A community portal about Puerto Rico with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, also Porto Rico and more commonly Puerto Rico, is a United States territory with Commonwealth status...
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A community portal about Puerto Rico with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, also Porto Rico and more commonly Puerto Rico, is a United States territory with Commonwealth status located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands. The archipelago of Puerto Rico includes the main island of Puerto Rico, the smallest of the Greater Antilles, and a number of smaller islands and keys, the largest of which are Mona, Vieques, and Culebra. Puerto Ricans sometimes refer to their country as Boriken, or the Spanish variant Borínquen, a name for the island used by indigenous Taino people.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A Puerto Rican man has been granted his wish to remain standing -- even in death. A funeral home used a special embalming treatment to keep the corpse of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for his three-day wake.
Santander Bancorp ( SBP ) Stock Quote , Chart , News , Add to Watchlist SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico , Aug. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In light of the continuing challenging general economic conditions in Puerto Rico and the global capital markets, the ...
Children who are physically or sexually abused are more than twice as likely to have asthma as their peers, according to a recent study of urban children in Puerto Rico. In fact, physical and sexual abuse was second only to maternal asthma in all the risk factors tested, including paternal asthma...
We'd never given San Juan, Puerto Rico, a second thought as a ''bring the kids'' vacation destination. To us, it was just a portal to more exotic island destinations.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—A federal judge on Wednesday ordered election officials to add an English translation to Spanish-only ballots for November elections.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: A day after dozens of federal authorities stormed into New Progressive Party Senator Jorge De Castro Font’s office, home and a gas station, confiscating computers, documents, trash bags, two brief cases and other items, the Senator said that he will not step down from his...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Federal agents arrested 59 alleged members of a drug trafficking ring Monday in coordinated raids in small-town Puerto Rico, where some housing projects are under siege by gangsters. The early-morning raids targeted ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) _ Federal agents arrested 59 alleged members of a drug trafficking ring Monday in coordinated raids in small-town Puerto Rico, where some housing projects are under siege by gangsters.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico : Federal agents raided the home and office of a Puerto Rican senator Saturday, seizing evidence from inside the Caribbean island's Capitol, officials said.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) _ A prominent Puerto Rican senator who was targeted in a federal raid said Sunday he will continue a bid for re-election, rejecting calls from his party's leader to drop out of the race.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: Coast Guard rescue crews suspended their search on Friday in waters south of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, for a possible downed aircraft that failed to arrive to its final destination in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Monday night. Still missing is the aircraft pilot...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A prominent Puerto Rican senator who was targeted in a federal raid said Sunday he will continue a bid for re-election, rejecting calls from his party's leader to drop out of the race.
Puerto Ricans are feeling yet another hard blow this week as another powerful politician began to be officially investigated by federal authorities Saturday morning, when some 40 federal agents stormed into the home and offices at the Capitol of New Progressive Party Sen. Jorge De Castro, seizing...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: A federal grand jury charged Governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá with five additional counts and two other people close to his 2004 gubernatorial campaign, with “honest services wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering” late Tuesday, in a five-count indictment...
(AP:SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) A U.S. federal grand jury handed down a new indictment against Puerto Rico Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila Tuesday, charging him with four counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with alleged campaign finance violations.