Pressure on the González Colón administration escalated sharply this past Saturday, when Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz publicly urged both La Fortaleza Chief of Staff Francisco Domenech Fernández and Assistant Chief of Staff Itza García Rodríguez (front row, third and second from right) to resign, describing them as “a burden” and arguing that “prudence and decency” required their removal while under investigation. By THE STAR STAFF Gov. Jenniffer González Colón annou

By THE STAR STAFF LUMA Energy reported on Tuesday that load shedding measures began following the sudden outage of Genera Puerto Rico’s San Juan 6 unit, an event that left 131,654 customers without power. “Load shedding is taking place due to the sudden outage of Genera Puerto Rico’s San Juan 6 unit,” LUMA stated on its social media channels. “This means some customers may experience service interruptions overnight.” The private operator of the island’s electric power transm

By THE STAR STAFF The Municipality of San Juan will host the Union of Ibero-American Capital Cities’ (UCCI) Second Ibero-American Meeting of Caring Cities starting today, bringing together municipal leaders from 12 countries to exchange strategies on social inclusion, care policies and services for vulnerable populations. Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo said the gathering underscores San Juan’s growing role as a regional reference point for people-centered public policy. “Hosting th

By THE STAR STAFF Agents of the Añasco Maritime Unit and the United Rapid Action Forces (FURA by its acronym in Spanish) intercepted a boat with around 50 people on board off the coast of Cabo Rojo in the early hours of Monday morning. According to preliminary information from the Police, at about 4 a.m. an alert was received from the Salty Dog system about a suspicious boat that was sailing about eight miles from the area of Pelayo and Joyuda. Authorities tracked the boat to

Former prosecutor Ernie Cabán (Facebook via Lcdo Ernie Cabán - Página Oficial) By THE STAR STAFF Former prosecutor Ernie Cabán argued that Special Independent Prosecutor (FEI by its initials in Spanish) Ileana Agudo should recuse herself from the investigation involving the Department of Economic Development and Commerce (DDEC) after she shared on her social media a column that described the controversy between La Fortaleza Chief of Staff Francisco Domenech Fernández and form

Sen. Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz By THE STAR STAFF Senate Minority Leader Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz of the Popular Democratic Party filed an appeal before the Puerto Rico Court of Appeals on Monday, seeking to overturn a lower court ruling that barred him from demanding details on 229 cases recently closed by the island Department of Justice. The senator is asking the appellate court to review a decision by the Court of First Instance that found he lacked standing to reques

Rep. Víctor Parés Otero By THE STAR STAFF After the loss of 400 megawatts of generation in the electrical system late last week, lawmaker Víctor Parés Otero, who chairs the Government Committee in the island House of Representatives, will request from LUMA Energy LLC, the private operator of the electrical transmission and distribution network, all data, including maintenance logs, corresponding to the transmission center at the Costa Sur power plant and line number 50400, wh

According to the authorities, Eucebio Mangual, a 63-year-old Ponce resident who went fishing this past weekend and failed to return on Sunday as planned, departed around 6 p.m. Saturday from the Ponce fishing village ramp in a 19-foot white recreational vessel named “Angel.” By THE STAR STAFF The U.S. Coast Guard announced Monday that it was conducting an air and sea search for fisherman Eucebio Mangual, a 63-year-old Ponce resident who went fishing on Saturday and failed to

The Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority reported at a meeting of the Drought Committee on Monday that dry conditions have caused water levels in the island’s reservoirs to keep dropping. Technical staff are continuously evaluating the status of the Carraízo and Cidra reservoirs to determine whether additional measures will be required. By THE STAR STAFF Puerto Rico Secretary of State Rosachely Rivera Santana announced on Monday that the Carraízo and Cidra reservoirs rema

U.S. Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Ill.) speaks with reporters following a news conference with members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus at the Capitol in Washington, on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. García is among some 200 elected officials from across the United States and Puerto Rico who are urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to reject a new appeal filed by bondholders of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By