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NotiCel is an online newspaper that covers news related to Puerto Rico. The newspaper is owned by entrepreneur and former baseball player Alfredo Escalera with base operations located in San Juan. [1] It was founded[ when? ] by Oscar Serrano and Omaya Sosa Pascual who also serve as Senior Content Director and Senior Managing Director, respectively. [lower-alpha 1]
Carlos Edwin Colón González Sr. is a Puerto Rican wrestling promoter and retired professional wrestler, better known as Carlitos Colón or simply Carlos Colón. He is, along with Victor Jovica, an owner of the Puerto Rican wrestling promotion World Wrestling Council (WWC), where he has held the WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship a record 26 times. He is the patriarch of the Colón wrestling family, composed of his sons Carlos and Eddie, daughter Stacy and nephew Orlando. In 2014, he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame and the following year into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame.
The San Juan Children's Choir is a children's choir from San Juan, Puerto Rico. The group was founded in 1966 by its director, Evy Lucío Córdova. The Choir usually accepts participants from the age of 6 and on. Auditions are held every year. Singers who participate at this institution leave at about age of 17 or 18.
José Guillermo Rodríguez Rodríguez is a Puerto Rican politician who served as the Mayor of the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico for 27 years until March 31, 2022 when he was suspended by the Special Independent Prosecutor Panel. He was born in Mayagüez on October 10, 1956. He is a member of the Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico.
Ramón Enrique Torres Guzmán was a Puerto Rican reporter, journalist, and news anchor. He served as the news anchor of Informe 79 from Mega TV Puerto Rico. He formerly served as the news anchor for the show Las Noticias from Univision Puerto Rico before the Network abruptly canceled it on October 17, 2014.
The 2012 Puerto Rico government transition process is the ongoing process in Puerto Rico regarding the government transition between the outgoing governorship of incumbent Governor Luis Fortuño and the incoming governorship of Alejandro García Padilla, governor-elect. The process is mandated and regulated by Law No. 197 of 2002 and started on November 13, 2012, three working days after the Puerto Rican general election of 2012 as the law requires, once García Padilla was preliminarily certified as Governor-elect by the State Elections Commission.
The Secretary of Corrections and Rehabilitation of Puerto Rico is responsible for structuring, developing, and coordinating the public policies of Puerto Rico over its correctional system and the rehabilitation of its adult and young population.
Carlos Rivas Quiñones is an attorney, banker and economist, and a former director of the Puerto Rico Office of Management and Budget. Rivas currently serves as Senior Vice President in the mortgage business at Banco Popular de Puerto Rico. Rivas was previously the executive director of the Puerto Rico Financing of Housing Authority, a principal at the private equity fund Advent Morro Equity Partners, and a strategic management consultant at McKinsey and Company. Rivas hold a juris doctor from Stanford University, where focused on securities, corporate and transactional law, and a graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics from Princeton University.
Javier D. Ferrer Fernández is a Cuban-American lawyer, financial advisor, businessman and politician who served as President and member of the board of the Puerto Rico Government Development Bank for Governor Alejandro García Padilla.
Javier Carrasquillo Cruz is a Puerto Rican politician and former mayor of Cidra. He earned a BA in criminal justice from the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico. Carrasquillo is affiliated with the New Progressive Party (PNP) and served as mayor from 2013 to 2021. After losing his seat in the 2020 elections, Carrasquillo went on to work under elected governor Pedro Pierluisi as Auxiliar Secretary of Government. In February 2022, he was also appointed as President of the Special Communities Perpetual Escrow, which oversees resources for low income communities in the island.
Manuel Natal Albelo is a former member of the 29th House of Representatives of Puerto Rico. Natal is currently affiliated with the Citizen's Victory Movement party after being previously affiliated with the Popular Democratic Party and a legal advisor for Charlie Hernández, another member of the House, before becoming a legislator. He was a member of the free association movement, colloquially known as soberanistas. Elected at the age of 27, Natal is one of the youngest legislators in the history of Puerto Rico and was the youngest legislator to serve at the time of his election. He was the Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana party's nominee in the 2020 San Juan mayoral election, which he lost to senator Miguel Romero of the New Progressive Party.
Roberto Pérez Santoni —better known as Papo Christian— is a community leader and philanthropist focused on marginalised communities. Papo began his efforts in 1967 when he organized a food drive for Biafra victims.
Stephanie del Valle Díaz is a Puerto Rican musician, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World 2016. She is the second woman from Puerto Rico to win the Miss World title, after Wilnelia Merced in 1975. She previously won Miss Mundo de Puerto Rico 2016.
Puerto Rico Highway 130 (PR-130) is the main north–south route within the municipality of Hatillo, Puerto Rico.
Iris Meléndez Vega was a lawyer and prosecutor from Puerto Rico.
A special election to elect shadow senators and shadow representatives from Puerto Rico was held on May 16, 2021. Voters chose two special delegates to the United States Senate and four special delegates to the United States House of Representatives. Their work is to demand that the US Congress respect and enforce the results of the 2020 status referendum, and admit Puerto Rico as the 51st state of the Union.
Luis Muñoz Marín Park is an urban park located in the Gobernador Piñero district of San Juan, close to Hato Rey, Río Piedras and Plaza Las Américas. The park was opened by the Puerto Rico Company of National Parks (CPNPR) and is currently administered by the municipality of San Juan. The Piedras River crosses the park from southeast to northwest, splitting it in two sections.
The 2024 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election will be held on November 5, 2024, to elect the governor of Puerto Rico, concurrently with the election of the Resident Commissioner, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the mayors of the 78 municipalities. Incumbent New Progressive Party Governor Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia ran for re-election to a second term in office, but lost the PNP primary to Resident Commissioner Jenniffer Gonzalez Colon.
Events in the year 2022 in Puerto Rico.
Norman Hopgood Dávila was born and raised in Puerto Rico. Former television sports broadcaster, writer and amateur baseball player. He is mostly remembered for his 50-year tenure as a radio and television broadcaster of horse racing in the island, from Hipodromo El Comandante in Carolina and Hipodromo Camarero in the northern Puerto Rican city of Canóvanas. Dávila's most famous phrase is "Y abren las compuertas, y estan en carrera!", which he pronounced at the start of each race that he covered over his 50 years on the Puerto Rican radio and television transmissions. Dávila, who is also a former basketball and professional boxing sportscaster, is a member of the Puerto Rican Horse Racing Hall of Fame.