SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Puerto Rico’s government announced Tuesday that it is freezing all future tax credits and nearly $2 billion in funds for special assignments to help improve cash flow and balance the budget for a U.S. territory mired in a decade-long recession. They are the latest measures taking effect as a federal control board that oversees the island’s finances gets ready to approve a fiscal plan many believe will be amended to include severe austerity measures.
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Miriam Colon, iconic US Latina movie, theater actress, dies
Miriam Colon, an icon in U.S. Latino theater who starred in films alongside Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, has died. Her husband, Fred Valle, told The Associated Press that Colon died early Friday because of complications from a pulmonary infection.
Kosei Tanaka To Be Ringside at Cotto PR Card To Scout Eliminator
Rising Puerto Rican star Angel ‘Tito’ Acosta open up his training camp to the Puerto Rico media to show his condition for his upcoming WBO world title eliminator fight against # 1 mini flyweight contender from Namibia Jafet ‘The Lion’ Uutoni this Saturday February 11 in Miguel Cotto’s hometown in Caguas, Puerto Rico as part of Noche De Campeones DIRECTV series. “I feel great we had a great training camp and I really feel very motivated to have a big win on Saturday night and gain my way to my dream of becoming a world champion,” said Acosta.
Fast radio burst tied to distant dwarf galaxy, and perhaps magnetar
Fast radio bursts, which flash for just a few milliseconds, created a stir among astronomers because they seemed to be coming from outside our galaxy, which means they would have to be very powerful to be seen from Earth, and because none of those first observed were ever seen again. A repeating burst was discovered in 2012, however, providing an opportunity for a team of researchers to repeatedly monitor its area of the sky with the Karl Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico and the Arecibo radio dish in Puerto Rico, in hopes of pinpointing its location.
The Mystery of Part-Time Pulsars
A new discovery has upended the widely held view that all pulsars are orderly ticking clocks of the universe. A survey done at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has fortuitously discovered two extremely strange pulsars that undergo a “cosmic vanishing act.”
Operation ‘Just Punishment’ nets 38 arrests for drug trafficking, firearms violations
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations , working jointly with other federal and local law enforcement agencies, conducted simultaneous takedowns Thursday in the municipality of Cayey and Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts and Florida, during an operation dubbed ‘Just Punishment’ that resulted in the arrest of 38 individuals for their alleged participation in a drug trafficking and illegal firearms conspiracy.