CUBA NEWS
November 11, 2004

FROM CUBA Staircase collapses at Masonic lodge in Havana 2v39g

HAVANA, Cuba, November 8 (Lzaro Garca / cubanet.sergipeconectado.com) - A staircase collapsed at the Unin Hispanoamericana Masonic lodge in the Havana district of Luyan, 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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