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FROM
CUBA
Staircase collapses at Masonic lodge in
Havana
HAVANA, Cuba, November 8 (Lázaro
García / www.cubanet.org) - A staircase
collapsed at the Unión Hispanoamericana
Masonic lodge in the Havana district of
Luyanó, and left four lodges that
used to meet in the building homeless.
The building, built in 1916, needs urgent
repairs which the Masons say they don't
have the resources for. In the immediate
vicinity, 90% of the buildings are in fair
or poor condition, according to official
figures.
Four lodges used the two-story building
for meetings. "If we were to add the
treasuries of the four, it would still not
be enough to repair the building,"
said a Masonic official. "The Great
Lodge of Cuba offered to help with 300 pesos,
or about 11 dollars, which would not be
enough to buy two sacks of cement."
The four lodges are currently looking for
alternate places to hold their meetings.
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