New Era, Windhoek, Namibia, April 30, 1992:

Cuba's economic difficulties are turning the nation into one of the greenest and healthiest in the world... Petrol supply has dropped by two-thirds in the last two years...

Those who do not stick to their allocated quota [of electricity] risk having their power cut off for up to a week, with escalating penalties for consistent offenders.

Three years ago, President Fidel Castro's government introduced a new transport policy for the island that is based on bicycles... City bus services have been cut in half...

The measures, which have made traffic jams a thing of the past and cleaned the city's air, have captured the imagination of environmental groups throughout the world.

In March, a delegation calling itself The World of the Bicycle Group traveled to Havana to see if Cuba's bicycle programme could be implemented elsewhere.

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