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While Ms. Soto has Medicaid and Medicare insurance, Mr. Enriquez has no health insurance and did not qualify for Medicaid.

Sunbathing iguanas have become a disruptive factor on airport runways in San Juan, Puerto Rico .

Sometimes you win by losing as the Escogido Leones were soundly defeated Monday by Venezuela's Aragua Tigres, 7-0, but still clinched the Caribbean Series title.

Puerto Rico will soon allow people to hunt down iguanas and sell their meat. Interested hunters can earn up to $6 per pound of iguana flesh, which would be processed and then exported to the United States.

Photo: San Juan Mayor Jorge Santini

The San Juan municipal government is launching a hate-crimes unit to investigate and raise awareness on crimes targeting people because of their sexual preference, religious belief or nationality.

“We have identified 25 members of the municipal police department who will be trained for this and assigned to the unit,” San Juan Mayor Jorge Santini said.

The unit will be tasked with education the public about hate crimes. The administration is also boosting training and resources for officers in handling domestic violence cases.

“We as a society cannot discriminate against people for who they are,” Santini said.

A Puerto Rican fisherman spent nearly three weeks adrift in the Caribbean, surviving on raw fish and trapped rainwater, before reaching the Colombian island of San Andres.

The GOP front-runners endorse a plan that could disenfranchise millions of voters—including their own.

By Adam Serwer / Photo: Bilingual Ballot: As Republican primary voters head to the polls in Florida on Tuesday, both GOP front-runners have endorsed a policy that would contradict existing law and could disenfranchise millions of voters across the country.

During a recent debate, both Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney supported getting rid of bilingual ballots when the topic was brought up by the moderator. "I would have ballots in English," Gingrich said. "And I think you could have programs where virtually everybody would be able to read the ballots." Romney agreed. "I think Speaker Gingrich is right with regards to what he's described," he said.

That wasn't much of a stretch for Gingrich, who once called Spanish "the language of living in a ghetto." Yet their glib demand for English-only ballots would require amending the Voting Rights Act and doing away with hard-won legal requirements that have existed for decades. It's a sharp turn away from the Bush administration, which despite a spotty civil rights record filed more ballot access cases on behalf of non-English speakers than any administration had before.

"We used to have poll taxes, we used to have whites-only primaries, we used to not let women vote," says Myrna Perez, senior counsel with the Brennan Center's Democracy Program. "Policies that would make our ballots less accessible to Americans based on what language they speak would be at odds with that historical arc towards expanding the franchise."

Bilingual ballots are no abstract issue in Florida, which has a sizeable population of Americans whose first languages are Spanish or Haitian Creole. "The Haitian population is a voting bloc, the Hispanic community is a voting bloc," says Carolyn Thompson, a Florida-based activist with the Advancement Project, a civil rights group. "They pay taxes, they've won the right to vote in their language."

Under the 1975 revision of the Voting Rights Act, communities whose non-English speaking populations reach a certain level have to provide voting materials in alternate languages.

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Shame on Piero Andujar for not being properly informed about the wonderful work of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 gave African Americans the de facto right to vote. Women did get the de facto right to vote way before African Americans. The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution was a joke in providing African Americans the right to vote.

Piero Andujar, not being fully and properly informed, insults not only the great civil rights leader Martin Luther King, but all African Americans. Not up-to-date knowledge is dangerous to democracy. He should learn to listen to learn rather than personally attack when not properly informed.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is now being used by the Obama Administration to halt Republican efforts to limit the voting rights of African Americans in the Presidential and General Elections of 2012.

Robert McCarroll – Carolina, Puerto Rico

Zulma Toro-Ramos had to really lean on her niece to persuade her to become an engineer.

Mario Gomez MontaA ez from Fajardo Puerto Rico, was arrested along with another individual on May 11, 2011, in Baldorioty Expressway near the exit to the Monserrate Avenue in Carolina, forA attempted bribery of Puerto Rico Police agents .

PRELIMINARY results in yesterday's governorship election in Adamawa State showed candidates of the three major political parties in a neck-to-neck showing.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: A Pentagon official is refusing to extend a deadline and delay the trial of five Guantanamo prisoners charged in the Sept.

I'm now in my 21st year as the Gater's Music Director/Assistant Program Director and in my 16th year holding down the fort as the Gater's Afternoon Drive Air Talent.

The island's government is announcing plans to kill as many of the reptiles as possible and export their meat in hopes of eradicating an imported species that has long vexed residents and entertained tourists.

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Dion , Ronnie Spector , Darlene Love and Frankie Avalon are among the many legends of the 1950s and '60s set to perform this fall on the 2012 Malt Shop Memory Cruise .

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Liyel Imoke, governor of Cross River State, beats his only challenger for the People's Democratic Party, PDP, governorship ticket to emerge the party's Since the current democratic dispensation began in 1999, the winner of governorship primaries of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, in Cross River State had always emerged the governor of the ... (more)

Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, finally accepts Henry Seriake Dickson as candidate of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, for the February 11, 2012 governorship election in Bayelsa The coast is now clear for Henry Seriake Dickson, candidate of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, to take part in the Bayelsa State governorship ... (more)

The United Nations must condemn statements by the Iranian mullahs' regime Ambassador regarding the presence of the regime's agents in Camp Liberty NCRI - At the invitation of the Egypt Lawyers Union for Democratic and Legal Studies, on January 26th a conference was held in Cairo in condemnation of "the injustice against Ashraf residents". A number ... (more)