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Successive Concussive Earthquakes Keep Getting Bigger In Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN — A 5.8-magnitude quake hit Puerto Rico before dawn today, unleashing small landslides, causing power outages and severely cracking some homes. It was one of the strongest quakes…

VI Free Press January 6, 2020

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3 Earthquakes In 6 Days Rattle Puerto Rico And Keep Borinquens On Edge

SAN JUAN — A 4.9-magnitude earthquake hit Puerto Rico on Thursday in the latest of a rare string of quakes that has frightened many in the U.S. commonwealth. The most…

VI Free Press January 4, 2020

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Scotiabank Completes Sale Of Its Banking Operations In USVI and Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN — Oriental Bank completed the acquisition of the Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands operations of Scotiabank on December 31, 2019. Upon closing, Scotiabank’s Puerto Rico and USVI…

VI Free Press January 2, 2020

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Ex Puerto Rico House of Representatives President Pleads Guilty To Corruption

SAN JUAN — The former president of Puerto Rico’s House of Representatives pleaded guilty today in a 2017 corruption case in which he was ordered to pay a fine but…

VI Free Press December 30, 2019

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5.2 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Southwest Puerto Rico Early Today: USGS

SAN JUAN — An earthquake of magnitude 5.2 shook the southwest areas of Puerto Rico early this morning, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The seismic focus was located…

John McCarthy December 29, 2019

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STIR IT UP! Puerto Rico Picking A Fight With Feds Over Cockfighting Ban

SAN JUAN — Puerto Rico will defy the U.S. government and approve a law to keep cockfighting alive in a bid to protect a 400-year-old tradition practiced across the island despite…

VI Free Press December 18, 2019

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Puerto Rican Man Wanted In Tampa On Cocaine Charge Arrested At C.E.K. Airport

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A Puerto Rican man who mailed 4.4 pounds of cocaine to himself in Tampa by the U.S. mail was arrested at the St. Thomas airport over the…

John McCarthy December 17, 2019

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Department of Interior Assistant Secretary To Visit U.S. Virgin Islands and PR

WASHINGTON — Interior Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs Doug Domenech and Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) Director Nik Pula will be in the U.S. Virgin Islands next week…

VI Free Press November 10, 2019

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Google Digitizes Artworks In Puerto Rico For The 1st Time

SAN JUAN — The 1953 painting by Rafael Tufiño Figueroa features his mother with a red scarf on her head, a determined look on her face and heavy expression lines,…

VI Free Press November 8, 2019

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CVS Rejects Purdue Student’s Puerto Rican ID, Asks For Immigration Papers To Buy Cold Medicine

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana — CVS officials say they are investigating a claim by a Purdue University engineering student who said he was denied the purchase of an over-the-counter cold medicine…

VI Free Press November 3, 2019