Costa Sur 5 said possible to go back online Monday night By THE STAR STAFF After a number of power outages took place over the weekend, Energy Czar Josué Colón Ortiz said Monday that AES Unit 1 -- which contributes 250 megawatts -- is projected to come back online sometime between this afternoon and evening. “AES Unit 1 is currently out of service. We held a meeting with the AES general manager this morning; they are finishing up the work,” Colón Ortiz said at a press confere

Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández Rivera By THE STAR STAFF Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández Rivera is calling on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to immediately accelerate the release of roughly $1.7 billion in federal funds earmarked for the island’s electrical grid recovery, warning that prolonged delays are undermining dozens of generation projects and prolonging the island’s energy instability. In a letter sent Monday to HUD Se

The second University of Puerto Rico Golf Tournament, to be held on Thursday, Sept. 24, is a fundraiser for the scholarship program and supporting students with financial need. (fundacionupr.org) By THE STAR STAFF The University of Puerto Rico (UPR) will hold its second Golf Tournament on Thursday, Sept. 24, with the purpose of raising funds for the scholarship program and supporting students with financial need from its 11 campuses and units. The tournament will be held at t

Robin Ventura of the New York Mets hitting a ball out of the park (officially called a game-winning single) in the 15th inning to notch Game 5 of the National League Championship Series against the Atlanta Braves, 4-3, on Oct. 17, 1999. (G. Paul Burnett/The New York Times) By TYLER KEPNER In the summer of 2001, a month or two before everything changed, Robin Ventura played golf with a man named Chris Quackenbush. Soon after, Quackenbush went to a game to see his friend Bobby

Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, speaks at a conference in Manhattan on Dec. 3, 2025. Amodei called for a global slowdown of artificial intelligence development in a 3,800-word essay on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026, just days after one of the company’s employees quit over concerns about the safety of the technology. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times) By MIKE ISAAC Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, called for a global

The remnants of a school bag in Betrawati, Nepal, where some 200 students of one school lost their lives in the flooding disaster, Sept. 4, 2026. (Lam Yik Fei/The New York Times) By MUJIB MASHAL and BINOD GHIMIRE Taking a break from the noisy work of leading a school of more than 500 students, Madhav Lamichhane would ride his motorbike down to the riverside Betrawati Bazaar every week. The principal skipped the busy shops around the town’s clock tower, preferring a quiet mome

A growing consumer push to buy Canadian and boycott U.S. products is reshaping supermarket shelves in Canada, forcing grocers to improve country-of-origin labeling and secure new sources of supply. In Ontario, the president of independent grocer Vince’s Market, Giancarlo Trimarchi, turned to Facebook to show customers that most ​produce on the shelves of his stores is Canadian after receiving angry emails and comments about the grocer stocking U.S. produce. A bitter trade war

The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture has announced the program for the 56th International Theater Festival, an edition dedicated to actor, mime, director and educator Rafael Fuentes, at left. By THE STAR STAFF The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (ICP) has unveiled the program for the 56th International Theater Festival, an edition dedicated to actor, mime, director and educator Rafael Fuentes. ICP Executive Director Melissa Santana said the festival reaffirms the importanc

POR EL STAR STAFF SAN JUAN – El secretario del Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA), Waldemar Quiles, informó que en apenas siete meses (1 enero hasta el 31 de julio) de este año la Secretaría Auxiliar de Planificación y Permisos ha tramitado unas 23 certificaciones de deslinde, cifra que supera la alcanzada en todo el 2025, de unos 18. El Secretario del DRNA también destacó que en estos momentos, existen unos 30 casos de deslinde asignados a un grupo de ag