San Juan, Puerto Rico News

JetBlue plans to announce a 25 percent expansion of its Caribbean service from Boston, according to Katie Johnston Chase at the Boston Globe .

Expectations proved to be misleading: From the moment the Around the Americas guys sailed into the harbor off Old San Juan, their experiences in Puerto Rico were nothing but fantastic.

Dec 03, 2009 -- Urban Mapping, Inc. , the leading provider of location-rich content for interactive applications, today announced updates to the company's market leading URBANWARE Neighborhoods database, which now includes over 100,600 neighborhoods in over 3,400 cities across the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Chalk it up to the bad economy. The Winky Wright/Grady Brewer fight scheduled for Dec.

Puerto Rico has such a bad history with research monkeys running amok, some residents are stunned that its territorial government has approved a plan to import and breed thousands of primates for sale to U.S. researchers.

Pedro Julio Serrano, an activist and the Communications Manager for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, scolds the crowd at Krash nightclub in San Juan, Puerto Rico in this recent video, after reportedly hearing negative remarks about transgender people while serving as a judge for a contest at the club.

A cruise ship based out of Miami temporarily lost power while returning home from a Southern Caribbean cruise, a Norwegian Cruise Line spokeswoman said.

The Norwegian Dawn cruise ship temporarily lost power off the coast of Puerto Rico.

SAN JUAN San Juan city commissioners accepted the resignation of City Manager Tony Garza Tuesday night.

CARIBBEAN DEAL Eat, drink and play for $900 for four people, four nights at Coconut Bay Resort & Spa on the Caribbean island of St.

Telemundo Communications Group, a leading producer of high-quality content for Hispanics in the U.S. and audiences around the world, Billboard, the world's most trusted music brand, and The Puerto Rico Tourism Company announced today that they reached an agreement to hold the 2010 Billboard Latin Music Awards Presented by State Farm in San Juan, ...

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board announced that a malfunctioning fuel monitoring system probably led to the massive explosion at a Caribbean Petroleum Corporation facility near San Juan, Puerto Rico.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - President Barack Obama is now confirming what many have long suspected: He will miss his January deadline to close the Guantanamo prison - partly because he cannot persuade other nations to take the detainees.

Textile Consultants Inc. and the Aspire Educational Institute recently announced that registration for their February 21, 2010, Advanced Water Damage Restoration Workshop in San Juan , Puerto Rico, is open, according to a press release .

Puerto Rico's Gov. Luis Fortuno revoked on Oct. 30, 2009 this reserve of mountain forests and beaches as part of a drive to bring jobs and investment for the US territory's struggling economy, as activists see a broader pattern of looser protection for the island's environment.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico a " A U.S. agency has overturned its 2003 research that said no health hazards were caused by decades of military exercises on Vieques, a bombing range-turned-tourist destination off Puerto Rico's east coast.The federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry said Friday it intends to 'modify' some of its earlier ...

It always seems that no matter how much Celebrity Scoop we write about in a given week, there's also lots more that we didn't have time to get to.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Lower-than-feared sea temperatures this summer gave a break to fragile coral reefs across the Caribbean and the central Gulf of Mexico that were damaged in recent years, scientists said Thursday.

Puerto Rico halts government layoffs SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Almost half of the 15,000 government employees scheduled to be laid off this week because of a budget deficit will keep their jobs until next year, Puerto Rican officials said Tuesday.

Police say a U.S. tourist who was pretending to be surfing on the hood of a friend's moving car was killed when he fell and broke his neck in a popular Puerto Rican beach town.