Cuba: Bloody hell!

SANTA CLARA, Cuba, April 18 (www.cubanet.org) - Women in Villa Clara province must have registered by April 16 to be allowed to buy their allotment of sanitary pads seven times a year, according to an announcement by CMHW, provincial radio net.

In order to register for this census, women between the ages of 10 and 55 had to present an ID card and their ration book; the registration procedure lasted for three days and involved long lines of women waiting to register and a number of health care workers pulled from other duties to work full time on the census.

The broadcast public service announcement explained that a higher-quality sanitary pad than the ones available previously will be distributed seven times a year and that the price will go up from 80 cents to 1.20 pesos.

Several women commented that seven times a year will be a lot better than the present two or three times a year these products are now available.

What is it the Jamaicans say? Blood....