All posts tagged "Lead Stories"

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  García Padilla Sends House Speaker Ryan a Letter on Release of Financial Statements

  SAN JUAN – Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro García Padilla wrote a letter Monday to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis.), noting the recent release of a draft of the commonwealth’s financial statements for fiscal 2014, urging once...

  • Posted February 22, 2016
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  Clinton Edges Out Sanders to Win Nevada Caucuses

  LAS VEGAS – Hillary Clinton seized the momentum in the fierce fight for the Democratic presidential nomination, turning back a challenge from Bernie Sanders in Nevada’s caucuses on Saturday and pushing toward even friendlier primaries in the...

  • Posted February 21, 2016
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  Trump Wins Big in South Carolina, Clinton Wins Nevada

  COLUMBIA, S.C. – Donald Trump barreled to victory in South Carolina’s Republican primary Saturday, deepening his hold on the GOP presidential field as the race headed into the South. “Let’s put this thing away,” he shouted to...

  • Posted February 21, 2016
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  Census: 609,000 People Moved Stateside Since 2006

  SAN JUAN – The Census Information Center (CIC) of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) in Cayey reported Friday that net migration from Puerto Rico to the United States mainland has been of about 366,000 people during...

  • Posted February 19, 2016
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  García Padilla Touts P.R.’s Tourism as Aviation Industry’s Routes Americas Kicks Off

  SAN JUAN – During the kickoff of the ninth edition of Routes Americas, an air-service-development forum being held until Friday at the Puerto Rico Convention Center, Gov. Alejandro García Padilla noted some of the positive developments in...

  • Posted February 17, 2016
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  Puerto Rico Gov’t Evaluates Debt Moratorium, Receivership Options

  SAN JUAN — Although it corresponds to fiscal year 2014, which ended June 30, 2014, the recently released draft of the commonwealth’s financial report also includes its fair share of discussion over Puerto Rico’s worsening fiscal situation...

  • Posted February 17, 2016
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  Justice Antonin Scalia, Influential Conservative, Dead at 79

  WASHINGTON – Antonin Scalia, the influential conservative and most provocative member of the Supreme Court, has died, leaving the high court without its conservative majority and setting up an ideological confrontation over his successor in the maelstrom...

  • Posted February 14, 2016
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  GOP Candidates Joust Over Foreign Policy, Immigration

  GREENVILLE, S.C. – Republican presidential candidates jousted over immigration and foreign policy in a raucous debate that was shaken by the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia hours before they took the stage. Scalia’s death thrust...

  • Posted February 14, 2016
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  Giuliani Bullish about Puerto Rico’s Road to Recovery

  SAN JUAN – Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was on hand in Puerto Rico to deliver a speech at the 2016 Puerto Rico Investment Summit on Friday, where he talked mostly about the strategies he...

  • Posted February 12, 2016
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  Yellen: Too Early to Determine Impact of Global Developments

  WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen cautioned Thursday that global economic pressures pose risks to the U.S. economy but said it’s too soon to know whether those risks are severe enough to alter the Fed’s interest-rate...

  • Posted February 11, 2016