Odds and ends

• The Chicago Tribune reports on Havana Bay and Luyano River pollution, and efforts to clean it up.

• A Cuban media report on how U.S. sanctions cost some Cubans their jobs working on foreign cruise ships.

• A BBC Spanish roundup of the “thousands of debates” taking place in workplaces across Cuba. Foreign reporters have not witnessed them directly, but a hospital worker and communist youth official told BBC that workers complained about pay, work conditions, the dual-currency system, and “bad conditions” in hospitals. He wondered how it is possible that the health sector earns hard currency by providing medical services abroad, but has not raised the pay of its personnel in Cuba.