{"id":14796,"date":"2025-12-16T12:41:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/?p=14796"},"modified":"2025-12-16T16:53:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:53:39","slug":"cuban-prime-minister-urges-acceleration-of-recovery-after-hurricane-melissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/cuban-prime-minister-urges-acceleration-of-recovery-after-hurricane-melissa\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban Prime Minister Urges Acceleration of Recovery after Hurricane Melissa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14797\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Chequeo-Marcha-Recuperacion-Melissa-1-e1765921671148.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Chequeo-Marcha-Recuperacion-Melissa-1-e1765921671148.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Chequeo-Marcha-Recuperacion-Melissa-1-e1765921671148-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Chequeo-Marcha-Recuperacion-Melissa-1-e1765921671148-768x413.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero urged accelerating recovery efforts following Hurricane Melissa\u2019s passage through eastern Cuba, local media reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>During a meeting to review the progress of the recovery efforts, led by Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel, Marrero emphasized the need to prioritize the reconstruction of damaged homes.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister also demanded \u201cexhaustive control\u201d of the materials delivered for these efforts, according to reports published in Granma and Juventud Rebelde.<\/p>\n<p>Several ministers participated in the assessment, and the governors of Santiago de Cuba, Guant\u00e1namo, Granma, Las Tunas, and Holgu\u00edn\u2014provinces affected by the storm\u2014appeared to explain the situations in their respective territories.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the construction and repair of homes, efforts in the towns damaged by Tropical Storm Melissa are focused on increasing food production and restoring basic services, according to press reports.<\/p>\n<p>Both newspapers highlight the intervention of Health Minister Jos\u00e9 Angel Portal, who explained that \u201cof the 710 institutions affected in the five provinces, 185 have already been repaired, 27 of them in the last week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrently, work is underway at 29 facilities; the main damage is related to carpentry, false ceilings, and leaks,\u201d Portal stated, according to the sources.<\/p>\n<p>She also stated that \u201cactive case finding among the population in those provinces has been increased, with special emphasis on at-risk groups,\u201d and that \u201cvector control measures are being intensified\u201d to prevent an epidemiological crisis in the region.<\/p>\n<p>At the meeting, held yesterday afternoon, \u201cthe situation unfolding\u201d in areas of Villa Clara affected by heavy rains over the weekend was reviewed.<\/p>\n<p>The governor of that central Cuban province, Milaxy Yanet S\u00e1nchez, reported that \u201cmore than 253 millimeters of rain accumulated in just a few hours, causing severe flooding in communities in the municipalities of Sagua la Grande and Cifuentes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She explained that \u201c753 people were evacuated, the vast majority to the homes of family, neighbors, or friends,\u201d and reported damage to road infrastructure, among other issues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero urged accelerating recovery efforts following Hurricane Melissa\u2019s passage through eastern Cuba, local media reported on Tuesday. During a meeting to review the progress of the recovery efforts, led by Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel, Marrero emphasized the need to prioritize the reconstruction of damaged homes. The Prime Minister also demanded \u201cexhaustive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14798,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796\/revisions\/14798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}