A testimony that was not discussed in court during the criminal trial against producer Sixto Jorge Díaz Colón is that of former governor Ricardo Rosselló Nevares, who gave a version to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that is different from the one offered in court by his former Secretary of Public Affairs, Anthony Maceira Zayas.
In Polk County, which is more than an hour from Tampa and three from Miami, overall rental income rose an average of 53.7% between 2017 and the first quarter of 2022, a jump from $924 to $1,421. By percentage, Polk was the county where rents increased the most during that five-year period in Florida.
Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism will expand the scope and impact of its work with the arrival of veteran journalist Wilma Maldonado Arrigoitía as the organization’s Editorial Director.
The Fiscal Control Board turned to the United States Supreme Court this Wednesday seeking the reversal of a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit that orders the delivery of the information.
The presence and access to firearms increases the risk and lethality in situations of sexist violence. At a time when a proposal to make access to weapons on the island even more flexible is on the table, we analyze the available data, from the experience of gender violence.
Four judges have ordered the handing over to the Center for Investigative Journalism of the annual reports submitted by the beneficiaries of Act 22, which is now part of the Incentives Code.
Claribel Millán played with the Puerto Rico National Softball Team during the 1970s and represented the island in the 1974 World Cup held in Connecticut. Her dedication to her national colors was in constant friction with what she says she was discriminated for — being a lesbian. She remembers that the federation leaders and directors of the sport that she practiced asked the players not to speak of or show any type of affection that would bring out their sexual orientation as lesbians. It was the beginning of the so-called golden age of women’s softball in Puerto Rico, when the National Team was directed by Alejandro “Junior” Cruz. “They called us to a meeting to talk about lesbianism.
A podcast, a show on Facebook Live and a Facebook page, as well as a photo exhibition, were the projects developed by a group of youngsters from Loíza presented during the closing of Medioscopio, a media literacy and citizen reporters initiative conducted in partnership between the Center for Investigative Journalism, the Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art and its “MAC en el Barrio” program, and ASPIRA Puerto Rico.
