[NYTr] Cuba Continues Recovery Efforts after Recent Storms
 
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:12:10 -0600 (CST)

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Cuba Allocates Resources to Provinces Affected by Heavy Rains

Havana, Nov 20 (acn) Cuban Transport Minister, Jorge Luis Sierra, said 
on Tuesday in the island's eastern province of Granma that the Cuban 
government will allocate all the necessary resources for the 
rehabilitation of the national transport network heavily affected by 
the heavy rains in that territory.

Sierra, who is a member of the Political Bureau of the Cuban Communist 
Party, said the hardest hit sectors were transportation, agriculture 
and the sugar cane industry.

The Cuban official noted that brigades from the Ministry of 
Construction, supported by the Revolutionary Armed Forces, will 
undertake the most intense work which includes the repairing of bridges 
and of stretches of the national transport network.

Sierra said the resources assigned to Granma will take in new equipment 
and spare parts and a budget devoted to guarantee the good condition 
for the labor working on the rehabilitation of the national transport 
network.

For his part, Cuban Minister of Construction, Fidel Figueroa, said the 
works in Granma will be supported by a national brigade prepared to 
function with total autonomy.

The heavy rains associated to tropical storm Noel, which affected the 
island from late October till early November, damaged 2,147 kilometers 
of roads and 48 percent of the territorial transport network, causing a 
temporary interruption of the communications among the 37 settlements
of that Cuban province.

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Repairs Begun on Roads Damaged by Storm Noel in Cuba

Havana, Nov 19 (acn) "The repair works have already started on the 
20,000 kilometers of road and 77 bridges damaged by the tropical storm 
Noel on October", said Jorge Luis Sierra, Cuban Transportation Minister 
on Monday.

Sierra gave the central speech in the opening ceremony of the 16th 
Meeting of the Board of Directors of Ibero American Roadways and the 
14th Congress on Asphalt Techniques (CILA) underway at Havana's 
convention center, with the attendance of nearly 600 experts from 20 
countries.

"The repair of over 2,900 kilometers of roadways in the coming five 
year period is part of a project undertaken by Cuban experts to improve 
the island's national transportation network", assured the minister.

The purchase of new vehicles from China and the high tech equipment 
currently being purchased by the Ministry of Construction will 
contribute to an improvement in the quality of Cuban roads.

Weather phenomena such as storms and hurricanes are among the main 
factors with a negative impact on the Cuban economy every year.

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