Vieques

The death of a fellow Vieques resident struck by a speeding tourist on the island municipality, known as Isla Nena, shocked the community, particularly because of what residents perceive as a lack of urgency in handling the case.

A new wave of military activity revives the island’s long struggle with years of U.S. occupation and its human toll.

In the third edition of the Medioscopio project, the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo brought together 20 young residents of Vieques for workshops on media literacy, that involves the ability to access and analyze media messages as well as create, reflect and take action.

The government of Puerto Rico and the Department of Health suffered a judicial defeat in their attempt to stop the lawsuit for damages filed by Jaideliz Moreno Ventura’s family after the 13-year-old teenager’s death on the island municipality of Vieques, due to lack of medical services.

Educators have also not received the promised incentive for teaching classes on the island municipality.

Home runs are not pulled off in the batter’s box. But when you slam hit with the bat of resistance, far-reaching home runs are connected in the park of life. Good baseball is played on the island municipality of Vieques, known as la “Isla Nena.” And for many years they have also known here what […]

A year and four months after the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced a $39.5 million obligation to rebuild the Susana Centeno Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Vieques, which Hurricane María destroyed in 2017, the Infrastructure Financing Authority (AFI), the agency to which the Municipality delegated the task of managing the project earlier this year, […]