Hurricane Ike roared on to Cuba today after destroying houses and crops on low-lying islands and worsening floods in Haiti that have already killed more than 300 people.

Interim President Raul Castro told tens of thousands celebrating Cuba’s revolution yesterday that the nation suffered a serious blow when his brother Fidel fell ill a year ago, but the chaos the United States had long predicted never materialised.

Cuba announced today that interim leader Raul Castro will give this week’s Revolution Day address.