After the suspension for two days Of the “non -essential” teaching activities, the sports activities planned for this weekend for the aggravation of the energy crisis suffered by the island are postponed.
“Considering the energy situation that the country presents, and with the aim of contributing to energy saving, the sports activities planned for this weekend in the National Calendar of INDER are postponed,” said the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) in a statement diffused by Hit.
The note indicated that when the conditions allow, the activities now suspended will be reprogrammed.
On the eve, the Government of Cuba announced the suspension of work and teaching activity for February 14 and 15 because of the tense energy situation in the country to “contribute to the necessary savings”, although it added that the activities were exempted ” essential ”.
The measure, which has already been previously taken by the authorities during other blackout peaks, will be in force until this Saturday. According to the statement, “basic services are maintained to the population”, and the workers who are affected by not being able to go to their work will receive “a protection equivalent to the scale salary of the position they occupy, in correspondence with the provisions of the Code of Job”.
At the beginning of last December, a disconnection of the national electrical system forced similar measures.
The aggravation of the electrical scenario hits strongly the depressed Cuban economy and, logically, to families throughout the island, which must also deal with the deep and sustained economic crisis. However, the authorities ensure again and again that the situation must improve as the strategies and measures already announced begin to bear fruit.
Cuba in blackout: energy crisis forces to suspend “non -essential” activities
There are cities in the country that have suffered blackouts of more than 24 consecutive hours in recent days and for the first time in Havana suspensions of the service of at least six hours have been scheduled. A week ago, during a visit to Camagüey, President Miguel Díaz-Canel acknowledged that the blackouts of up to 20 hours a day are “a lot”, but he referred again solutions to the crisis.
However, although Guiteras and Felton rejoined the Sen, a few days later the latter broke down again and will be at least 20 without working, a fact that – together with other breaks and the chronicle lack of fuel – has firing the blackouts again and He has again forced the suspension of activities in the country.
Cuba has been suffering from this energy crisis that has been aggravated since the last quarter of 2024, a period in which three national blackouts were recorded. Two of them were due to unforeseen events that, in a limit operational situation, collapsed the national electrical system.
EFE / ONCUBA.
