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Highlights
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The Ministers for Construction, Energy and Mining, Communications, Agriculture, Domestic Trade, and the Deputy Minister of Public Health are still on site in the province of Guantanamo coordinating the recovery actions after the passing of Hurricane Matthew.
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Maisí’s Municipal Defense Council (Guantanamo) increased the proportion of affected houses to 94% of the total housing fund in Maisí.
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The Ministry of Energy and Mining confirmed that the reestablishment of the electricity service in the city of Baracoa will take one month and said that the situation in Maisí is very complicated.
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The agricultural losses amount to 35,000 million pesos in the municipality of Baracoa alone.
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Authorities of the province of Holguín are providing for the People’s Councils of Nibujón and Cayo Guin that have become isolated from the rest of the province of Guantanamo due to the collapse of a bridge of the river Toa.
Situation Overview
The Municipal Defense Council of Maisí in the province of Guantanamo has raised the number of affected houses to 94% of the total housing fund of the territory. The situation is exacerbated by the severe damages to state institutions, schools, hospitals, polyclinics, video-viewing rooms and other social spaces, limiting the availability of safe shelters for the people that remain evacuated in the little buildings that remain and in the caves in the area habilitated for that purpose.
The 28,550 people in the mountainous region of Maisí face the consequences of the rupture of all water networks of the area. National authorities are working hard to provide food and safe water through tanker trucks to the population of Maisí and those evacuated in other territories.
The telecommunication and electricity services are gradually being restored in the eight most affected municipalities of Guantanamo, with the exception of Baracoa and Maisí. The city of Baracoa, world heritage site since 2001, confirms that it will take around a month to reestablish the service to the entire population. In Maisí, technicians sustain that the recovery of the electrical sector will be very complicated.
While waiting for official reports on the extent of the damages inflicted by Hurricane Matthew, the media informs that the agricultural losses amount to 35,000 million pesos (“moneda nacional”) in the municipality of Baracoa alone, as the production of coconut and cocoa has been severely impacted.