As Cuba continues to cope with a nationwide energy outage and the results of Hurricane Oscar hitting the nation’s east coast, not one of the confirmed 1,600 Canadians on the island have requested any consular help in returning to Canada, World Affairs confirmed to CTVNews.ca.
In an emailed assertion, World Affairs says 1,627 Canadians are registered within the voluntary Registration of Canadian Overseas system, however that the quantity just isn’t reflective of the precise variety of Canadians within the nation, because it displays solely those that select to register or those that didn’t replace their profile.
In accordance with World Affairs, it has “acquired 20 enquiries, principally associated to journey choices and journey recommendation updates,” including that officers stand prepared to supply consular help to Canadians if wanted.
“We encourage Canadians to verify the Journey Recommendation and Advisories in case of updates, and to enroll with the Registration of Canadians Overseas service to obtain vital data,” it stated.
Whereas elements of Havana, Cuba’s capital, regained energy on Tuesday, a lot of the nation stays at the hours of darkness. The extended blackout started final Thursday, following a large outage that left the nation’s close to 11 million residents with out energy.
Makes an attempt to resolve the difficulty confronted delays after Oscar, which started as a hurricane and advanced right into a tropical storm, made landfall on the island’s east coast Sunday evening, with two of the nation’s main energy vegetation situated within the space.
With information from The Related Press
