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Energy czar: Gov’t owes nothing to LUMA or Genera
By THE STAR STAFF
Energy Czar Josué Colón Ortiz insisted on Sunday that the island government owes no money to private energy system operators LUMA Energy and Genera in response to claims by Genera that it is owed over $230 million in fuel fees.
“The government of Puerto Rico does not owe any amount of money to either private operator LUMA or to private operator Genera,” Colón Ortiz said at a news conference in La Fortaleza. “All payment of fees established in the contracts have been made faithfully. The letter made public is related to the contractual process of replenishing the service accounts, but the reality is that the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority service accounts are filled with the proceeds from the work of the two operators because the truth is that PREPA is no longer in charge of producing, transmitting or distributing energy and billing clients.”
Genera PR warned PREPA in a letter that it has incurred a contractual “breach event” by delaying the transfer of funds to the fuel purchase account in April without, supposedly, taking actions to solve the deficiency in the stipulated time.
Although Thursday’s letter – which was published in another media outlet – does not indicate whether Genera PR would activate contractual remedies in situations of noncompliance – which can escalate to cancellation with just cause – the company stressed that it “expressly reserves all its rights, claims and remedies under the OMA [operation and maintenance agreement] under applicable law and principles of equity. Nothing in this letter should be construed as a waiver of those rights and remedies.”
Colón Ortiz said the way the contract is established is that PREPA delegated to the private operators the work it used to do. PREPA’s income comes from the sale of energy and the
utility has no other income. Genera PR and LUMA Energy are supposed to charge the public for the energy provided.
“Our office wants all operations to continue so service is not interrupted. The two operators must fulfill their obligations and if that happens then the service accounts will be replenished,” the energy czar said. “That is a contractual process and it is not true that the government owes them money as part of the fees.”
He said PREPA and the private operators are continually engaged in a conciliation of the energy produced and paid to ensure the income from the sale is deposited in the PREPA accounts, which are the accounts used to pay the private operators.
Asked why the accounts did not have the money, Colón Ortiz said “the way I see it is that service must be continuous. So, it is important for us to have the capacity for demand.”
On Sunday, there was sufficient energy demand as PREPA had 1,300 megawatts in reserve.
municipal legislators active in ’structural refoundation’
By THE STAR STAFF
Aguada Mayor Christian Cortés Feliciano, appointed by Popular Democratic Party (PDP) President Pablo José Hernández Rivera as the party’s “structural refoundation engineer,” held a meeting over the weekend with majority and minority municipal legislators at party headquarters in Puerta de Tierra.
“As part of the refoundation work, we have met with different sectors of the party,” Cortés Feliciano noted on Saturday. “We began with young people in Caguas, with public servants in Ponce, with women in Barceloneta, and today we are doing the same with municipal legislators. We discussed the important work they do in their municipalities and their suggestions for further transformation of the party. The mission is to consolidate the PDP as the largest electoral force in the country, capable of winning elections and go-
verning responsibly.”
Hernández Rivera said “Christian Cortés is an exemplary public servant, with the ideal combination of experience in municipal administration and knowledge in law and engineering.”
“His leadership will be key to re-establishing the PDP’s structure and ensuring that the party is aligned with the needs of the people and the challenges of the future,” the party president added.
One of the participants, Niavelys Castro, stated that “we in the PDP are enjoying how productive this process of reflection and transformation is, and the municipal legislators are collaborating in a serious process to strengthen municipal administrations.”
As part of his assignment, Cortés is responsible for presenting a draft of new regulations reflecting the structural refoundation of the PDP by Sept. 30 of this year.
Energy Czar Josué Colón Ortiz
San Germán mayor thanks his mother, and father, for the gift of life
By THE STAR STAFF
On Sunday, San Germán Mayor Virgilio Olivera Olivera gave Mother’s Day thanks, “from the bottom of my heart, to my beloved mother, Mrs. Margarita Olivera, as well as my beloved father, Virgilio Olivera, for having rescued me from the clutches of death.”
Sitting reflectively next to his parents, the mayor used the occasion to open his heart and share part of his life story.
“This day is extremely emotional and is full of moments that reach the center of the heart, where the most intimate emotions meet,” he said. “God made possible what for science turned out to be very difficult or impossible. God had a purpose for me. … We celebrate life and the miracle of existing.”
“We remember that sad moment when the doctors gave Virgilio ‘only 24 hours to live’ at the Mayagüez Medical Center,” the mayor’s mother recalled. “Those were extremely difficult days, filled with suffering, in which we felt our hearts ripped apart with our first hope.
“Even though he was so young, I still can’t get over all that pain,” she added. “His birth was extremely complicated, so difficult. … I was in labor for 24 hours, and because of that, the complications began.”
A tearful Don Virgilio remembered, meanwhile, that “Virgilio was born with perforated lungs and swallowed some of the amniotic fluid.”
“They told us: ‘If he survives 24 hours, your son is a true miracle of life,’” he said. “He was in an incubator, full of wires and impressive machines.”
After enduring that crisis and endless weekly follow-up appointments, Doña Margarita spent a year dressed in her habit, keeping Our Lady of the Miraculous Virgin very present. Young Virgilio grew strong and was the first of the couple’s three children, with Jesús and Adrián to follow.
Lawmakers raise concerns over dangers of CBD products
By THE STAR STAFF
The Department of Consumer Affairs will oversee the sale of cannabidiol (CBD) products and medical cannabis-related items in businesses that are not licensed as dispensaries under Act 42-2017, pending the enactment of relevant legislation.
The House Health Committee is currently evaluating House Bill 223, authored by Rep. Gabriel Rodríguez Aguiló. The measure seeks to address concerns regarding the unrestricted sale of CBD products in gas stations, grocery stores and smoke shops, many of which lack quality controls and do not provide clear consumer warnings about their composition.
“We are allowing the free sale of substances that contain additives which alter their natural state,” Health Committee Chairman Gabriel Rodríguez Aguiló stated at a hearing last week. “These products often end up in the hands of minors, posing a real risk to public health. We cannot permit their sale without any regulation.”
Reps. Adriana Gutiérrez Colón of the Puerto Rican Independence Party, Héctor Ferrer Santiago of the Popular Democratic Party, and Wanda del Valle Correa of the New
Progressive Party attended the hearing and emphasized the need to review the current legal framework. They highlighted the importance of establishing clear responsibilities among agencies to ensure consumer safety.
During the hearing, the Agriculture Department provided a detailed technical analysis, warning of potential conflicts with federal laws and the possibility of overlapping functions between agencies. However, they supported the measure with suggested amendments.
“From our institutional agenda, we support any initiative that promotes food safety and the responsible regulation of products that may affect consumer health,” Agriculture
Secretary Josué E. Rivera Castro said.
Additionally, representatives from the Office of Hemp Licensing and Inspection said they have tested a variety of products on the market, and found that 677 of them met established standards.
In response to questions from Rodríguez Aguiló, a spokesperson for the Puerto Rico Police acknowledged the urgency of addressing the issue through an interagency approach.
“These products are often consumed by minors or young people who are unaware of their chemical compounds and side effects,” he said. “We must intervene before the problem escalates.”
Attorney José Antonio Maes Aponte, managing member of Van Den Berg Law & Consulting, supported the bill’s approval and warned about the proliferation of products containing highly intoxicating synthetic cannabinoids such as Delta 8 and THCA, which are currently sold without controls, without laboratory testing, and in clear violation of the Controlled Substances Act.
The House Health Committee will continue to analyze the measure in conjunction with relevant agencies to develop a comprehensive and protective legal framework.
By THE STAR STAFF
SSoto introduced Senate Resolution 173 last week, which mandates the Committee on Education, Arts, and Culture to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the methods, approaches, and resources used to teach reading in grades one through three in Puerto Rico’s public schools. The resolution comes in response to growing concerns about the reading skills gap among primary school students, exacerbated by educational disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to academic difficulties, the legislation addresses the socio-emotional impact on children’s readiness to learn.
“Mastering reading from an early age is key to academic
success in all subjects,” Pérez Soto said. “This resolution seeks to identify what we’re doing well, where we’re failing, and how we can improve.”
The research under the resolution will evaluate curricula, methodologies, teaching materials, teacher training, and performance levels, as well as consider the inclusion of special education students and the integration of complementary subjects.
The aforementioned committee will have the power to subpoena Department of Education officials, specialists, teachers, parents and other relevant stakeholders. It must submit a report with its findings and recommendations to the Senate within 180 days of the measure’s approval.
With the resolution, the Senate reaffirms its commitment to
strengthening education from the ground up and providing all students with the tools necessary to reach their full potential.
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Local officials brace for loss of disaster preparedness funding
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, on Feb. 21, 2025. Significant funding for disaster preparedness work, about $735 million in total, comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In President Donald Trump’s proposed budget, the money has been zeroed out. (Alyssa Pointer/The New York Times)
By APOORVA MANDAVILLI
St. Louis has been battered by two tornadoes in the past two months. A fire shut down a new nursing home last month in Enterprise, Alabama, forcing residents to evacuate. Cleveland grappled with a power outage while inundated with visitors for the NCAA women’s basketball Final Four.
In each case, local health officials played a key role in containing the fallout, assisting hospitals, finding new homes for displaced residents, and coordinating efforts with fire, police and other city departments.
The funding for this work, about $735 million in total, comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In President Donald Trump’s proposed budget, the money has been zeroed out.
The proposed cut has left health officials
increasingly alarmed, particularly since it followed $12 billion in cuts to state and local health departments in March. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have sued to prevent the reductions.
“Man-made and natural disasters don’t depend on federal funding, but a response to save lives does,” said Dr. Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis, health director for St. Louis. (Davis has resigned but is staying on until the city finds a replacement.)
The city is coping with huge sinkholes, routinely faces floods, and sits on a fault line that puts it at risk of earthquakes. “We really rely heavily on this funding,” Davis said. Without it, “the entire population of St. Louis and its visitors would be left vulnerable.”
The Department of Health and Human Services directed queries about the proposed budget to the Office of Management
and Budget, which did not respond to a request for comment.
The funds are funneled to local health departments through the Public Health Emergency Preparedness cooperative agreement. The program was created after the 9/11 attacks to help the nation prepare for biological threats and other emergencies.
The money helps officials manage the public health impacts of natural and manmade disasters and contain outbreaks of infectious diseases. It also pays the salaries of experienced officials who help prepare for, and mitigate, damage to public health.
The amounts vary by jurisdiction. St. Louis and Cleveland each receive about $250,000, which covers the salaries of three staff members. Dallas, in contrast, receives nearly $2 million, paying the salaries of 17 employees.
“Especially at the local level, you don’t have a lot of buffers with these funds,” said Dr. Philip Huang, director of Dallas County Health and Human Services in Texas.
If the funds disappear, even big cities like Dallas will be hobbled during emergencies. “The smaller the health department, the bigger the impact is likely to be,” he said.
Davis said her department receives less than 1% of the St. Louis city budget. If public health emergency funds from the CDC were to be cut, as the budget now proposes, neither Missouri nor the city is likely to make up the shortfall, she said.
“Those people would lose their jobs immediately,” Davis said of the employees funded by the grant.
In Alabama, emergency preparedness programs are funded entirely through federal grants. Tornadoes, hurricanes and ice in the wintertime can all wreak havoc, necessitating the intervention of health officials.
“We unfortunately get quite a bit of practice with those activities because they’re not all that uncommon,” said Dr. Scott Harris, state health officer at the Alabama Department of Public Health.
In many jurisdictions, officials relied on hundreds of volunteers to help with vaccinations against COVID and mpox. But they still needed paid staff to coordinate those activities and train the volunteers, Dr. Huang said.
“You can’t just have everyone show up and say, ‘Yeah, I’m a doctor,’” he said. City
officials check volunteer’s credentials, train them and mobilize them for emergencies as needed.
In Cleveland, health officials charged with preparedness have on many occasions received calls in the middle of night from hospitals with possible cases of anthrax or some other infectious threat.
“This is an invisible workforce because they’re preparing for the worst case scenarios — which often don’t happen, thank goodness,” said Dr. David Margolius, director of public health for Cleveland. “But it’s better to be prepared than be caught flat-footed.”
Some officials have worried since the election that the Trump administration might not renew the programs when they ended. But they said they were unprepared for the money to be abruptly cut off, as other CDC funding streams have been.
If Congress enacts the cuts, “we would have to scramble to figure out a situation for them,” he said, referring to the employees funded by the program. “It’s just completely unfair to these teams and to residents in Cleveland who count on these services.”
Tufts student returns to Massachusetts after 6 weeks in immigration detention
By VIMAL PATEL, ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS and MAYA SHWAYDER
Rumeysa Ozturk returned to Massachusetts on Saturday evening, eyes welling with joy and gratitude at the end of her six-week odyssey in federal custody, a case that stirred outrage over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
A flight carrying Ozturk, a Turkish citizen studying at Tufts University on a student visa, touched down at Boston Logan International Airport one day after a federal judge in Vermont ordered that she be immediately released from a detention facility in Louisiana.
Speaking in a room at the airport, she flashed smiles and looked happy and relaxed, but also became visibly emotional at times. Ozturk thanked supporters for their kindness and expressed love for the country that imprisoned her and is still trying to deport her.
“America is the greatest democracy in the world,” she said, adding, “I have faith in the American system of justice.”
Ozturk, a fifth-year doctoral student, was among more than 1,000 international students whose visas were canceled by the federal government and who have faced deportation. The moves came as the Trump administration escalated its attack on higher education, saying its goal was to root out antisemitism.
Ozturk had written an opinion piece in the student newspaper criticizing the university’s response to pro-Palestinian demands. Her supporters denied that she was antisemitic, and said that she was detained in retaliation for her speech in violation of the First Amendment.
On Saturday, her friends and former professors bounced between elation at her release and pain that Ozturk, a Fulbright scholar who specializes in children’s media and who is known as a studious rule follower, was detained in the first place.
Gulay Kaplan, who has known Ozturk for a decade, drove 11 hours to see her at the airport, and was excited and emotional. When she finally saw her, she said all she
drew condemnation from students, college leaders and immigration advocates nationwide. She was walking down a sidewalk in Somerville, Massachusetts, when she was surrounded by armed immigration agents and whisked into a van. She was driven to New Hampshire, and then to Vermont, and then flown to a federal detention facility in Louisiana.
While being detained, Ozturk testified that she experienced increasingly severe asthma attacks, the first being on the plane to Louisiana. When she sought treatment, she said, the detention center’s medical staff responded condescendingly. She said she had been confined with 23 other women in a space meant for 14 people.
On Saturday, Ozturk thanked friends who helped her through the experience. Some read books to her over the phone and sent many letters of support. She said an adviser sent Ozturk’s dissertation proposal to the detention facility.
“So much love,” Ozturk said. She also expressed concern for those immigrants who are still held at the facility. “Please don’t forget about all the wonderful women” there, she said.
could do was cry.
Kaplan said she was shocked at what Ozturk had to endure, describing her friend as kind and softhearted, adding, “She doesn’t have the bone to hate anyone.” Kaplan said it had left her and her other friends scared. If this could happen to Ozturk, she said, “this could happen to any one of us for saying anything.”
On Friday, Judge William Sessions of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont said Ozturk’s detention would potentially chill “the speech of the millions and millions of individuals in this country who are not citizens.”
Sessions, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, also said the government, which has accused Ozturk of engaging “in activities in support of Hamas,” had not introduced any evidence other than the pro-Palestinian opinion essay that Ozturk co-authored.
A message left for the Department of Homeland Security was not immediately returned. In response to an earlier development in Ozturk’s case this past week, a spokesperson said that “a visa is a privilege, not a right” and that the department would “continue to fight for the arrest, detention and removal of aliens who have no right to be in this country.”
In late April, the Trump administration abruptly restored the ability of thousands of international students to study in the country legally, though it maintained that their legal status could still be terminated in the future. Despite that decision, Ozturk had remained in custody until Friday.
“Rumeysa, my sister — our sister — we welcome you home with open arms,” said Rep. Ayanna Pressley at the airport. She was joined by Sen. Edward Markey in greeting Ozturk. “We never forgot about you. You are loved, you are seen, and we will not rest until you are fully exonerated, your visa is restored and you are free to continue your studies and your service to our community.”
The arrest of Ozturk in March was captured on surveillance footage and
Reyyan Bilge, a psychology professor at Northeastern, knew Ozturk when she was an undergraduate in Turkey, and described an emotional roller-coaster over the past six weeks, starting with her disbelief that her former student had been arrested. She said Ozturk was “one of the best students I’ve ever had.” Bilge followed every development in the case, logging into each court hearing, and received another shock, this time joyful, at Friday’s hearing.
“You hear the words that you’ve been waiting to hear for a really long time,” she said in a phone interview. “But at the same time, you really want to pinch yourself. Is it real? Are they going to allow her to leave?”
Ozturk’s release was delayed when the government sought to make her wear an ankle monitor, prompting Sessions to issue a second order Friday for her to be released without it.
Even though Ozturk was freed, a government lawyer on Friday said a deportation proceeding against her would continue in immigration court. But her long-term outlook is believed to be more favorable for her now than it was before the federal court released her, experts said.
Whatever comes next, and despite the experience of the past six weeks, Ozturk appeared hopeful Saturday.
“I still believe in the values we share,” she said.
People rally in support of Rumeysa Ozturk during a hearing at the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, on April 3, 2025. A federal judge said Ozturk’s detention threatened to chill the speech of millions of noncitizens. (Sophie Park/The New York Times)
In trade battle, US and Europe play a game of chicken, and beef
By JEANNA SMIALEK
Hendrik Dierendonck, a second-generation butcher who has become, as he describes it, “world famous in Belgium” for his curated local beef, thinks Europe’s way of raising cattle results in varied and delicious cuts that European consumers prize.
“They want hormone-free, grass-fed,” Dierendonck explained recently as he cut steaks at a bloody chopping block in his Michelin-starred restaurant, which backs onto the butchery his father started in the 1970s. “They want to know where it came from.”
Strict European Union food regulations, including a ban on hormones, govern Dierendonck’s work. And those rules could turn into a trade war sticking point. The Trump administration argues that American meat, produced without similar regulations, is better — and wants Europe to buy more of it, and other American farm products.
“They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful,” Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, said in a televised interview last month. “And theirs is weak.”
Questions of beauty and strength aside, the administration is right about one thing: European policymakers are not keen on allowing more hormone-raised American steaks and burgers into the EU.
Further opening the European market to American farmers is just one ask on a laundry list of requests from the Trump team. U.S. negotiators also want Europe to buy more American gas and trucks, to change their consumption taxes and to weaken their digital regulations.
Trade officials within the EU are willing to make many concessions to avert a painful and protracted trade war and to avert higher tariffs. They have offered to drop car tariffs to zero, to buy more gas and to increase military purchases. Negotiators have even suggested that they could buy more of certain agricultural products, like soy beans.
But Europeans have their limits, and those include America’s treated T-bones and acid-washed chicken breasts.
“EU standards, particularly as they relate to food, health and safety, are sacrosanct — that’s not part of the negotiation, and never will be,” Olof Gill, a spokesperson for the European Commission, the EU administrative arm, said at a recent news conference. “That’s a red line.”
where cattle are often raised on large feedlots with the use of hormones. European safety officials have concluded that they cannot rule out health risks for humans from hormone-raised beef.
To Dierendonck, the rules also fit European preferences. The lack of hormones results in a less homogenous product. “Every terroir has its taste,” he explains, describing the unique “mouth feel” of the West Flemish Red cow he raises on his farm on the Belgian coast.
But farming beef without hormones is more expensive. And American exporters have to adhere to hormone limitations when they send steaks, hamburgers or dairy products to EU countries, which European farmers argue is only fair. Otherwise, imports produced using cheaper methods could put European farmers out of business.
It is not clear how serious the Americans are about pushing for farm products like beef and chicken. But the topic has surfaced repeatedly. When U.S. officials unveiled a trade deal with Britain on Thursday, for instance, beef was part of the agreement.
But according to Britain, the deal would simply make it cheaper for Americans to export more hormone-free beef to the country and would not weaken British health and safety rules, which are similar to those in the EU.
When it comes to the EU, the United States can already export a large amount of hormone-free beef without facing tariffs, so an equivalent deal would do little to help American farmers.
But diplomats and European officials have repeatedly insisted that there is no wiggle room to lower those health and safety standards. And when it comes to meat-related trade restrictions more broadly, there is very little. Chicken, for instance, faces relatively high tariffs, and there is limited appetite to lower those rates.
That’s because Europe is protective of both its food culture and its farms.
Where America tends to have massive agricultural businesses, Europeans have maintained a more robust network of
smaller family operations. The 27-nation bloc has about 9 million farms, compared with about 2 million in the United States.
Subsidies and trade restrictions help to keep Europe’s agricultural system intact.
The EU allocates a big chunk of its budget to supporting farmers, and a mix of tariffs and quotas limit competition in sensitive areas. EU tariffs on agricultural products are around 11% overall, based on World Trade Organization estimates, though they vary hugely by product.
And the bloc could place higher tariffs on U.S. farm goods if trade negotiations fall through. Its list of products that could face retaliatory levies, published Thursday, includes beef and pork, along with many soy products and bourbon.
But it’s not just tariffs limiting European imports of American food. Strict health and safety standards also keep many foreign products off European grocery shelves.
Take beef. Dierendonck and other European farmers are banned from using growth stimulants, unlike in the United States,
“We cannot accept import products that do not meet our production standards,” said Dominique Chargé, a cattle farmer from the west of France who is also president of La Coopération Agricole, a national federation representing French agricultural cooperatives.
The result is that the United States does not sell much beef to Europe. It makes more economic sense for U.S. farmers to sell into markets that allow hormone-raised cattle.
In Europe, including at Dierendonck’s butchery and farm, there’s a value placed on the old-fashioned, small-scale way of doing things, policymakers and farmers agreed. Dierendonck does buy some American beef for customers who ask for it — it’s easy to cook, he said — but it’s a small part of the business.
“I like American beef very much, but I don’t like it too much,” said Dierendonck, explaining that to him, the beef his European suppliers provide is varied, like a fine wine. “For me, it’s about keeping traditions alive.”
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Hendrik Dierendonck works at the Michelin-starred Restaurant Carcasse in SintIdesbald, Belgium, on Thursday, April 24, 2025. European officials call food safety standards a “red line,” as Trump administration officials criticize rules that keep American beef and other meats off grocery shelves. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
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Ahead of key China talks, Trump says 80% tariff ‘seems right’
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that 80% tariffs on Chinese goods “seems right,” making his first suggestion of a specific alternative to the 145% levies he has imposed on China ahead of weekend talks to contain a trade war between the world’s two biggest economies.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and chief trade negotiator Jamieson Greer will meet Chinese economic tsar He Lifeng in Switzerland for talks that could be the first step toward resolving their trade disputes.
“China should open up its market to USA — would be so good for them!!! Closed markets don’t work anymore!!!” Trump said in a Truth Social post.
“80% tariff on China seems right. Up to Scott B,” Trump said.
While Trump has on several recent occasions indicated that he expects the punitive tariff rates he has imposed on China to come down, he had not until now floated a potential figure for where they may fall to.
Following the post, U.S. stock futures dipped slightly before rising somewhat, while in Europe the U.S. dollar and European stocks also briefly weakened.
Since taking office in January, Trump has hiked levies on imports from China to 145%, in addition to those he imposed on many Chinese goods during his first term and the duties levied on Beijing by the Biden administration.
China hit back by imposing export curbs on some rare earth elements and raising tariffs on U.S. goods to 125%, in addition to extra levies on select products including soybeans and liquefied natural gas.
The weekend talks in Geneva have been described by Trump administration officials as a step towards de-escalating tensions with China.
Virtual chronic care provider Omada Health has filed to go public in the United States, the latest in a string of healthcare listings expected this year.
While U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff whiplash has roiled markets and cast a shadow on new listings, companies in sectors perceived as less sensitive to economic headwinds are pushing ahead with their initial public offerings.
Omada did not disclose the details as to how much it plans to raise from its IPO.
The San Francisco, California-based company, which last raised $192 million in a Series E funding round in 2022, reported a 38% increase in revenue to $169.8 million for 2024, according to its IPO paperwork.
For the first quarter of 2025, the company posted a 56.6% year-on-year jump in revenue to $55 million.
Omada has applied to list its common stock on the Nasdaq under the symbol “OMDA”.
Healthcare IPOs on U.S. exchanges have fetched $7.1 billion in 2024, compared with $2.8 billion a year earlier, according to data compiled by LSEG.
Hinge Health, which provides digital exercise therapy programs to help people manage and overcome muscle and joint pain, filed for its
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J.P.Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Barclays are among the underwriters for Omada’s offering.
World markets traded on a solid footing this week as the Trump administration struck what could be the first of “dozens” of trade deals in the coming weeks, and as investors cheered this weekend’s US-China trade talks in Switzerland.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq are back where they were on April 2, recovering the 15% losses in the days immediately after ‘Liberation Day’ when Trump unveiled his reciprocal tariffs, Germany’s DAX is at new highs and Japanese stocks sealed their best weekly winning streak in over two years.
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Pope Leo XIV calls for end to war in first Sunday blessing as pontiff
By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
Pope Leo XIV returned to the balcony where he was presented to the world as the new leader of the Roman Catholic church just days ago, using his first Sunday address to the faithful to call for peace.
“Never again war,” he said to a roar from the tens of thousands who had gathered in St. Peter’s Square at noon. Leo’s appeal was addressed to the world’s most powerful leaders, and he noted that it had been almost 80 years to the day since the “immense tragedy” of World War II had ended. He quoted Pope Francis, his predecessor, who often referred to the current global wave of violence as “a third world war in pieces.”
Leo was elected pope Thursday, becoming the first American pontiff on the second day of the conclave. Since then, he has had a busy calendar, with Vatican observers watching closely for clues on how he plans to lead.
On Friday, with the cardinals who had elected him the previous day, he celebrated his first Mass in the Sistine Chapel as pope. In his homily, he pledged to align himself with “ordinary people.”
The pope met with the cardinals again Saturday, saying he would continue the work of Francis in steering the church toward greater collegiality and a focus on caring for marginalized people.
On Sunday, he continued to echo themes that Francis spoke about regularly in his Sunday addresses, including the wars in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip.
The pope called for an “authentic, just and lasting peace” in Ukraine and the freeing of all prisoners in that war. He added that children should be returned to their families. Although he did not specify which children, many Ukrainian children have been taken to Russia during the war against the wishes of their families.
Leo also made a plea for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and for humanitarian aid to be allowed to be distributed “to the exhausted civilian population” in the territory, as well as the return of the hostages taken in the Hamas assault on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
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Sunday also marked the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, he noted. Leo said he was praying, along with the faithful, that more Catholics would take up callings to the priesthood and religious orders. “The church has such a great need for them!” he said, at a time when the number of people joining the priesthood and religious orders has been declining.
“And to young people, I say: Do not be afraid,” accept the call of the church, he said, citing the words that Pope John Paul II said at his official inaugural Mass as pontiff in 1978. Leo’s words were drowned out by cheers.
Before speaking to those gathered in St. Peter’s Square, Leo celebrated Mass with other clerics, near the tomb of St. Peter, which is under the Renaissance basilica.
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Leo delivered his homily half in English and half in Italian. In one passage, he urged clerics to listen. “Listen to the word of God, then listen to others, know how to build bridges, know how to listen in order not to judge, not to close doors thinking that we have all the truth and no one can tell us anything.”
About 100,000 people filled the square and the av-
enue leading to it, according to the Vatican. Next Sunday, St. Peter’s is expected to fill with the faithful once again for his official inaugural Mass.
Leo takes over the church at an especially busy time, as 2025 is a Jubilee Year, when Catholics seek penance and forgiveness of sins. Jubilee Years occur every quarter-century, and millions of visitors are likely to visit Rome for dozens of events.
Marching bands crisscrossed the square Sunday, as this weekend was the Jubilee of Bands. Leo greeted “these pilgrims with affection,” thanking them for enlivening the morning with their music and performances.
“Viva il Papa” (“Long live the pope”) people cheered when he finished his address.
The Vatican said Leo and several Vatican officials then went to the Apostolic Palace, where officials had sealed Francis’ apartment when he died. On Sunday, the seals were removed.
Leo has not said where he will live, but Francis broke with a long-standing tradition and resided in a Vatican guesthouse rather than in the palace.
Candice Dias, from California, was in the square Sunday to hear Leo’s blessing. “He seems to be very down to earth,” she said before he spoke.
Tim Salaba, 62, a retired engineer from Lonsdale, Minnesota, who was also there, said he had been surprised by the cardinals’ choice. “Like most people, we thought the odds of an American pope were very low,” he said. “I hope, in time, he will be referred to less as the American pope and just as the pope.”
An image of Pope Leo XIV is printed by a Catholic group in Chiclayo, Peru, where the pope served as bishop, on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Pope Leo XIV returned to the balcony overlooking St. Peter’s Square, using his first Sunday address to the faithful to call for peace. (Marco Garro/The New York Times)
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Éxito rotundo feria de examen de conducir motora en el Hiram Bithorn
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SAN JUAN – Decenas de ciudadanos tomaron el examen práctico para conducir motora en las carreteras de Puerto Rico durante un evento celebrado ayer, sábado, en los terrenos del estadio Hiram Bithorn en San Juan.
La iniciativa fue del presidente de Comisión de Transportación e Infraestructura de la Cámara de Representantes, José ‘Cheito’ Hernández, y contó con personal Centros de Servicio al Conductor (CESCO), el Municipio de San Juan, el Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas, al igual que la Comisión de Seguridad en el Tránsito.
“Estamos muy complacidos con la acogida que ha tenido el primer evento masivo de administración del examen práctico para conducir motora en Puerto Rico. Sobre 200 personas acudieron lo que demuestra que en Puerto Rico existe un gran fervor por
la actividad en motocicleta y el deseo de estar bajo la ley. Esto es parte de nuestra iniciativas de mejorar la seguridad en las carreteras de la Isla”, dijo el también Representante por el Distrito #3 de San Juan. Entre los requisitos para obtener la licencia de conducir motoras se encuentran la evidencia de
Mujer muere atropellada y otra resulta
POR CYBERNEWS FAJARDO – Una mujer murió y otra resultó herida tras ser impactadas por un vehículo mientras cruzaban la carretera PR-987, en el kilómetro 2.7 del barrio Sardinera en Fajardo, la noche del sábado, informó la Policía.
Según el reporte de las autoridades, Luisa Chi Domínguez, de 72 años, y Lina Chi, de 71 años, ambas residentes del estado de Florida, fueron atropelladas cerca de un restaurante mientras cruzaban la vía. El conductor del vehículo, un menor de 16 años con li-
aprobación del examen teórico, copia inalterada de la licencia de conducir vigente, certificación de zero multas y/o de un plan de pago activo y al dia, dos comprobantes, el número 2024 de $15.00 y el 0842 de $2.00.
“Continuaremos evaluando mecanismos para la protección de todos en las vías de rodaje, ese es nuestro compromiso”, añadió el legislador.
Por otra parte, los conductores están obligados a utilizar ciertos equipos, incluyendo cascos DOT, gafas de protección, pantalón largo, calzado que cubra los tobillos y guantes.
herida en Fajardo
cencia vigente, manejaba un Toyota Yaris blanco. Domínguez cayó al pavimento y sufrió heridas graves que le ocasionaron la muerte en el acto. Lina Chi sufrió traumas en la pierna izquierda y laceraciones, y fue transportada por paramédicos al Centro Médico de Río Piedras, donde fue atendida en condición estable.
Conny Varela exige investigación a la CEE, propone nueva comisión conjunta sobre temas electorales
Especial Conjunta sobre reforma electoral.
SAN JUAN – El representante popular José ‘Conny’ Varela, exigió hoy a la presidencia de la Cámara de Representantes que le de paso a su resolución de investigación sobre el proceso electoral del 2024, y presentó una Resolución Concurrente para crear una Comisión
“El 2 de febrero de 2025 presenté la Resolución de la Cámara 144, para ordenar a la Comisión de Gobierno de la Cámara de Representantes investigar las irregularidades del proceso de elección general de 2024, y el escrutinio posterior a las elecciones. A esta fecha, la Cámara no le ha dado paso a esa Resolución. Con las revelaciones de esta semana sobre los bonos concedidos por la Juez Jessika Padilla Rivera antes de cesar su puesto como presidenta alterna de la Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (CEE), y sobre las irregularidades en el proceso de escrutinio electrónico con las máquinas de Dominion, entiendo que es urgente que la Cámara investigue a fondo la situación de la CEE, para que no se sigan repitiendo los problemas de las elecciones de 2020 y 2024”, indicó el ex presidente de la Comisión de Asuntos Electorales y Constitucionales de la Cámara.
Varela indicó además que en el día de hoy ha presen-
tado una Resolución Concurrente para crear una Comisión Conjunta de Cámara y Senado para evaluar y obtener reformas al Código Electoral de 2020.
“Ya hemos pasado dos ciclos electorales con el Código Electoral de 2020, y hemos visto como esa ley ha resultado en unos procesos caóticos y una gran pérdida de confianza en nuestro sistema electoral. Para el próximo ciclo electoral, además de todos los defectos del Código Electoral, nos enfrentamos a la necesidad de sustituir el sistema de máquinas de escrutinio electoral, que ha demostrado haber cumplido su vida útil. Por eso, es necesario que nos organicemos en una Comisión Conjunta de Cámara y Senado, para lograr las enmiendas necesarias al proceso electoral con tiempo suficiente para las elecciones de 2028. Si no lo hacemos, ese proceso electoral será aún peor que los del 2020 y 2024. Puerto Rico no aguanta otro proceso como esos.”, concluyó el Representante Varela.
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After allegations, Smokey Robinson show goes on as planned
By JONATHAN ABRAMS
By the time Smokey Robinson performed “Cruisin’” near the end of his concert at the Beau Rivage Theater in Biloxi, Mississippi, on Friday night, the mutual admiration was on full display between the Motown icon and a revering audience of nearly 1,600 people, with no mention made of the sexual assault allegations levied against him last past week.
Robinson had long discarded the jacket from the sparkling green suit and the tie he had begun the night with.
“Do you know what you volunteered for?” he asked one woman he invited onstage.
“We’ll be right back,” Robinson said when she answered that she had freely agreed to join him in front of the audience, and he took a few steps pretending to accompany her backstage. He then implored her to get the audience to sing “Cruisin’” lyrics with them.
Robinson, 85, smiled widely throughout a festive set, dancing suggestively while performing many of his landmark songs as part of a tour celebrating the 50th anniversary of his album “A Quiet Storm” and the release of a new album, “What the World Needs Now.”
He proceeded with the concert just days after four women who worked as housekeepers for Robinson claimed in a lawsuit that he had repeatedly sexually abused them for years at his homes in California and Nevada. Three of the women did not report the allegations sooner over fear of their immigration status, the lawsuit states.
The suit argues that Robinson created a hostile work environment and demanded they work long hours without receiving minimum wage. It also claims that Robinson’s wife, Frances, knew of the assaults.
A lawyer for Robinson, Christopher Frost, said he would argue for the lawsuit’s dismissal, calling it “an ugly method of trying to extract money from an 85-year-old American icon” in a statement to The New York Times.
The women are only identified as Jane Does 1 through 4 in the lawsuit filed in Superior Court in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
“We stand behind our four clients’ truthful claims, which are neither false nor vile but clearly describe Mr. Robinson’s despicable criminal acts,” their lawyer, John Harris, said in a statement Tuesday.
No mention of the lawsuit was made during Friday’s show. Robinson received a rose from a spectator during the set. He paused to take a selfie with another audience member, doubling back when she said that she did not capture the photo the first time, and received an extended ovation at the end of the performance.
Robinson starred in the Motown group the Miracles and performed many of the songs — “The Tears of a Clown,” “I Second That Emotion,” “My Girl” and “You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me” — he helped create that are threaded with some of the most endearing soul music ever created.
Friday’s performance included songs from “Gasms,” his 2023 album of love songs. He interspersed the show with personal recollections of working in Motown and joked that Stevie Wonder had once been so motivated to collaborate that the blind musical pioneer had offered to drive him to the studio.
Clara Mecum said she had come to hear Robinson’s songs and that the lawsuit did not affect her enjoyment.
“I paid over $100 to see him,” she said. “I didn’t care. I really love him.”
Sandra Thames attended the performance with her son, David Rucker, after the pair drove three hours on a rainy afternoon. They relished the performance and the enthusiasm that Robinson brought to the stage.
“That has no bearing on the show,” Thames said of the lawsuit. “Whatever happened, if it happened, it’ll come to the light, I believe.”
Liz Moran, who had brought her mom to the
show as a Mother’s Day present, said she was unaware of the allegations, so they had no effect on her appreciation of the show. “I liked all the oldies,” she said. “I enjoyed it.”
Robinson was enshrined as a solo artist in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and has been honored by the Recording Academy and the Kennedy Center.
His next performance is scheduled for May 31 at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, New York.
An advertisement for Smokey Robinson at the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino in Biloxi, Miss., on Friday, May 9, 2025. The 85-year-old Motown star performed for an adoring crowd and made no mention of the claims against him at his first concert since being named in a lawsuit. (Annie Flanagan/The New York Times)
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How long will the ‘end of the world’ stay wild?
By LAUTARO GRINSPAN
It was summer in the city that proudly calls itself the “end of the world,” and the tourists were flocking like the penguins they had traveled thousands of miles to see.
On a late-January afternoon, five hulking cruise ships crowded the docks in Ushuaia, Argentina, waiting to take deep-pocketed passengers who had paid $15,000 to $18,000 each, on average, for once-in-a-lifetime 10-day trips to Antarctica.
A decade ago, about 35,500 Antarctic passengers set out from Ushuaia. Last year, about 111,500 did. This year, as the season draws to an end, the local port authority estimates that the number will be 10% higher. Many tourists will spend a night or two in town before or after their cruise, some choosing an Airbnb over a room at one of the city’s mostly humble hotels.
The explosion in tourism is bringing prosperity for the 83,000 residents of Ushuaia, which is squeezed between the Andes and the Beagle Channel. But it’s also taxing resources, raising the cost of living and contributing to a housing shortage for workers. The remoteness, Ushuaia’s biggest selling point, only makes the strain worse.
“We sell an aura,” said Julio Lovece, president of the Ushuaia Foundation XXI, which advocates tourism development that benefits the local community. “Unlike other places that maybe sell waterfalls, or whales, or glaciers, we sell the end of the world.”
Cruising to ‘another planet’ Ushuaia, the southernmost city on earth, serves as the main gateway to the Antarctic. Although cruises also leave from Chile, Australia and New Zealand, Ushuaia’s location, only about 600 miles from the tip of Antarctic Peninsula on the island of Tierra del Fuego, explains why it accounts for 90% of departures.
The desire to see unspoiled landscapes, unusual animals and vast amounts of ice in an age of global warming draws tourists to the cruises. Gabriel Chocron, a co-founder of the local agency Freestyle Adventure Travel, described visiting Antarctica as “the closest you can get to visiting another planet.”
Ushuaia has roughly 6,200 beds for tourists on any given night, according to the Tierra del Fuego tourism board, about 40% in hotels and at least 30% in temporary rentals — most likely an undercount because not all rentals are re -
The End of the World Train at Ushuaia National Park in Argentina on Feb. 14, 2025. Crowds of tourists bound for Antarctica have brought prosperity to Argentina’s southernmost city, but the boom is also squeezing locals and stressing the environment. (Victor Moriyama/The New York Times)
gistered with the tourism authorities. Many of the downtown hotels come with views of the Beagle Channel, but accommodations tend to be rustic and unassuming. Budget lodgings abound, including a new Japanese-style capsule hotel. But tourists hoping for upscale accommodations won’t find much in town: The three five-star options are nature resorts far from the city center.
Aiming to capture a piece of that high-end market, Meliá Hotels announced in late December that it would build a $50 million luxury resort in Ushuaia, featuring a spa, indoor and outdoor pools, and an 800-seat auditorium.
The current lack of high-end options, local tourism officials say, hampers their efforts to persuade cruise passengers to stick around and explore the region.
Clearing forest to build homes
Passengers paying as much as $18,000 for an average Antarctic cruise might be surprised to see how some local workers live. Nolly Ramos León, a 34-year-old single mother of four, has spent years residing on a mountainside where people have cleared the forest to build shacks. The neighborhood offers striking views of the harbor and the luxury cruise ships.
Her first home there was a flimsy structure made of nylon and wood. The family’s new home has better insulation to protect against temperatures that routinely plunge below freezing, but it is still not connected to the power grid or to water and sanitation services. Ramos León gets some of the family’s water from a nearby stream. She walks down stairs and dirt paths that become treacherous in winter to reach her job as a housekeeper at a hotel, where she earns roughly $500 a month, plus more for overtime.
According to Ramos León, the Ushuaia residents who built on the mountain slope did so “to try to live with dignity.” At least 10% of Ushuaians live in these types of informal settlements, with scant access to public services. “It took us a long time to get this house built,” Ramos León said. “Sometimes we didn’t even have money to eat, because I was putting it toward this house.”
Ushuaia’s population has ballooned by 45% since 2010, as workers have moved there seeking economic opportunity. But absorbing the newcomers has been difficult. Ringed by mountains, a national park and the water, Ushuaia has had little room to develop housing and infrastructure — and building anything in such remote terrain comes with a hefty price tag.
Most renters in Ushuaia spend roughly 80% of their income on housing. A two-bedroom apartment averages 900,000 pesos a month (about $1,000), according to the local housing advocacy group Que Nos Escuchen. In 2023, rents in Ushuaia outpaced even those of Palermo, one of the trendiest neighborhoods in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
A remote wonderland at risk
As with other resort towns limited by geography and struggling to balance housing and tourism, Ushuaia has few options that are palatable to everyone. Proposals to expand the city limits have bubbled up, but many worry they could do more harm than good. Some within the tourism sector say pumping the brakes on both the city’s and their industry’s growth could be essential to preserving the region’s appeal as a remote, natural wonderland.
In a statement, the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators, which represents the private-sector Antarctic tourism industry, said most cruisers stay in hotels, not private rentals, during their time in Ushuaia, and cited a “commitment to fostering a sustainable balance between tourism and community well-being in Ushuaia.”
Antarctic vacations also have an big impact on the environment: Each traveler accounts for about 5 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per trip — roughly equivalent to the amount of carbon pollution the average person produces in an entire year; for the average American, it’s closer to 16 tons. Antarctica is warming at a faster pace than the rest of the world, and rising temperatures are already reshaping the landscape around Ushuaia. During a hotter-than-normal summer, a popular ice and rock formation inside Tierra del Fuego National Park collapsed into a slushy heap this year.
According to the IAATO, cruises help raise awareness and turn paying customers into ambassadors for the protection of Antarctica. But environmental activists say the time has come to consider hard caps on the number of cruisers, or making at least parts of the continent off-limits to tourism.
Housing activists in Ushuaia also worry about the future as homes become harder to afford. “There’s going to come a moment where it’s going to be all tourists in Ushuaia,” said Maria Elena Caire, president of the Que Nos Escuchen housing group. “And who is going to serve them? Because residents can’t find a place to live.”
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE UTUADO CRISTINA MORENO Peticionaria EX PARTE
Civil Núm.: LR2025CV00082. Sobre: INFORMACIÓN DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, S.S.
A: CUALQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA QUE
PUDIERA TENER INTERÉS EN ESTE EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO Y/O EN LA PROPIEDAD QUE MAS DELANTE DE DESCRIBE Y ESPECIALMENTE A SUCESIÓN RAMÓN ROMÁN LÓPEZ Y A SUS POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE, QUIENES ERAN VECINOS DE LARES, PUERTO RICO, SUCESIÓN DE JUAN BAUTISTA GONZÁLEZ, Y A SUS
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE, QUIENES ERAN VECINOS DE LARES, A JUAN F. ROMÁN MEDINA Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. Por la presente se notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de Ia última publicación de este edicto a exponer Io que a sus derechos convenga en del expediente promovido por Ia parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre Ia siguiente finca: RÚSTICA: Predio de Terreno que enclava Una Estructura Terrera de uso Residencial en Hormigón y Bloques, localizado en el Barrio Piletas, Sector Cheo Román del Término Municipal de Lares, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de TRES MIL DOSCIENTOS OCHENTA Y OCHO PUNTO SEIS MIL TRESCIENTOS CUARENTA Y NUEVE DIEZ MILÉSIMAS DE METROS CUADRADOS (3,288.6349 M.C.), equivalentes a CERO PUNTO OCHO MIL TRESCIENTOS SESENTA Y SIETE DIEZ MILÉSIMAS DE CUERDA (0.8367 CDA.); En lindes por el NORTE: con Camino Municipal asfaltado,
seguido por terrenos del Sr. JUAN F. ROMÁN MEDINA; por el SUR: con terreno ocupado por el SR. ÁNGEL L. ROMÁN MORENO, Camino municipal asfaltado, seguido por terrenos de Ia SUCN. RAMÓN RAMOS LÓPEZ; al ESTE: SUCN. RAMÓN ROMÁN LOPEZ y por el OESTE: ANTES PLACIDA ROMÁN RODRÍGUEZ, AHORA CON TERRENOS DE LA SRA. ELIGIA GONZÁLEZ ROMÁN. No consta inscrita en ci Registro de La Propiedad. Libre de cargas. La dirección física de esta propiedad es: Carr. 453 km. 5.4 Int. Barrio Piletas Sector Román, Lares, Puerto Rico. También, se Ie informa que el Tribunal acogió Ia solicitud y el caso será señalado oportunamente para vista en su fondo en del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Utuado, a Ia cual usted puede comparecer personalmente o asistido por abogado a presentar cualquier oposición que tuviera a Ia petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le notifica a usted que este Tribunal ha ordenado su citación, para que presente oposición a este expediente, si se viesen perjudicados con Ia inscripción que se solicita; advirtiéndole que de no hacerlo dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar desde de la fecha de Ia última publicación del edicto, l parte peticionaria podrá solicitar y obtener la aprobación de este expediente de dominio y Ia correspondiente inscripción a su nombre en el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Arecibo, el dominio de Ia finca anteriormente descrita. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando Ia siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de Ia parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oIrle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en Ia Petición, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. En Utuado, Puerto
Rico, hoy 15 de abril de 2025. DIANE ÁLVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
GLORIA I. RIVERA FONSECA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Peticionarios Vs. EX-PARTE
Civil Núm.: GY2025CV00002. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, a todo el que tenga derecho real sobre el inmueble descrito en la Petición de Expediente de Dominio, a las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción solicitada, así como los colindantes, causahabientes o herederos y en general a toda persona que desee oponerse. Por la presente se le notifica que comparezca, si creyera que le conviene, a este Honorable Tribunal, dentro de veinte (20) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, el cual se publicará por tres (3) veces y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el Expediente de Dominio promovido por el peticionario para adquirir el dominio de la siguiente propiedad: “RUSTICO: Solar radicado en el Barrio Santo Domingo del término municipal de Peñuelas, Puerto Rico con una cabida superficial de MIL OCHOCIENTOS CUARENTA PUNTO DOS MIL DOSCIENTOS VEINTIUN METROS
CUADRADOS (1,840.2221 m/c) y en lindes por el Norte con terrenos de Doña Milagros Toucet antes, hoy su sucesión; por el Sur con terrenos de Don Carlos H. Castellar Maldonado y servidumbre de paso que conduce a carretera municipal; por el Este con terrenos de Don Eduardo Castellar Pacheco antes, hoy su sucesión, con terrenos de Don José Orlando Castellar Pacheco antes, hoy su sucesión, y en parte con terrenos de Don Nelson Castellar Pacheco antes, hoy su sucesión; y por el Oeste con terrenos de Don Luis Castellar Velázquez. Contiene una estructura construida en hormigón armado y bloques dedicada a vivienda, dividida en tres (3) cuartos dormitorios, sala-comedor y cocina unidos, dos (2) baños y balcón y un garaje aparte”. Debe notificar con copia de sus alegaciones a la representación legal del promovente, Lcdo. Joseph Brocco Santiago, P.O. Box 608, Peñuelas, Puerto Rico 00624-0608, Teléfono 787-836-3020. En yaz-
co, Puerto Rico, a 29 de enero de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DELIA APONTE
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SALA DE CAROLINA
JUAN ANTONIO
GARCÍA OCASIO
Peticionario
EX PARTE
Civil Núm.: CN2025CV00137. 403. Sobre: EXPDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: PERSONAS
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CUALQUIER DERECHO REAL O DESEAN OPONERSE ARTURO RODRÍGUEZ; NAHIARA
C. FRANK QUINTANA; CELIO GARCÍA.
Por la presente se le notifica a usted que se ha presentado ante este Tribunal el expediente de dominio arriba mencionado, con el fin de justificar e inscribir a favor del peticionario, el dominio que tienen sobre la siguiente finca la cual no consta inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad: “RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Hato Puerco, hoy Palma Sola del término municipal de Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, compuesto de uno punto dos mil setecientos cuatro (1.2704) cuerdas, equivalentes a cuatro mil novecientos noventa y dos punto nueve mil ochocientos treinta y siete (4,992.9837) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con Arturo Rodríguez y Nahiara C. Frank Quintana; por el Sur, con Ramal de la Carretera PR957; por el Este, con Nahiara C. Frank Quintana; y por el Oeste, con Celia García y Arturo Rodríguez”. El abogado del peticionario es: Lcdo. Felix Oscar Rivera Borges, RUA 10781, PO Box 178, Mayagüez, PR 006810178; Tel: 787-873-5660; felixoriveraborges@yahoo.com. Y SE NOTIFICA, que este Tribunal ha ordenado que se publique la petición del peticionario por tres (3) veces dentro del término de veinte (20) días en un periódico de circulación general para que los que tengan algún derecho real sobre el inmueble descrito, las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscrip-
ción y en general, a todos los que deseen oponerse, puedan afectarlos dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la última publicación del presente edicto. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a constar de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. Por Orden de este Tribunal del F/ HON. ISMAEL ALVAREZ BURGOS, Juez de este Tribunal, expido la presente en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de abril de 2025, bajo mi firma y sello oficial. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. AIXA M. MONTES MORALES, SECRETARIA.
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Demandante Vs. CARLOS JOSÉ SUÁREZ GUILLÉN
Demandado Civil Núm.: FBCI201502247. (409). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #278, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, a la parte demandada y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 20 de marzo de 2025, y para satisfacer la Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos fechada 5 de julio de 2017, notificada el 20 de febrero de 2019, procederé a vender el día 3 DE JUNIO DE 2025, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque certificado y/o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar número 61 de la Urbanización Ciudad Jardín de Canóvanas, localizado en el Barrio Canóvanas del Municipio de Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 500.00 metros cuadrados. En
lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de 25.00 metros, con el solar número 62; por el SUR, en una distancia de 25.00 metros, con el solar número 60; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 20.00 metros, con la Calle Malva de dicha Urbanización; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 20.00 metros, con el solar número 52, todos estos solares y la calle pertenecen al referido desarrollo urbano. El inmueble antes descrito contiene una casa de concreto diseñada para una sola familia, construida de acuerdo con planos y especificaciones sometidos y aprobados por las agencias e instrumentalidades gubernamental pertinentes. Inscrita al Folio Ciento Veintiuno (121) del Tomo Trescientos Noventa y Cuatro (394) de Canóvanas, Registro Inmobiliario Digital del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, Sección Tercera (III) de Carolina, Finca Número Dieciséis Mil Quinientos Veintinueve (16,529). Dirección Física: 61 Ciudad Jardín, Canóvanas, Puerto Rico 00729. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, o sea, la suma principal de $242,325.07 más intereses al tipo convenido y demás términos y condiciones, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 3 DE JUNIO DE 2025, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de $250,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 10 DE JUNIO DE 2025, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, la cantidad de $166,666.66. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 17 DE JUNIO DE 2025, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, la cantidad de $125,000.00. A la propiedad no le afectan gravámenes preferentes. A la propiedad le afecta el siguiente gravamen (a ejecutarse): Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Banco Santander Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $250,000.00, con intereses al 3 1/2% anual, vencedero el día 1 de julio de 2043, constituida mediante la escritura número 10, otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el día 14 de junio de 2013, ante la notario María De Lour-
des Nieves Crespo, e inscrita al folio 77 del tomo 426 de Canóvanas, finca número 16,529, inscripción 7ma. A la propiedad no le afectan gravámenes posteriores. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tenga (n) interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción de los gravámenes que se están ejecutando, que los mismos serán eliminados del Registro de la Propiedad, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el termino de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada y a su abogado o abogada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo siempre que haya comparecido al pleito. Si el (la) deudor (a) por Sentencia no comparece al pleito, la notificación será enviada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a las últimas direcciones conocidas. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para conocimiento de la parte demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 29 de abril de 2025. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #278.
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NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS CERTIFICATE TRUSTEE OF BOSCO CREDIT II TRUST SERIES 2017-1, BY FRANKLIN CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION AS SERVICER
Parte Demandante Vs. RUBÉN RODRÍGUEZ MOLINA, YOMARIS CARRIÓN TORRES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AR2019CV02354. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - (IN REM). ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, HÉCTOR MELÉNDEZ PAGÁN, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo, a la parte demandada y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 8 de abril de 2025, y para satisfacer la Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos fechada 11 de diciembre de 2024, notificada el 21 de enero de 2025, procederé a vender el día 10 de junio de 2025, a las 10:00 de la mañana, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque certificado y/o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número noventa y dos en el Plano de Parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Carriones del Barrio Arenalejos del término Municipal de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de doscientos noventa y siete punto veintiséis metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con calle de la comunidad; por el SUR, con parcela número setenta y ocho y setenta y nueve; por el ESTE, con parcela número noventa y uno; por el OESTE, con parcela número noventa y tres. Inscrita al Folio 1 del Tomo 1,033 de Arecibo, Registro Inmobiliario Digital del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera (I) de
Arecibo, Finca Número 29,266. Dirección Física: Com. Carriones, 92 Calle 11, Arecibo, PR 00612. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, o sea, la suma principal de $33,243.00 más intereses al tipo convenido y demás términos y condiciones, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo. La PRIMERA
SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 10 DE JUNIO DE 2025, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de $40,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA
SUBASTA, el día 17 DE JUNIO DE 2025, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, la cantidad de $26,666.67. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA
SUBASTA, el día 24 DE JUNIO DE 2025, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, la cantidad de $20,000.00. A la propiedad no le afectan gravámenes preferentes. A la propiedad le afecta el siguiente gravamen (a ejecutarse): Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de RG Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, por la suma principal de $40,000.00, con intereses al 7 1/2% anual, vencedero el día 1 de junio de 2037, constituida mediante la escritura número 197, otorgada en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el día 10 de mayo de 2007, ante la notario Jelissa Vélez Quiñones, e inscrita al folio 2 del tomo 1033 de Arecibo, finca número 29,266, inscripción 11ma. A la propiedad le afectan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: Aviso de Demanda de fecha 31 de marzo de 2010, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, en el Caso Civil Número CCD2010-0270, seguido por RG Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, contra Rubén Rodriguez Molina, soltero y Yomaris Carrión Torres, soltera, por la suma de $39,059.25, más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 14 de enero de 2014 al folio 2 del tomo 1033 de Arecibo, finca número 29,266, Anotación A. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 12 de diciembre de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo, en el Caso Civil número AR2019CV02354, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, seguido por Franklin Credit Management Corp as servicer for Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB as Certificate Trustee of Bosco Credit II Trust Series 2017-1, contra Rubén Rodriguez Molina, Yomaris Carrión Torres y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales com-
puesta por ambos, por la suma de $40,000.00, más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 13 de abril 2020, al tomo Karibe de Arecibo, finca número 29,266, Anotación B. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tenga (n) interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción de los gravámenes que se están ejecutando, que los mismos serán eliminados del Registro de la Propiedad, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el termino de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada y a su abogado o abogada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo siempre que haya comparecido al pleito. Si el (la) deudor (a) por Sentencia no comparece al pleito, la notificación será enviada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a las últimas direcciones conocidas. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para conocimiento de la parte demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 28 de abril de 2025. HÉCTOR MELÉNDEZ PAGÁN, ALGUACIL. ***
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE
FUNDING, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. JUAN C. CARABALLO HUERTAS
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GB2024CV00714. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE
DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JUAN C. CARABALLO HUERTAS - LOS FRAILES SECT PUCHO HUERTAS
CARR 20 KM 4.5, GUAYNABO PR 00970; HC 3 BOX 8074 GUAYNABO PR 00971-9706.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 19 de marzo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. BRENDA ZAMOT SALGADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MANATÍ ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE - DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. ADALBERTO VIRELLA DE LEON
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: MT2024CV00560. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: ADALBERTO VIRELLA DE LEON - 19 CALLE POLVORIN, MANATI PR 00674; 218 W OLEY ST, READING PA 19601-2414. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418
San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en MANATI, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de marzo de 2025. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. ROSIMAR LÓPEZ ROBLES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Parte Demandante Vs. ELIZABETH RIVAS BURGOS
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: JD2024CV00503. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ELIZABETH RIVAS BURGOS - URB LOS REYES,53 CALLE
ESTRELLA JUANA DIAZ PR 00795-2860.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y
Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Roneil Louzau Pastrana cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección roneil. louzau@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de marzo de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. VANESSA RODRÍGUEZ MALDONADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SABANA GRANDE ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Parte Demandante Vs. JAIME CONCEPCION CRESPO Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SB2024CV00131. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JAIME CONCEPCION CRESPO - BO LATORRE CARR 368 KM6.2, SABANA GRANDE PR 00637; HC 9 BOX 4063, SABANA GRANDE PR 00637-9426. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación
responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SABANA GRANDE, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de marzo de 2025. NORMA SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. AUREA LUGO ALMODÓVAR, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. FELIX A. SURITA VELEZ Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CB2024CV00697. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: FELIX A. SURITA VELEZ117 CALLE MUNOZ RIVERA, CABO ROJO PR 00623-4061; 63 CALLE JIMENEZ INT CABO ROJO PR 00623-4016; 123 S BELVIDERE AVE YORK PA 17401-3624.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie
Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CABO ROJO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de marzo de 2025. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. MARÍA M. AVILÉS BONILLA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN SEBASTIÁN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Parte Demandante Vs. JOSE L. SALAS GALARZA Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: MO2023CV00171. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOSE L.
SALAS GALARZABO CUCHILLAS CARR 444 KM 2.0, MOCA PR 00676; HC 5 BOX 10446 MOCA PR 00676; HC 5 BOX 104763 MOCA PR 00676-9401. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law. com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN SEBASTIAN,
Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de marzo de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. LAURA LUGO CRESPO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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How to Play:
Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.
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Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
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Crossword
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1. "The Andy Griffith Show" lad
2. Home of the Cowboys, familiarly
3. Dissident
4. Japanese straw mat
5. Euros replaced them
6. Designer Oscar de la ___
7. Draft choices
8. USSR's successor
9. Squids' kin
10. First name in daredevilry
11. Mexican dough
12. ____ in the neck
13. Waste material
19. Hula ____ (circular toys)
24. Japanese P.M. Taro ___
25. Sneak ___ (look surreptitiously)
26. Cotton alternative
27. Oldsmobile model of 1999-2004
28. German/Belgian low mountain range, with "The"
29. "Bali ___" ("South Pacific" song)
30. Mediator
31. Snow, in French
32. "___ no?"
35. Dead as a doornail
38. "Isn't ___ bit like you and me?"
42. "From the land or sky ___" (Paula Cole line)
support groups
64. 13, to Caesar
65. Untouchable Ness
66. Key's partner
67. 440, to Caesar
68. Like hedgehogs
69. Greek god of love
(Beatles lyric)
40. Soundness
43. Easy ___
45. Japanese delicacy
48. Horned beasts
50. Forehead part
52. Parisian plane
53. 990, to Caesar
54. Immersed in
55. 2,009, to Caesar
56. Marathoner Zatopek
57. 503, to Caesar
59. Filled tortilla
60. Chiding sounds
62. Small bus. type
May 12, 2025
13- & 14-year-old girls trade punches in Amanda Serrano Championships
By THE STAR STAFF
Twenty-four fighters from 19 municipalities in Puerto Rico participated on Saturday in the Amanda Serrano Championships, held at the Popular Plaza in San Juan’s T-Mobile District and organized by the World Boxing Organization (WBO).
The fights were three-round bouts in the 13-14 age group. In the first fight of the night, Kaleisha “Bumbi” Figueroa, from Aguadilla, defeated Geralivette Palau, from Barranqui-
Amanda
tas, by split decision in the 85-pound weight class.
Yeribeth Montalván, from Río Grande, defeated Joriangelis Sierra, from Juncos, by unanimous decision in the 101-pound weight class.
In the third fight of the night, Yaneiliz “Nani” Figueroa of Aguadilla defeated Ezeiris Hernández of Caguas by unanimous decision in another fight at 101 pounds.
At 106 pounds, Dixie Delgado of Caguas defeated Arylis Rivera of Canóvanas by unanimous decision.
Jenelie Ramírez of Morovis defeated Kirriat Portalatin of Aguadilla by unanimous decision at 110 pounds.
Yamirelis “La Explosiva” Márquez of Trujillo Alto defeated Jylianisse Amaro of Luquillo by unanimous decision in a bout at 119 pounds.
In a southpaw duel at 119 pounds, Nikeysha Guernard of Mayagüez defeated Kamila García of Trujillo Alto by unanimous decision.
At 132 pounds, Cineliz “Lola” Figueroa of Dorado defeated Jennieliz Aguirre of Camuy by split decision.
Humacao native Génesis López defeated Adamaris González of Salinas by unanimous decision at 106 pounds.
Milady Santana of Humacao defeated Paola “La Guerera” Rivera of Barranquitas by unanimous decision in a bout at 114 pounds.
San Juan native Delila Magaña defeated Génesis Sella of San Germán by unanimous decision at 132 pounds.
In the final bout, at 138 pounds, Shenille “La Callada” Class, from Vega Baja, defeated Tayshka “La Rusa” González, from San Juan, via unanimous decision.
Unified featherweight world champion Amanda Serrano
and WBO President Gustavo Olivieri presented the winners with a special WBO “Future Champion” belt, a trophy recognizing the seven-division world champion, monetary compensation, and gift cards to Econo supermarkets for all participants. The other participants also received a medal from the organization.
Team Caribe defeats Team Atlántico in Double A Baseball All-Star Game
By THE STAR STAFF
Team Caribe defeated Team Atlántico 9-2 in the 2025 season Double A Superior Baseball League All-Star Game held Saturday at Juan José “Tití” Beníquez Stadium in San Sebastián.
It was the fourth year in a row that the team, composed of the East, Southeast, Central, and South sections, has won the main event of the Puerto Rico Baseball Federation (FBPR) season, which was hosted by San Sebastián for the first time. This year, the event included the fifth edition of the Leyendas de Nuestro Béisbol Game, which brings together outstanding former Double A players, and a clinic on the urban sport Béisbol5.
Team Caribe took the lead in the top of the fourth inning with a five-run rally, highlighted by a single by Eric Hernández that broke a
one-run tie and brought in the go-ahead run.
Yadiel Rivera, of the Pescadores del Plata of Comerío, was the game’s outstanding offensive player with two hits and three RBIs, earning Most Valuable Player honors. He also won the home run competition, beating Jorge “Búho” Ortiz of the Fundadores of Añasco in the final round.
Raúl Rivera, of the Cocoteros of Loíza, earned the win in relief. Jean Félix Ortega, of the Cariduros of Fajardo, was named the most outstanding pitcher, pitching two innings with just one hit allowed, no runs and one strikeout.
The FBPR dedicated the All-Star Game to José “Caco” Vázquez of the Cidra Braves, who this year reached the historic mark of 600 hits. In his message, the veteran announced that this will be his last year as an active Double-A player.
Also recognized was speedy rookie Antonio Brown of the Ponce Cubs, who set a new record with 23 stolen bases in a 20-game regular season.
Both players were honored with commemorative posters presented by FBPR President Dr. José Daniel Quiles and Executive Director Efraín Williams.
Team Caribe, composed of the East, Southeast, Central, and South sections, won the Double A Superior Baseball League All-Star Game for the fourth year in a row on Saturday.
Saturday’s
Serrano Championships consisted of three-round bouts in the 13-14 age group.
Seven-division world champion Amanda Serrano is seated at ringside with, from left, World Boxing Organization President Gustavo Olivieri, Hall of Famer Félix “Tito” Trinidad and professional boxer/influencer Jake Paul.
The San Juan Daily Star
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