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As Puerto Rico prepares to host the World Baseball Classic in March 2026, many communities across the archipelago are still waiting for the parks where children and teenagers play the sport to be brought back into shape.

Eight years after the hurricane, Gov. Jenniffer González’s administration insists on maintaining the same emergency protocol for electricity-dependent patients that failed under the past three administrations.

The island’s Department of Education is losing students, in part, due to a cycle of constant school relocations, deteriorating facilities, and shortened schedules from noon to 5 p.m., which are stopgap measures that fail to address the core problem: an unrepaired infrastructure, despite the availability of funds.

The outlook is grim. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has announced that its secretary will now personally review any grant or contract award exceeding $100,000 before the funds can be committed, the agency told the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo.

The fund expired in June. Originally approved by the Legislature in 2020 to provide municipalities with liquidity, the reserve ultimately failed to deliver. Jenniffer González now plans to redirect it toward energy projects that could benefit “other entities,” not just government agencies.

Two Senate bills could hinder timely access to scientific information and data crucial for public health decisions and emergency responses.

Students from Lares, Jayuya, and Adjuntas received training on how to critically consume media and create their own stories.

Amid a web of conflicts, Eduardo Soria Rivera — who has led Puerto Rico’s main recovery office since January — also chairs the Governing Board of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority.

Verdict: True, but...

COR3, the agency in charge of recovery in Puerto Rico, holds FEMA responsible for excluding that multi-million-dollar expense because of the methodology it used to estimate the damage to the electrical system after Hurricanes Irma and María.

San Juan, PR – The Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI, in Spanish) today sued the Puerto Rico Land Authority (ATPR, in Spanish) for ignoring a request for access to public information about the composition and minutes of its Governing Board.    Since January 23, 2024, journalist and founder of Bonita Radio, Carmen Enid Acevedo, who received […]

The Center for Investigative Journalism filed a lawsuit against Department of Natural and Environmental Resources Secretary Anaís Rodríguez Vega, to make her comply with her duty to provide public information on files related to three environmental complaints.

Paradiso College Preparatory Real Estate Two acknowledged that the permit it obtained to operate that charter school is invalid.

The US Army Corps of Engineers clings to the canalization alternative because it is the least expensive way to address the problem.

In the absence of protection and a safe home, and the discrimination aggravated by factors such as religious ideologies, the Waves Ahead organization is developing housing projects aimed at these populations while bills to amend local laws are in limbo.

With bomba music playing and a photo exhibition, 20 youngsters from the southern regions towns of Arroyo, Patillas, Guayama, Salinas and Santa Isabel celebrated the closing of the second edition of Medioscopio, the media literacy and development project for citizen reporters promoted by the Center for Investigative Journalism.