Puerto Rico

Centros de salud alrededor de la isla denunciaron que las pruebas serológicas de COVID-19 de la marca Phamatech distribuidas por el Gobierno han dado problemas de validación al punto que algunas las han devuelto porque consideran que no sirven.

Latino Rebels Radio: May 4, 2020

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s government said Monday it has asked a federal control board to delay austerity measures for at least two years and warned it doesn’t have enough money to pay bondholders as it struggles with the costs of recent earthquakes, the COVID-19 crisis and the aftermath of hurricanes Irma and Maria.

For almost a decade, the government of Puerto Rico wasted the opportunity to put together an information network that would have provided real-time data to save lives during a pandemic, such as the one caused by COVID-19.

Silencing of the press is concerning at any point in the life of a nation, but it is alarming in the middle of a pandemic and with an administration that puts its political and economic life over the safety of its own people, and in an election year.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit near southern Puerto Rico on Saturday, briefly knocking out power and jolting many from their beds on an island where some people still remain in shelters from previous quakes earlier this year. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico is taking its first tentative steps in relaxing a nearly two-month lockdown for the coronavirus pandemic, while health experts warn that the U.S. territory is relying on faulty statistics and has not yet seen its peak of cases.

The U.S. territory’s governing body scrambles to gain the trust of its citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s government has failed to tap into millions of federal dollars set aside for the island as a growing number of unemployed parents struggle to feed their children in a U.S. territory where nearly 70% of public school students are poor.

El intercambio electrónico de récords médicos hubiera enviado datos en tiempo real al Gobierno y serviría como un mecanismo de vigilancia de amenazas como las pandemias.

They are rather owed payments that are long overdue.

The #MeToo movement arrived in Puerto Rico in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic like a sonic boom that has uncovered the dark side of the island’s machismo culture.

Puerto Rico doesn’t know the definition of a slow news day, much less a slow news week. 

Hospitals —which is where most people on the island die— have not been testing all suspected patients and none of the deceased.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Activists said Thursday that the two bodies found inside a charred car in southeast Puerto Rico were of transgender women, marking four such deaths in the past two months.

Puerto Rico governor Wanda Vázquez is handling the coronavirus crisis in the most Trumpian of ways—don’t pay attention to science and worry about your political survival instead. Despite an aggressive plan to install an island-wide lockdown that continues to this day and shows no sign of ending, Vázquez has become the latest in the line […]

Los municipios de Guánica, Peñuelas, Sabana Grande, Guayanilla y Yauco prácticamente quedaron sin escuelas debido a los cierres y los terremotos.

Latino Rebels Radio: April 19, 2020

Competence, expertise, openness and honesty are all critical to build trust and credibility during a crisis. Unfortunately, the Puerto Rican government has failed at every single one of these during the COVID-19 emergency.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Ricans are becoming increasingly disgruntled with how the government is handling the COVID-19 crisis as details emerge, including the death a 29-year-old man who became the U.S. territory’s youngest victim after his father said he wasn’t tested the first two times he sought help at an emergency room.

The number of confirmed positive COVID-19 cases that have been reported can reflect a double or even triple count. The Health Department confirmed it has no protocol in place to manage and inform the rapid test results.