Tag: Cuba
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Cuba slowly starts restoring power after island-wide blackout
Cuba restored a trickle of power to its grid by mid-evening on Friday, officials said, hours after the island plunged into a countrywide blackout following the collapse of one of its major power plants. The vast majority of the country’s 10 million residents were still in the dark on Friday night, but scattered pockets of the…
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Power goes out on the entire island of Cuba, leaving 10 million people in the dark
Electricity went out on the entire island of Cuba on Friday, affecting its population of 10 million after one of its main power plants failed, according to Cuba’s energy ministry. The government had tried to keep the lights on earlier in the day by closing schools and having most state workers stay home in an…