The entire island of Cuba suffered an electrical blackout that began late Friday morning and went into the night due to the failure of one of the few energy plants that were still working, amid what the government a few hours before called an “energy emergency.”

Cuba’s electrical grid shut down on Friday, putting the country into a blackout after the failure of one of the island’s major power plants, according to its energy ministry.

HAVANA (Reuters) - On Friday 18 October 2024, Cuba restored a trickle of power to its grid by mid-evening, officials said, hours after the island plunged into a countrywide blackout following the collapse of one of its major power plants.

Many Cubans waited in anguish Sunday as electricity on much of the island had yet to be restored days after an island-wide blackout. Their concerns were also raised as Hurricane Oscar made landfall in the southeastern Bahamas and was heading toward their country.

Parts of Cuba and the Bahamas started Sunday under hurricane and tropical storm warnings for Hurricane Oscar, a Category 1 storm that spent part of Saturday nicking Turks and Caicos. Here’s what you need to know from the National Hurricane Center’s 11 a.