with a major fire at an oil facility, which was sparked by lightning and followed by explosions, killing at least one person, injuring 121 and leaving 17 missing. About 1,900 people were evacuated from the disaster zone on […]