Puerto Rico NewsNews on Puerto Rico continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.Puerto Rican Festival: celebration of authenticity and family- July 17, 2008 Bridgeport _ It's one of the largest Puerto Rican parades outside of New York City and it's a Bridgeport traditon that lasts all year long.http://www.topix.net/world/puerto-rico/2008/07/puerto-rican-festival-celebration-of-authen... Asteroid cruising past Earth turns out to be two- July 16, 2008 What at first was thought by scientists to be a good-sized asteroid currently hurtling past Earth has turned out to be two giant rocks in tandem.http://www.topix.net/world/puerto-rico/2008/07/asteroid-cruising-past-earth-turns-out-to-b... BOXING: Puerto Rico-Mexico rivalry packs a real punch - Los Angeles Times - 150708- July 15, 2008 Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico will take his colors and pride into the ring when he battles Mexico's Antonio Margarito for the world welterweight crown on July 26. Depending on who's doing the counting, there have been nearly five dozen world title fights between boxers from Mexico and Puerto Rico and most have been classic brawls. "In other countries people go crazy to see a soccer game between Spain and Italy, Italy and England," said boxing writer Gerardo Fernandez of the Puerto Rican daily...http://www.topix.net/world/puerto-rico/2008/07/boxing-puerto-rico-mexico-rivalry-packs-a-r... Animal activists criticize Puerto Rico's plans for long-awaited shelter - N.Y. Daily News - 140708- July 15, 2008 The Associated Press -- ARECIBO, Puerto Rico - The battle between animal activists and the Puerto Rican government over the treatment of pets and the apparent lack of shelters is intensifying again. This time the fight is delaying the long-awaited reopening of an animal shelter along the island's northern coast, a government official said Saturday. Activists say the government will try to run the US$200,000 shelter like an animal control agency. But local officials say they cannot offer free...http://www.topix.net/world/puerto-rico/2008/07/animal-activists-criticize-puerto-ricos-pla... Sisters reunite across miles, years - The Morning Call (Lehigh Valley) - 1307-08- July 14, 2008 This is a story about six girls who grew up with the same last name and the same father but who had never met. Until Saturday. Three of the Rentas girls were raised by their father's mother in Puerto Rico. Conceived with three different women before Manuel Rentas moved to New Jersey and married, the girls learned through relatives that he eventually had three more girls who were raised in Bethlehem by him and his wife. He died in 1969 and the widow and her daughters lost touch with the Puerto...http://www.topix.net/world/puerto-rico/2008/07/sisters-reunite-across-miles-years-the-morn... La Equivocada first winner for freshman sire Smarty Jones - Thoroughbred Times - 130708- July 14, 2008 La Equivocada earned a front-running five-length victory in the fifth race at Hipodromo Camarero in Puerto Rico on Friday and became the first winner for dual classic winner and champion Smarty Jones. Trained by Luis Adorno for owner S. Metal Stable, La Equivocada won the 5 12-furlong maiden special weight race in 1:04.77. The two-year-old filly is one of three winners from as many starters out of French Group 3-placed winner Dragonada, by Nureyev. Smarty Jones stands for $100,000 at Three...http://www.topix.net/world/puerto-rico/2008/07/la-equivocada-first-winner-for-freshman-sir... Puerto Rican vets shorted on benefits - Chicago Sun-Times - July 13, 2008- July 13, 2008 Military widows and veterans in Puerto Rico receive fewer health benefits than their counterparts in the United States, even though Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens and serve shoulder-to-shoulder with their countrymen in Iraq and Afghanistan. That means that, like all island spouses whose soldier husbands or wives were killed in the latest U.S. wars, the widow of Army Sgt. Jeffrey Michael Rada Morales would get less than fully paid health insurance -- simply for living in Puerto Rico. The...http://www.topix.net/world/puerto-rico/2008/07/puerto-rican-vets-shorted-on-benefits-chica... A lesson in using the right language -- baltimoresun.com - 120708- July 12, 2008 Photo: Gregory Kane But enough of that Obama story. I'll go with the other one: The good senator is taking heat for his suggestion that Americans need to learn Spanish or another language so that America can become a multilingual country. Frankly, I don't know what to make of Obama's critics on this one. America already is a bilingual English- and Spanish-speaking country, and has been for decades. Doubt it How long has Puerto Rico been a commonwealth of the United States People born in Puerto..http://www.topix.net/world/puerto-rico/2008/07/a-lesson-in-using-the-right-language-baltim... Which Way for Puerto Rico Ask McClintock. - Austin Chronicle - 110708- July 11, 2008 Puerto Rican Sen. Kenneth McClintock -- Photo by Richard Whittaker Democrats wonder how Sen. Barack Obama hopes to heal the divisions within the party caused by the bitter primaries. Puerto Rican Sen. Kenneth McClintock, the former co-chair of Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in the territory, argues that Obama's anti-war stance will ensure support in November from one Clinton-backing voting bloc: the Hispanic community. McClintock, outgoing president of the Senate of Puerto Rico,...http://www.topix.net/world/puerto-rico/2008/07/which-way-for-puerto-rico-ask-mcclintock-au... Woman Accused of Identity Theft- July 11, 2008 A Mayfield woman is in jail after she was caught stealing the identity of a Puerto Rico resident.http://www.topix.net/world/puerto-rico/2008/07/woman-accused-of-identity-theft?fromrss=1 |