Senate Vice President Carmelo Ríos Santiago By THE STAR STAFF Senate Vice President Carmelo Ríos Santiago filed a landmark piece of legislation seeking to update Puerto Rico’s Penal Code to address the growing threat of cybercrimes impacting citizens, businesses and government agencies on the island. The bill proposes adding a new Title VI dedicated exclusively to cybercrimes, with more than 70 new articles that define criminal conduct perpetrated through technological means.

“Normandie,” an exhibition opening Tuesday at the Capitol, is a collection of works by prominent artists that pays homage to the hotel that has stood as a symbol of modernity and collective memory within Puerto Rican architecture since the 1940s. By THE STAR STAFF On Tuesday, the Puerto Rico House of Representatives will pay tribute to the history of the venerable Hotel Normandie with the opening of a unique exhibition of oil and acrylic artworks that detail the history of th

Pro-statehood attorney Gregorio Igartúa (Instagram via julioroldanpr) By THE STAR STAFF Pro‑statehood attorney Gregorio Igartúa is urging Puerto Rico to abandon plebiscites as a mechanism for resolving the island’s political status, arguing that they jeopardize long‑established rights of U.S. citizenship and distract from what he views as the territory’s long trajectory toward statehood. Igartúa and 14 others recently wrote to Congress asking lawmakers to certify that Puerto

By THE STAR STAFF Aerostar, the private operator of Luis Muñoz Marín (LMM) International Airport in Carolina, reported Sunday that 7,784 passengers were affected by widespread flight cancellations and delays caused by adverse weather conditions impacting several airports across the United States and Canada. According to the company, the disruptions involved 2,617 arriving passengers and 5,167 departing passengers. The weather‑related operational impacts extended to major airp

Former Treasury Secretary Juan Zaragoza Gómez (Facebook via Juan Zaragoza) By THE STAR STAFF More than 100,000 small and midsize businesses in Puerto Rico -- many of them operating as “doing business as” entities (DBAs) or under pass‑through corporate structures -- would directly benefit from the government’s proposed reductions in individual income tax rates, former Treasury Secretary Juan Zaragoza Gómez said. In a recent interview with the Jay Fonseca program on YouTube, Za

An aerial view of Santurce shows the Luis Lloréns Torres public housing complex in the near background. An audit by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of the Inspector General found that the island’s Public Housing Administration failed over the years to properly manage lead‑based paint hazards in its public housing units. (Wikipedia) By THE STAR STAFF The Puerto Rico Public Housing Administration failed to properly manage lead‑based paint hazards i

The theoretical and practical workshop is designed to be easy to understand and apply, even for those unfamiliar with home gardening. It can be easily implemented in small spaces such as multi-family dwellings. By THE STAR STAFF The Agricultural Extension Service of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) will offer a home garden course in Arecibo on four dates in February and March aimed at people interested in learning how to establish and maintain a garden at home, even with j

Operating a gaming machine without a valid license and sticker constitutes a misdemeanor, with penalties that may include up to six months in jail, fines of up to $10,000, or both, in addition to the revocation of other permits. By THE STAR STAFF Regulations establishing the procedure for the confiscation of slot machines operating illegally in Puerto Rico went into effect on Thursday, after being adopted by the Puerto Rico Gaming Commission and the Puerto Rico Police Bureau.

“Jenniffer González’s administration must provide the country and the Legislature with complete and detailed information on where they will generate the funds for the tax relief,” said Rep. Héctor Ferrer Santiago, second from left, the Popular Democratic Party Minority Leader in the island House of Representatives. By THE STAR STAFF Popular Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers said Thursday that the 11.5% tax on solar panels and equipment was not a request from the Financial Over

Women’s Advocate Astrid Piñeiro Vázquez By THE STAR STAFF Women’s Advocate Astrid Piñeiro Vázquez announced a legal victory on Thursday after the Puerto Rico Supreme Court upheld the authority of the Office of the Women’s Advocate (OPM by its initials in Spanish) to investigate, oversee and impose administrative fines in cases involving labor rights violations and gender-based discrimination in both public agencies and private entities. The ruling, issued in case CC-2025-0009