Guantanamo.-Discussion at the daily meeting on the vitality of the economic and social events in Guantánamo Province centered around the transfer of rice distribution to the standard family basket to the territory, the persistent problem of water supply to the population, the breakages in several bakeries, and the progress and obstacles in the banking process.
In this respect, events and irregularities that affect the course of the economic and social development of the province were analyzed at the meeting, chaired by Yoel Pérez García, first secretary of the Party in the eastern territory, and Carlos Raúl Martínez Turro, vice-governor at the same level.
Some 18 trucks from the provincial cargo base, the enterprise EMCARGA and from different economic organizations are currently dedicated to the extraction, from the port of Santiago de Cuba, of the 480 tons of rice that must guarantee the standard family basket of the population for the month of September and social consumption.
On this subject, Pérez García pointed out the importance of “the municipalities promptly transporting the rice and other goods, so that they are not in the warehouses of the province and arrive more quickly to the people.”
Another issue addressed in the vitality meeting was the complex situation existing with the water supply to the population, with 17 communities, with emphasis on the Manuel Tames Municipality, with more than 15 days without receiving the precious liquid and usual broken pipelines.
As usual, the progress of banking was also checked, a process in which the collection of cash to the banking system increased, but in the municipalities it is necessary to insist on increasing sales and deposits.
The cash that self-employed workers deposit in bank branches is still very little and the required follow-up is not given to the use of electronic channels at the points of sale of agricultural products.
