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Miami (AFP) - A former girlfriend of Bad Bunny has filed a $40 million lawsuit against the Puerto Rican megastar, alleging he used a recording of her voice in several songs without permission. Carliz De La Cruz Hernandez, who dated Bad Bunny from 2011 to 2016, filed the lawsuit at a Puerto Rican court in San Juan earlier this month, though the outlet Noticel first reported it just this week. In 2015, before Bad Bunny had skyrocketed to global fame, she recorded a voice note for him saying the phrase "Bad Bunny, baby," court documents say. She alleges that the singer, born Benito Martinez Ocasi...
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Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands are being hit with another massive hurricane years after the devastation left by Hurricane Maria. This storm, named Hurricane Fiona, first touched down in Southwest Puerto Rico on Sunday, causing a blackout on the whole island as well as extremely destructive flooding and mudslides. As of Monday, the huge storm Fiona is now over both the Dominican Republic and parts of Puerto Rico, and could leave as much as 30 inches of rainfall on the island before it lets up. Over one million residents of the two islands are now without drinking water. Power outages a...
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The expanded child tax credit expired in December, but those who didn’t receive the monthly payment last year can claim the full amount this year. A nonprofit tech organization has now made its user-friendly sign-up tool available to Puerto Ricans to make it easier for them to claim their child stimulus checks. How Puerto Ricans Can Claim Their Child Stimulus CheckQ2 2022 hedge fund letters, conferences and more The tool's launch follows a recent IRS announcement for Puerto Ricans. In May, the IRS stated that most Puerto Ricans would be able to claim their CTC with a simple return, even if the...
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Miami (AFP) - At least 11 people died after a boat believed to be carrying dozens of migrants capsized off the coast of Puerto Rico, with rescue efforts set to continue through the night, the US Coast Guard said on Thursday. "As of 6 PM Thursday (2200 GMT), responding partner agency units have rescued 31 survivors, 11 female and 20 male. 11 deceased have been recovered," the Coast Guard said in a tweet. A spokesperson for US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) told AFP that the shipwreck occurred 10 nautical miles (19 kilometers) north of Desecheo Island, an uninhabited US territory between Pu...
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Washington (AFP) - Most people in Puerto Rico woke up Thursday with no electricity after a blackout hit the entire US island territory in the Caribbean. The Luma electric company said the outage Wednesday evening may have been caused by a failed circuit breaker at a power plant. It said the precise cause was not yet known. The specialized website poweroutage.us said that as of 0320 GMT Thursday, all 3.2 million residents of the island were without electricity. "Given the massive size and scope of the outage, power restoration could extend well into Thursday and Friday for some areas," Luna sai...
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Miami (AFP) - US Coast Guard authorities searched waters off Puerto Rico Friday after a boat carrying more than 20 people capsized in the second migrant smuggling accident in a week. The Coast Guard said it received a call around 1:00 am (0500 GMT) reporting people in the water off the northwest coast of the US territory in the Caribbean. They had been aboard a makeshift vessel carrying out a suspected human trafficking trip to Puerto Rico, the Coast Guard said in a statement. The boat flipped over about 70 meters (yards) off a beach in the town of Isabela. The caller said multiple people were...
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San Juan (Puerto Rico) (AFP) - Puerto Rican authorities hastily reinstalled a statue of Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon that was toppled earlier Monday in the capital San Juan, just hours before a visit to the Caribbean island by Spain's King Felipe VI. "Some individuals approached the statue," located in a square in the historic center of San Juan, and "caused damage," according to a police report quoted by local media. The capital's mayor, Miguel Romero, criticized the incident as an "act of vandalism" in remarks to news outlet El Nuevo Dia, but sought to downplay the significance of the...
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Miami (AFP) - A federal judge on Tuesday approved a plan to restructure Puerto Rico's public debt, which will allow the US territory to end the bankruptcy process it declared almost five years ago. Judge Laura Taylor Swain gave her approval to the fiscal adjustment project approved by the island's authorities last October. The decision will reduce the territory's debt by nearly 80 percent and save it more than $50 billion in debt service payments, the federal board that has overseen Puerto Rico's accounts since 2016 said on Twitter. According to the body's director, Natalie Jaresko, the plan ...
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San Juan (AFP) - Puerto Rico has an underfunded health care system, high levels of poverty and its infrastructure remains devastated by a major hurricane that swept through the island in 2017. So how is the US territory leading the rest of the country in Covid vaccinations? Experts credit the surprising success to two major factors: a sense of solidarity forged from past brushes with disasters, and a public health response untainted by political polarization seen on the mainland. No fewer than 74 percent of the island's 3.2 million people are now fully vaccinated -- well above the US total of ...
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Miami (AFP) - A fire at an electrical substation left hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans in the dark on Thursday, shortly after the power company reported a cyberattack that it did not immediately link to the blaze. Luma Energy confirmed the fire at a facility in the capital San Juan two hours after saying it had been targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that stopped customers from accessing their accounts. "The fire caused significant blackouts across the island," the company said on Facebook. Luma Energy is a new utility on the Caribbean island, starting operations ...
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