The Director of the Office of the Historian of the City of Havana, Eusebio Leal Spengler, will receive the National Prize of Environment 2018, for the results of his management on the restoration and conservation of patrimony.
The tribute to the members of Las Villas Front began in this Cuban province with the change of flowers in the niches where the Che and his companions´ remains rest in the sculptural complex of Santa Clara.
Army Corps General Leopoldo Cintra Frias, Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), presided in Pinar del Rio the meeting of the Defense Council next to Major General Ramon Pardo Guerra, Chief of the Civil Defense National General Staff.
According to the information from the Forecast Center of the Weather Institute, tropical storm Michael has continued to gain in organization and intensity, so it became a hurricane category one of the Saffir Simpson scale, and continues to approach the Western part of the island.
The President of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, called to maintain vigilance and preventive measures to avoid affections by climatic events, after the heavy rains that impacted the West and center of the country.
In a tour of Sancti Spiritus Major General Ramon Pardo Guerra, chief of the Civil Defense National General Staff, called to extreme safety and protection measures to the intense rains left by the subtropical Storm “Alberto”.
Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, headed a government meeting with a teleconference with the main authorities of the Cuban central provinces.
The Civil Defense National General Staff decreed this Friday the informative phase for the provinces of Pinar del Rio, Artemis, Mayabeque and Isla de la Juventud Special Municipality, before the advance of tropical storm Nate.
According to information from the Cuban National Forecasting Center, Irma continues to be an intense hurricane category five on the Saffir-Simpson scale, heading west-northwest, increasing travel speed to 26 kilometres per hour. It is expected that in the next 48 to 72 hours it will affect the eastern region of Cuba.
