Community Services

Guantánamo turns to cart bearers and animal traction to tackle the trash crisis

Rigoberto Ferrera is looking for the recipe that Cubans need the most

A mountain of garbage blocks an intersection in Centro Habana as fears of epidemics rise during the summer

Minsap warns of a possible dengue epidemic as garbage, leaks, and power outages contribute to the proliferation of mosquitoes

A month without garbage collection in Cienfuegos while authorities discuss preventing hepatitis

Trash and unsanitary conditions are gaining ground in the "Cradle of Cuban nationality."

Catholic Church of Santiago de Cuba issues a plea to the government: "The situation has become unsustainable."

Residents of the Casino Deportivo organize their own trash collection in response to the collapse of public services

“Communal, please!”: a trash dump expands next to a Children’s Circle in the heart of Vedado

Drinking water is lost under a landfill in Havana after a suspected break caused by heavy machinery

"Holguín hurts": garbage, landfills, and neglect consume what was once the cleanest city in Cuba

"We owe a debt to the city": Authorities admit to a collapse in garbage collection in Matanzas

In Matanzas, garbage is not collected, but they are joining the Cuba Recicla campaign

The streets of the revolutionaries remain buried in trash: viral video portrays the neglect in a central area of Havana

"They took my father's planter": warnings about looting at the Pinar cemetery

A resident in Centro Habana accuses the government and state entities of "counter-revolution" after leaving a block without electricity, water, and an elevator

From playground to garbage dump: this is how Los Caballitos, a symbol of childhood in Holguín, ended up

Garbage trucks and heavy machinery are putting the Albear canal and the water supply of hundreds of thousands of Havana residents at risk

Residents of Santiago de Cuba report a plague of bedbugs and a micro-dump in the Sorribe neighborhood

Garbage and debris block railroad tracks in Bayamo, putting human lives at risk

"Petitions are being collected" in Havana, but to collect the garbage, says Rigoberto Ferrera

Dumpsters burn in Holguín: the once "cleanest city in Cuba" inhales toxic smoke every night

"Havana smells of burning trash": the stark portrait of the "City of Wonder"

More than 10 days without water in La Lisa after a pipe break: "And nobody cares"

"They are not graves, they are rubble": Abandonment of human remains in the Colón Cemetery, denounces Camila Acosta

Will Holguín become the cleanest city again? Residents demand systematic waste collection

Trash bin set on fire near the polyclinic in Guanabacoa amid the collapse of waste collection in Havana

Black water and flooding affect homes in Vista Hermosa, Santiago de Cuba

The Cuban government insists on relocating workers due to the energy crisis and fuel shortages

Creative resistance or revolutionary regression? Funeral carriage improvised in Bayamo due to lack of fuel

Manuel Marrero asks Cubans to collect garbage this weekend: "We will continue to fight."

Announcement of foreign investment project for waste collection amidst the health crisis in Havana

A Cuban shares what impressed her most upon returning to Cuba after two years abroad: “I couldn't believe it.”

ETECSA warns about garbage burning that harms telecommunications as waste overflows in Havana

Fire in the basement of the Focsa building in Havana mobilizes firefighters

Who collects the garbage in Havana?

Cuba on the brink: a municipality begins making handmade coffins due to a lack of caskets in the country

Holguín: The Other Death After Death

"Another achievement of the government": Officialdom admits that Las Tunas has become a dump, and social media does not forgive

Neighbors report: Authorities order dumping of garbage in front of pre-university in Havana

Cuban regime acknowledges the collapse of the capital: Transportation, housing, water, and public health in crisis

Lack of fuel further sinks Havana among mountains of garbage

Is the street for the revolutionaries? Trash and sewage have taken over those in Jesús María, Old Havana

The start of construction for the crematorium in Sancti Spíritus has been announced after years of delays

Fifteen electric vehicles are added to necrological services in Havana

Only after the complaint from the parish priest, authorities removed trash in front of the Santísima Trinidad Church in Santiago de Cuba

A recurring danger: residents tired of waiting improvise a solution for an uncovered manhole in Santiago de Cuba

Catholic Church in Santiago de Cuba denounces neglect and dirt in front of the house of God

Governor promotes successful management; residents question where the "progress" is in a devastated city with collapsed services

Another coffin falls from a hearse in Cuba: the funeral collapse leaves corpses on the street

Havana is accumulating garbage, and the Government admits it does not know how much is being produced

Workers from the Minrex are conducting fumigation in Plaza de la Revolución

A viral outbreak leaves one doctor dead and a building in poor condition in the heart of Santiago de Cuba

Trash in front of the cemetery: neglect in Guantánamo no longer even respects the dead at San Rafael Cemetery

Old Havana forces residents to take their trash directly to the truck: doubts, complaints, and mockery about the new “experience.”

Communal services justify the state of the cemetery in Camagüey, but the delayed response does not erase the neglect

From a clean city to a hotspot of infection: garbage, mosquitoes, and diseases are transforming the face of Holguín

"We live among garbage and diseases": mountains of waste suffocate Havana in the midst of a health crisis

Neighbors block street in Santiago de Cuba with trash

Syringes are found in a park in Havana, and the question is inevitable: what were they doing there?