Community Services

Burning trash bins turn neighborhoods in Holguín into a health trap

The Yayabo River, a symbol of Sancti Spíritus, is drowning in garbage and the inaction of the authorities

The Hill has the key... and also a swamp of waste in the heart of the Cuban capital

Enormous dump raises concerns in Guantánamo: "The rats enter the houses and the stench doesn't let us live."

Havana normalizes the unhealthy: food sales amidst accumulated trash in the streets

Rivers turned into dumping grounds: trash exacerbates flooding in the city of Holguín

Another landfill on the way: the accumulation of garbage is increasing in front of the children's park in Holguín

The Streets of the Revolutionaries: Mountains of Trash, Risk of Epidemics, and Abandonment in the Heart of Havana

Guantánamo resorts to porters and animal traction to tackle the garbage crisis

Rigoberto Ferrera is seeking the recipe that Cubans need the most

A mountain of garbage blocks an intersection in Centro Habana as fears of epidemics grow 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 the authorities talk about preventing hepatitis

Trash and sources of unhealthiness are gaining ground in the "Cradle of Cuban nationality."

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

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

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

Drinking water is lost beneath a landfill in Havana following an alleged break caused by heavy machinery

“Holguín hurts”: garbage, dumps, and neglect consume what was once the cleanest city in Cuba

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

In Matanzas, they don't collect the garbage, but they are joining the Cuba Recicla campaign

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

"They took my father's planter": warnings about looting in 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 elevator service

From playground to 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 bedbug infestation and a micro-dump in the Sorribe neighborhood

Trash and debris block the railway line in Bayamo, putting human lives at risk

"Signatures are being collected" in Havana, but to pick up the garbage, says Rigoberto Ferrera

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

"Havana smells of burnt garbage": the stark portrait of the "City of Wonders"

More than 10 days without water in La Lisa after pipe break: "And no one cares"

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

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

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

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

The Cuban government insists on relocating workers amid the energy crisis and fuel shortage

Creative resistance or revolutionary regression? They improvise a funeral carriage in Bayamo due to lack of fuel

Manuel Marrero calls on Cubans to clean up the garbage this weekend: "We will continue to fight."

They announce a foreign investment project for garbage collection amid the health crisis in Havana

A Cuban shares what struck her the most about Cuba after returning after two years away: “I couldn’t believe it.”

ETECSA warns about trash burning that harms telecommunications while waste overflows in Havana

Fire in the basement of the Focsa building in Havana triggers firefighters' response

Who collects the garbage in Havana?

Cuba on the Edge: A municipality starts making handmade coffins due to a lack of caskets in the country

Holguín: The Other Death After Death

"Another achievement of the government": The authorities admit 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 school 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 Jesús María, Old Havana

Announcement of the start of construction for the crematorium in Sancti Spíritus after years of delays

Fifteen electric vehicles are incorporated into funeral services in Havana

Only after a complaint from the parish priest, authorities removed garbage in front of the Holy Trinity Church in Santiago de Cuba

A recurring danger: neighbors 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 ask where the "progress" is in a city that is destroyed and has collapsed services

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

Havana accumulates garbage, and the government admits it does not know how much is generated

Workers from Minrex are put to fumigate in Plaza de la Revolución