Puerto Rico News

PEOPLE'S Democratic Party youth candidate Jone Baravilala Rasi wants to help address the issue of unemployment among young people in the country.

Puerto Rico's culture is as rich as its history. For hundreds of years, the Caribbean island has experienced an influx of change, as different cultures and attitudes combine to create a unique and flavorful identity.

This June 4, 2014 photo shows a $90 U.S. dollar FIFA ticket for the Spain vs. Chile World Cup game, bought by a fan on Stubhub.com, a website that connects buyers and sellers, for $775 U.S. dollars, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

This June 4, 2014 photo shows a $90 U.S. dollar FIFA ticket for the Spain vs. Chile World Cup game, bought by a fan on Stubhub.com, a website that connects buyers and sellers, for $775 U.S. dollars, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

People's Democratic Party leader Felix Anthony, left, shakes hands with Vijay Singh during a party meeting in Lautoka.

San Juan, Puerto Rico a A night at the theater - or an afternoon of baseball - will now take a bigger chunk of cash from the pockets of Puerto Rico's elderly.

The World Boxing Organization headed by its president Francisco 'Paco' Valcarcel is launching a commendable program in the Philippines and Mexico to provide financial assistance for scholarships, clothes and boxing equipment to five young promising fighters chosen by a panel of journalists in each of the two countries.

Two potentially habitable planets in the Gliese 581 system are just false signals arising out of starstuff, a new study said.

This June 4, 2014 photo shows a $90 U.S. dollar FIFA ticket for the Spain vs. Chile World Cup game, bought by a fan on Stubhub.com, a website that connects buyers and sellers, for $775 U.S. dollars, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Hundreds of employees of Puerto Rican government agencies and state-owned enterprises took to the streets of San Juan on Wednesday to protest pay and benefit cuts.

A shot from San Juan, Puerto Rico's El Morro fortress. This is a small staircase connecting the lower ramparts to the upper; almost hidden out of the way, and not one of the more popular paths up the fort, we had it to ourselves.

In this Aug. 16, 2008 file photo, a parrotfish is shown swimming over a dead coral reef in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary near Key West, Fla.

Puerto Rico's main international airport is scheduled to reopen two terminals by next year as part of a nearly $200 million renovation and security upgrade, officials said Tuesday.

Astronomers have found the most Earth-like planet yet, and it's only 16 light years away, reports Space.com .

The township launched a pilot program in Bayville back in 2012 in several small areas of Bayville.

WITH its first batch of candidates soon to be announced, the People's Democratic Party says if a candidate is chosen from the public sector, they will be named closer to the September 17 election.

The 305-meter telescope at Arecibo is just one of a collection that SETI will use to search nearby stars for electronic signals that could indicate intelligent life.

Undefeated John Karl Sosa will join his Puerto Rican countrymen Juan Manuel "Juanma" Lopez and Jonathan Oquendo on Saturday, July 12, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada - as part of the undercard to the Showtime Pay-Per-View which features the junior middleweight main event between Saul "Canelo" Alvarez of Mexico and Erislandy Lara of Cuba.

In this Friday morning June 27, 2014 photo provided bt GC Media, Victor Mooney, 48, of Flushing, Queens, New York lays in his hospital bed after arriving in Saint-Martin Friday.

A vehicle travel on Ygnacio Valley Road next to a sound wall in Walnut Creek, Calif., on Thursday, June 26, 2014.