High Wind Warning In Effect For Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN — For the first time since 2018, a High Wind Warning is in effect for Puerto Rico, effective Tuesday night through tomorrow morning. This means that strong winds gusting up to 45 mph…
Track Standout Michelle Smith Attends Swanky Sports Awards Gala In Miami
MIAMI — Virgin Islands Sports Ambassador Michelle Smith was invited by the PanAm Sports organization to attend the second PanAm Sports Awards 2023 Gala on behalf of the Virgin Islands Olympic Committee this past weekend.…
Hazardous marine and coastal conditions to continue through the weekend, NWS says
SAN JUAN — Hazardous marine and coastal conditions are expected through at least this upcoming weekend. One beachgoer in Puerto Rico has already died. Please exercise caution! Breezy to windy trade winds will create rough…
Help Police Find Missing Minor Felipe Casanova of St. Croix
CHRISTIANSTED — Police are asking for your assistance to locate a missing minor on St. Croix. Felipe A. “Lil Popa” Casanova, 16, was last seen Monday at 4:00 p.m. in D. Hamilton Jackson Terrace in…
Venezuela and Guyana to meet on December 14 amid territorial dispute
SAO PAULO (Reuters) — Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro will meet with Guyana President Mohamed Irfaan Ali on Thursday amid a territorial dispute between the two countries, according to a letter from the prime minister of…
48 Haitian migrants have been detained on an uninhabited island west of Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN (AP) — U.S. federal authorities said Wednesday that they detained 48 Haitian migrants who were abandoned by smugglers on an uninhabited island between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. U.S. Customs and Border…
A federal grand jury in Puerto Rico indicts three men on environmental crimes
SAN JUAN — Three men have been indicted as part of an ongoing federal investigation into environmental crimes committed on protected land in southern Puerto Rico, authorities announced Thursday. Two of the men are accused of dumping fill…
Book Review: Edel Rodriguez shows Cuban history as a warning for the US in new graphic memoir ‘Worm’
HAVANA (AP) — Decades before Edel Rodriguez made his iconic, mouth-only political illustration of Donald Trump for the cover of Time magazine, he was a boy growing up in Fidel Castro’s Cuba. In his new…
Weekend weather forecast: Hazardous marine conditions still in play, NWS says
SAN JUAN — A long-dominant period northwesterly to northerly swell spreading across the regional waters and increasing trade winds, generated by a strong surface high pressure system across the western-central Atlantic, will promote hazardous marine…
Thousands of tons of dead sardines wash ashore in northern Japan
TOKYO (AP) — Thousands of tons of dead sardines have washed up on a beach in northern Japan for unknown reasons, officials said Friday. The sardines and some mackerel washed ashore in Hakodate on Japan’s…