Tag: Puerto Rico

Wednesday, October 31st 2018 - 08:46 UTC
Powerball lottery US$ 688m tickets sold in Manhattan and a rural town in Iowa

The co-owner of a Manhattan deli in New York, where someone purchased one of two Powerball tickets that hit the US$ 688 million jackpot said he likely sold the winning ticket, but he has no idea who won.
Thursday, September 21st 2017 - 07:24 UTC
Hurricane Maria's 250km strong winds knock out Puerto Rico, St Croix, and Guadeloupe

Hurricane Maria has knocked out power to the entire island of Puerto Rico, home to 3.5m people, emergency officials have said. Abner Gomez, head of the disaster management agency, said none of the customers of Puerto Rico's Electric Power Authority had any electricity.
Thursday, August 18th 2016 - 06:54 UTC
Fire forces full passenger evacuation of Caribbean Fantasy off Puerto Rico

A fire forced more than 500 people to be evacuated from a cruise ship about a mile off Puerto Rico's northern coast on Wednesday. The U.S. Coast Guard brought passengers to the shore as the fire continued to burn aboard the Caribbean Fantasy, a combination cruise and ferry ship. Other agencies also joined the rescue effort until fire forced them to abandon the ship.
Tuesday, February 2nd 2016 - 12:07 UTC
Havana Club rum war: Bacardi appeals US decision to let Cuba have the trademark

Bacardi filed suit on Monday against the United States demanding an explanation of its decision to let Cuba sell Havana Club rum in the United States once the U.S. trade embargo against the Castro brothers' island is lifted.
Tuesday, August 4th 2015 - 05:35 UTC
Puerto Rico declared on default by Moody's after failing to make debt full payment

Puerto Rico's Government Development Bank announced Monday that it was only able to make a partial payment on its Public Finance Corporation (PFC) debt service due over the weekend. In response to the non-payment of the full service, credit rating agency Moody's said it viewed the situation as a default.
Saturday, July 11th 2015 - 05:59 UTC
Falklands/Malvinas, Puerto Rico and Bolivia's sea outlet claim, in Pope's agenda, reveals Morales

Bolivian president Evo Morales revealed on Friday that Pope Francis told him that there are three pending issues in the continent, Puerto Rico, Falklands/Malvinas and Bolivia's sea outlet claim. The pope has been recognized by all sides as the 'bridge' which helped bring together Cuba and the US after over half a century of mutual distancing.
Monday, June 29th 2015 - 05:58 UTC
Greece in the Caribbean: Puerto Rico admits it's broke and can't pay debts

Puerto Rico’s governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla has admitted that the island cannot pay its roughly $72 billion dollars in debts, an admission that will probably have wide-reaching financial repercussions beginning Monday. Last week the governor and his top staff anticipated they would seek significant concessions from the island’s creditors.
Monday, August 18th 2014 - 06:35 UTC
Exodus: a million more Puerto Ricans on mainland US than in the island

A new study has found that Puerto Rico has undergone such a dramatic population shift that there are now over a million more Puerto Ricans on the US mainland than on the US island territory. The Pew Research Center study showed that between 2010 and 2013, more people left Puerto Rico for mainland US than those who left in the 1980s or 1990s.
Tuesday, January 28th 2014 - 22:38 UTC
Maduro wants Puerto Rico to join Celac, a territory 'free of colonies'

President Nicolás Maduro described the current CELAC summit in Havana as historic and revealed Venezuela has proposed that the group's territories be considered 'free of colonies' and thus invites Puerto Rico to formally join Celac (Community of Latin American and Caribbean state).
Wednesday, May 29th 2013 - 20:55 UTC
Puerto Rican Lawyer speaks at the UN Decolonisation Committee seminar

At a UN Decolonisation Committee seminar, Wilma Reveron, a Puerto Rican lawyer said that the U.S. has made it clear that they do not intend to allow a true exercise of self-determination in Puerto Rico.