HAVANA, Cuba.- Cuban First Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez highlighted in the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT) the effort, dedication, audacity of the radio and television workers in their broadcasts during Hurricane Irma’s passage through Cuba.

Diaz-Canel said there were no information gaps and criticized the great media and those hostiles to the Revolution, which at all times tried to denigrate what Cuba was doing with its Defense Councils.

Today in the country we walk the streets, we already have the school year in motion, and the main services at least in the capital are already revived. That is only possible in an integrated and informed society like ours, Diaz-Canel remarked.

The first Vice-President of the Councils of State and Ministers highlighted the presence of the entire Cuban press in Internet action with timely and truthful information during the different phases established by the National Civil Defense Staff, and emphasized, we did a job in social networks that has to be studied.

In referring to the role of youth in continued transmissions and in radio, television and Internet reviews, Diaz-Canel said that people were seen surpassing fatigue and the country discovered new faces, which do well and master the processes with a lot of responsibility.

During the ICRT’s expanded board of Directors, Vice President Guillermo Pavon Pacheco led a detailed analysis of the work developed by the ICRT management body to face and reduce the risks of disaster caused by Hurricane Irma’s.

Pavon Pacheco reported on the countless hours of radio and television broadcasting, the decisions taken in just a few hours, the cooperation of political and mass organizations, the Defense Council, as well as the extraordinary interweaving between radio and television in the fulfillment of the same goal.

He also recognized that in the fulfillment of the fundamental tasks, the ICRT maintained a close relationship with several ministries and institutions, in particular the Ministry of Culture, the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC), the Ministries of Communications, Interior, and Science, and other institutions.

(Taken from Cubadebate)