El Nuevo Día8d
“Chaos has been created”: inmates of Hogar Intermedio denounce hostile treatment and obstacles to study for their master’s degrees
Three female inmates studying for a master’s degree at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) have allegedly faced obstacles in the past months to complete their homework and use their electronic ...
El Nuevo Día26d
“Not a surprise”: Duration of power outages due to load shedding doubled despite additional generation resources
The impact that the so-called load relays had on customers throughout 2024 doubled the previous year’s records, a reflection of the deterioration in the power generation fleet that not even the ...
El Nuevo Día9d
“I was fired by email”: Puerto Rican narrates how she was laid off from the federal Department of Education
Puerto Rican-Dominican Débora Menieur Núñez experienced firsthand the layoffs at the federal Department of Education, which are now getting worse, following the decision of Donald Trump’s ...
El Nuevo Día9d
Only six municipalities gained population between 2020 and 2024: experts analyze possible causes
Only six municipalities in the northwest and mountainous area of Puerto Rico registered a slight increase in their population between 2020 and 2024, a fact that mayors and experts linked mainly to ...
El Nuevo Día9d
Group proposing independence by decree held virtual meeting with Senate Republican leader’s aide
The proposal openly clashes with the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence that recognizes that authority over the territories is in the hands of Congress. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson) ...
El Nuevo Día12d
12 key points of the Puerto Rican initiative in favor of a Trump decree for independence
Washington D.C. - The effort by a group from Puerto Rico and the diaspora to draw the attention of President Donald Trump, with the goal of steering the independence of the Puerto Rican ...
El Nuevo Día12d
Alternative to the challenges of climate change: Puerto Rican company promotes structural safety technology
With a country immersed in the chaos caused by the earthquakes at the beginning of 2020, evictions of public and private buildings were the order of the day every time an aftershock was registered.
El Nuevo Día8d
EPA dismantles environmental regulations: what will be the implications for Puerto Rico?
The promise by the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reverse, revise or terminate some thirty policies and regulations that seek to ensure public health and air and water quality in ...
El Nuevo Día13d
Puerto Rican group proposes to Trump to grant Puerto Rico independence by decree: these are their suggestions
Washington D.C. - A group of Puerto Rican lawyers, economists and activists sent the White House and Congress a document - as if it were a potential executive order from President Donald Trump ...
El Nuevo Día25d
LatinoJustice invokes FOIA to demand accountability for detentions and harassment of Puerto Ricans in ICE raids
Washington D.C. - Through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the LatinoJustice organization has asked the Department of Homeland Security to turn over all documents related to incidents in ...
El Nuevo Día27d
CUD president on HSI operative: “There is a substantial amount of business that is going to be affected if this continues”
The president of the Centro Unido de Detallistas (CUD) Ramón Barquín III, acknowledged that the intervention of federal authorities in a store in Cupey does affect the operations - and the calm ...
El Nuevo Día9d
Bill to move the Puerto Rico Police Department out of DSP would create new office to manage information and a transition committee
With the exclusion of the Uniformed Police Force from the Department of Public Safety (DPS), the Police Commissioner would recover the title of superintendent, with full administrative and fiscal ...