The head of State urged to increase the training of workers in that sector and promote the tax paying culture at the annual review of the National Statistics and Information Office (ONEI).

At the meeting, held on Tuesday, Díaz-Canel called to seek a friendlier relationship between the providers and processors of statistical information.

Regarding the indiscipline in the delivery of information by institutions, he pointed out that it is an old problem and considered that there is a lack of demand for the stockholders who must pay taxes to the corresponding entities.

In this regard, the president suggested organizing a nationwide debate on this matter, in the structures of the Communist Party of Cuba and the Government, due to the importance of this task for decision-making.

Regarding the workforce deficit in the Municipal Statistics Offices, he pointed out that it is necessary to look for different solutions with a different perspective, “in modern life it is resolved with digital transformation, computerizing and digitally transforming processes.”

“We have challenges, we cannot fail to recognize what you have done in these hard years, but we have to go to another moment, with talent, creativity, and we are convinced that you can do it,” he stressed.

Prime Minister Manuel Marrero, in turn, described the discipline in the delivery of statistical information by ministries, agencies, entities and stockholders linked to non-state management as vital.

He referred to the actions that currently occupy the work of ONEI and its subordinate entities at the territorial level, such as consolidating a monitoring system for the law on Food Sovereignty and Food and Nutritional Security.

The head of Government emphasized that the highest priority, as part of the work projections of the office, is to develop a group of indicators associated with public policies of great impact on the population.

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