Cuban Transport Minister, Jorge Luis Sierra, said on Tuesday in the island's eastern province of Granma that the Cuban government will allocate all the necessary resources for the rehabilitation of the national transport network heavily affected by the heavy rains in that territory.

Sierra, who is a member of the Political Bureau of the Cuban Communist Party, said the hardest hit sectors were transportation, agriculture and the sugar cane industry.

The Cuban official noted that brigades from the Ministry of Construction, supported by the Revolutionary Armed Forces, will undertake the most intense work which includes the repairing of bridges and of stretches of the national transport network.

Sierra said the resources assigned to Granma will take in new equipment and spare parts and a budget devoted to guarantee the good condition for the labor working on the rehabilitation of the national transport network.

For his part, Cuban Minister of Construction, Fidel Figueroa, said the works in Granma will be supported by a national brigade prepared to function with total autonomy.

The heavy rains associated to tropical storm Noel, which affected the island from late October till early November, damaged 2,147 kilometers of roads and 48 percent of the territorial transport network, causing a temporary interruption of the communications among the 37 settlements of that Cuban province.
(cubanews)