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GoFundMe announces expansion into Puerto Rico
By THE STAR STAFF
oFundMe, the online fundraising platform operator, on Tuesday announced its expansion to Puerto Rico.
The platform now offers a fundraising experience designed for island residents, allowing individuals and nonprofits to create fundraising campaigns, accept donations, and withdraw funds to their bank accounts.
“We are proud to offer Puerto Ricans a safe, simple, and powerful way to support the causes and people who need it most,” GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan said in a written statement. “The people of Puerto Rico have a deeply rooted culture of helping others, and we look forward to seeing the positive impact they will make through GoFundMe, whether it is assisting individuals in medical emergencies, rebuilding communities after natural disasters, funding educational scholarships, or supporting local businesses.”
The expansion is part of the company’s broader effort to safely provide even more help to its global community, which, along with its nonprofit platform, has raised more than $30 billion since 2010.
To date, more than $50 million has been raised on GoFundMe for Puerto Rico-related campaigns, with significant relief provided in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017. With the first-time expansion to the Caribbean, GoFundMe
The online fundraising platform operator GoFundMe now offers a fundraising experience designed for Puerto Rico residents, allowing individuals and nonprofits to create fundraising campaigns, accept donations, and withdraw funds to their bank accounts.
is opening an easy, safe, and trusted avenue for support while continuing to grow its global community, the platform operator said.
Fitch downgrades natural gas project developer New Fortress Energy
By THE STAR STAFF
Fitch Ratings has downgraded the natural gas project developer New Fortress Energy Inc.’s (NFE) LongTerm Issuer Default Rating to ‘B+’ from ‘BB-’ and has placed it on Rating Watch Negative.
The senior secured debt of NFE, which has several natural gas projects in Puerto Rico, has been downgraded to ‘B+’/’RR4’ from ‘BB-’/’RR4’. ‘RR4’ denotes average recovery in the event of default.
The downgrade and Negative Watch reflect NFE’s significant refinancing risk and highly constrained liquidity position given its capital-intensive growth strategy, including the Puerto Rico projects.
Weaknesses include higher than previously expected EBITDA-leverage estimated to be greater than 6.0x in 2024-2025 under Fitch’s rating case, and commoditylinked pricing in the company’s natural gas supply contracts. Concentration of cash flows in Latin America and ongoing execution risk including the development of complex liquefied natural gas production assets further increase business risk.
The competitive positioning of NFE’s terminals offer long-term opportunities for natural gas supply and power plant development. Cash flow stability is expected to increase as the company executes more contracts, underpinned by some take-or-pay agreements and minimum volume commitments.
However, NFE faces significant maturities over 20252026 and currently liquidity is highly constrained with the revolver fully drawn. NFE’s term loan B ($774 million outstanding) and revolving credit facility ($1.0 billion) have springing maturities that could be triggered by July 16, 2025 if the company’s 6.75% senior secured notes ($875 million) are not refinanced by that date and the 6.5% senior secured notes ($1.5 billion) are not refinanced by July 31, 2026, each 60 days before their maturity dates. NFE has obtained a backstop agreement for refinancing its 2025 maturity, which partially addresses that risk. Failure to refinance the upcoming maturities on reasonable terms and in a timely manner, and generate adequate liquidity for NFE’s working capital requirements and ongoing growth projects, could result in further downgrades.
Will the power go out and when will it come back? It depends
Ernesto was packing wind gusts of 62 mph in approach toward Puerto Rico
By THE STAR STAFF
LUMA Energy CEO Juan Saca said Tuesday that once the power service goes out as a result of Tropical Storm Ernesto, an assessment will be made that takes 24 to 48 hours and beyond that there is no certainty about how long it would take to restore the system.
“The time will depend on the intensity of what we find,” Saca said in response to questions from the press. “If we suddenly have gusts of 70 miles per hour, it is very different than if we have winds of 35 miles per hour. It will depend on how much rain and how much wind. We will try to make an assessment as soon as possible. To do it responsibly, it can take 24 to 48 hours in coordination with the mayors.”
“So I can’t give an answer,” Saca added. “In [Hurricane Fiona], more than 90 percent of customers had the system restored in 12 days. I understand that this was a super good performance by LUMA. Yes, there were the rest, which I don’t like because they were without electricity for a longer time.”
He insisted that the private grid operator’s response plan “is well detailed on our website.”
When asked if the expectation is to restore the service in 12 days or less if there are no major breakdowns, Saca answered that “it will depend on what happens and where it happens and we don’t know that.”
“After the event we can give an estimate of how long it can take,” he said.
Saca insisted that 50-mile-per-hour winds will impact the electrical system as occurs in other places around the world, but that LUMA has personnel and materials to deal with the emergency.
At an earlier press conference on Tuesday, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia reiterated that no person who does not have to perform essential work should be on the streets.
“We are going to take measures to protect ourselves starting at 6 p.m. today,” the governor said, adding that the strongest winds would hit around midnight. “My recommendation is that we all stay at home, except for those who are providing essential services in the public and private sectors. In the private sector, those who are in the distribution chain, for example, food. But it is time to take shelter at 6 p.m. today.”
Pierluisi urged residents and tourists to stay off the beaches, as Ernesto was expected to cause dangerous ocean conditions, especially in the northern and eastern parts of the island, according to a New York Times report.
The governor also reiterated that non-essential public employees will not have to report to work in person, unless their supervisors tell them otherwise.
Pierluisi noted that the Financial Oversight and Management Board has already given the go-ahead to use the $1.3 billion Emergency Fund if necessary.
At the time of the press conference, two people were sheltered in the municipality of Humacao.
At 2 p.m. on Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported that the center of Tropical Storm Ernesto was located near latitude 17.5 North, longitude 63.5 West, and moving toward the west-northwest near 18 miles per hour (mph; 30 km/h), and that general motion was expected to continue through Tuesday night.
A motion toward the northwest and then north at a slower forward speed was expected for today and Thursday.
On the forecast track, the center of Ernesto was expected to pass near or over the Virgin Islands on Tuesday evening, and then pass just to the northeast and north of Puerto Rico Tuesday night and into today. Ernesto should then move over the western Atlantic later in the week.
Just a slight shift west in Ernesto’s track would possibly bring stronger winds and rains to parts of Puerto Rico. Ferry service from the offshore island municipalities of Vieques and Culebra would be temporarily suspended by Tuesday afternoon, Pierluisi said.
Data from an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicated that maximum sustained winds had increased to near 60 mph (95 km/h) with higher gusts. Additional strengthening was forecast, and Ernesto was expected to become a hurricane by early Wednesday.
Tropical-storm-force winds extended outward up to 105 miles (165 km) from the center. A wind gust of 62 mph (100 km/h) was recently reported at Gustavia, Saint Barthélemy.
Ernesto was expected to produce total rain accumula-
tions of 4 to 6 inches over portions of the Leeward Islands from Guadeloupe to Dominica and across the U.S and British Virgin Islands. Rainfall totals of 6 to 8 inches, with maximum amounts of 10 inches, were expected across southeastern Puerto Rico, with totals of 2 to 4 inches across northwestern Puerto Rico.
Heavy rainfall could lead to localized flash flooding and mudslides in the Leeward and Virgin islands through today, and over Puerto Rico late Tuesday into Thursday, the hurricane center said.
“The big impact from Ernesto is going to be the rainfall,” NHC Director Michael Brennan said earlier in the week.
At 2 p.m. Tuesday, tropical storm conditions were occurring over portions of the warning area in the Leeward Islands, with tropical storm conditions expected to begin spreading over the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico later Tuesday. Hurricane conditions were also possible over the Virgin Islands, and Vieques and Culebra in Puerto Rico on Tuesday evening into Wednesday.
A storm surge was expected to raise water levels by as much as 1 to 3 feet above ground level for the eastern coast of Puerto Rico from San Juan to Guayama, including Culebra and Vieques, and in the U.S. Virgin Islands, including St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix.
Swells generated by Ernesto were affecting portions of the Leeward Islands and Virgin Islands and were expected to spread westward to Puerto Rico later Tuesday.
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said anyone not performing essential functions should be off the streets by 6 p.m. Tuesday, adding that the winds from Tropical Storm Ernesto should be at their strongest around midnight.
Accused killer of Peruvian students headed for trial
By THE STAR STAFF
After hearing the evidence presented by the San Juan Prosecutor’s Office, Judge Yazdel Ramos Colón has determined cause for trial against Jeremy Rafael Serrano Alicea for the 2023 slayings of Franco Medina Angulo and Sergio Palomino Ruiz, two Peruvian students who were visiting Puerto Rico.
The killings took place on the morning of May 6, 2023, outside the Emoji restaurant on Loíza Street in San Juan.
Following an arraignment next week, the start of the trial is scheduled for Sept. 16.
Prosecutors Edmanuel Santiago Quiles and Ángel García Rodríguez presented seven witnesses during the preliminary hearing, which began on May 2.
On March 16 of this year, the San Juan Prosecutor’s Office charged
with first-degree murder, attempted murder, possession and illegal use of an automatic weapon, and endangering the safety of citizens by shooting a firearm in public. The Court of San Juan found cause for trial on those charges, except for the crime of attempted murder.
According to the investigation of agent Erick Ortiz Rodríguez of the Puerto Rico Police Bureau’s Criminal Investigation Corps (CIC), the master’s degree students from New York University were in front of the commercial establishment waiting for transportation when Serrano Alicea shot them with an automatic firearm, causing their death. Serrano Alicea was arrested on March 15 by agents of the Intelligence and Arrests Division after arriving at the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport on a flight from Baltimore, and was placed in the custody of the San Juan CIC’s Homicide Division.
Gang pair charged in killing of 4-month-old baby in Cayey
According to the investigation, the crime occurred when the defendants fired indiscriminately at a vehicle on highway PR-14 in Cayey, wounding the occupants and causing the death of infant Annelie Zoe Bonilla Burgos.
By THE STAR STAFF
Puerto Rico Police Bureau (PRPB) personnel have solved the slaying of a four-month-old baby that occurred on May 21 in Cayey, after the release of two members of the criminal organization “Los Viraos.” The accused, David González Olmos, alias “Caguitas,” 29, and Eliezer Rivera Otero, alias “Tiki,” 23, face charges for the death of the infant.
“This is a case of a vicious death, which demonstrates the disregard for life that these individuals have,” said Police Commissioner Antonio López Figueroa, who stressed the importance of removing the criminals from the streets for the tranquility of the affected communities. “Both defendants are suspects in multiple murders and violent crimes.”
The crime occurred when the defendants, according to
the investigation, fired indiscriminately at a vehicle on highway PR-14 in Cayey, wounding the occupants and causing the death of infant Annelie Zoe Bonilla Burgos. The target of the attack was Víctor Manuel Torres Martínez, 27, who was wounded and had survived a previous attack at the W Disco, also in Cayey.
González Olmos, who has been identified as one of the leaders of “Los Viraos,” was arrested in Aguada, while Rivera Otero had been previously detained in Caguas. Both are linked to drug trafficking in Cayey and surrounding areas, and are being held at the Bayamon Correctional Complex.
“The filing of charges is a hard blow to a criminal organization that has spread terror throughout an entire area of the island,” said Col. Carlos Cruz, the PRPB’s head of special operations.
Governor enacts teaching facilitator benefits, amendments to Domestic Violence Law
By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia has signed into law Senate Bill (SB) 207 allowing teaching facilitators in the Department of Education to have the same benefits and rights as regular teachers and teaching support personnel. Under the new law, which goes into force immediately, teaching facilitators, who have functions based on providing academic assistance to teachers, must comply with the schedule of seven and a half hours of work per day and will accumulate two days and a half of paid vacation per month.
The governor also enacted SB 419 so that judges who preside over hearings for the issuance of restraining orders write brief
determinations of fact and conclusions of law on which they base their decisions so that the parties involved are informed. The bill amends the Law for the Prevention and Intervention of Domestic Violence (Law 54) and the Law Against Stalking in Puerto Rico.
Pierluisi also signed SB 1199, a law that paves the way for a more efficient and updated arbitration process; SB 1307, which introduces the Federal Lien Registration Act to update Puerto Rican law governing commercial transactions and eliminate the need for duplicate registrations; and Senate Joint Resolution 403, which orders the Land Authority to cede and transfer to the direct descendants of the Batey de la Central Coloso attachés the property titles where their families are located.
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FBI investigating efforts to infiltrate presidential campaigns, possibly by Iran
By ADAM GOLDMAN, MAGGIE HABERMAN and GLENN THRUSH
The FBI said earlier this week that it was investigating the apparent hacking of the Trump campaign and what a senior law enforcement official also said was an effort to gain access to the accounts of top Democrats in a cyberattack possibly originating from Iran.
In a brief statement, an FBI spokesperson confirmed that the bureau was investigating “a campaign cyberintrusion,” days after former President Donald Trump said Iran had targeted his campaign. The bureau did not specifically name Iran or Trump. Nor did the bureau address the extent of the breach or the possibility that it encompassed other campaigns or political figures.
But investigators are also looking into an attempt to infiltrate accounts associated with the Democrats’ presidential campaign, according to the law enforcement official with knowledge of the situation. The timing of the attempt was unclear, although the official added that there was no indication that the effort had succeeded. Vice President Kamala Harris’ team, which carefully monitors cyberthreats, is not aware of any breach to its systems, according to a campaign official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss security arrangements.
On Friday, Microsoft said a hacking group affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard had infiltrated the account of a former top aide to an unnamed presidential campaign. Trump’s
longtime adviser Roger Stone said Microsoft contacted him a few months ago, saying that his Hotmail email account had been compromised and that it believed the culprit to be Iran, he said in a phone interview Monday evening.
A few weeks later, he got a call from the FBI that his Gmail account had also been hacked — and the bureau believed that his account had been used by malign actors to successfully gain access to the internal communications of other people in Trump’s political operation, Stone added.
The FBI has repeatedly warned about foreign countries meddling in the upcoming election, including using artificial intelligence to spread misinformation. It has singled out Iran, China and Russia, in particular. Russia has a long history of trying to sow chaos in American elections, targeting the Democratic National Committee in 2016.
In a statement, Iran’s mission to the United Nations denied the accusations. “The Iranian government neither possesses nor harbors any intent or motive to interfere in the United States presidential election,” it said.
The scope of the breach of the Trump campaign remains unclear, but investigators anticipate further attempts by the hackers to disseminate other materials, officials said. The material sent to news organizations such as The New York Times included research and planning documents.
Phishing attacks, of the type used in the Trump breach, tend to be broad-based efforts using a large volume of emails
containing malicious links. It takes only one or two of the recipients to click on a link to precipitate a major intrusion.
Microsoft said the hacking group believed to be behind the breach, Mint Sandstorm, used a compromised account to send fake emails to worm into the campaign’s own accounts and databases in an effort to disrupt and delegitimize the democratic process.
On Saturday, Trump asserted that hackers had collected only publicly available information. “We were just informed by Microsoft Corporation that one of our many websites was hacked by the Iranian Government — Never a nice thing to do!” he wrote on his social media site.
His disclosure came after news outlets, including Politico, reported receiving a trove of internal campaign documents from an anonymous AOL account whose only identity was the name Robert. Among the records was a lengthy dossier assessing the candidacy of Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio.
The Times also received what appears to be a similar, if not the same, set of information.
Iran’s effort to infiltrate Trump’s campaign comes after warnings that the country was plotting to kill the former president. In 2020, Trump authorized a drone strike in Iraq that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds Force, a secretive wing of the Revolutionary Guard that is responsible for external operations.
Last week, the Justice Department charged a Pakistani man with ties to Iran with trying to hire someone to kill political figures in the United States, including potential targets such as Trump. That Stone, a fiery provocateur who came of age in the rough-and-tumble Richard Nixon era of Republican politics, seems to have been the inadvertent conduit for a serious breach of Trump’s cybersecurity is noteworthy.
In 2016, Stone was among a group of senior Trump advisers who sought to maximize on social media the damage inflicted on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign by the WikiLeaks hack of Democratic National Committee officials and others on the Clinton team.
Stone was later convicted of lying to Congress in connection with the investigation into Russian efforts to undermine Clinton and the role they said he played as an intermediary between the campaign and WikiLeaks. Stone maintained his innocence and denied involvement. Trump pardoned him shortly before leaving office.
“I’m cooperating in every way,” Stone said Monday about his current interactions with federal investigators.
Préstamos Personales Pequeños otorgados para la semana que terminó el Sábado, 10 de agosto de 2024
Former President Donald Trump holds a campaign event in Bozeman, Mont., Aug. 9, 2024. The FBI said on Monday, Aug. 12, 2024, that it was investigating whether the Trump campaign had been hacked, days after the former president said Iran had launched a cyberattack. (Louise Johns/The New York Times)
4.4-magnitude earthquake strikes near Los Angeles
Outside Pasadena City Hall, where a water pipe burst during Monday’s earthquake, in Pasadena, Calif., Aug. 12, 2024. Millions across Southern California were rattled on Monday afternoon by a 4.4-magnitude earthquake, though there were no reports of significant damage, according to the United States Geological Survey. (Philip Cheung/The New York Times)
By SOUMYA KARLAMANGLA and JILL COWAN
Millions across Southern California were rattled Monday afternoon by a 4.4-magnitude earthquake, though there were no reports of significant damage, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The earthquake hit at 12:20 p.m. and was centered just outside of Pasadena, about 5 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, according to the agency.
“It was a pretty good jolt,” said Susan Hough, a seismologist with the USGS who was on the California
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Institute of Technology campus in Pasadena when the earthquake struck. “It was clearly a decent shake, though not huge.”
The earthquake, which was followed two minutes later by a 2.1-magnitude aftershock, was felt more than 100 miles away in Bakersfield, San Diego and Joshua Tree National Park, according to the USGS. The earthquake’s epicenter was in El Sereno, a small neighborhood in northeast Los Angeles.
Hough said that scientists were not yet sure which fault had produced the earthquake, though it appeared close to the Puente Hills Fault, which runs through the Los Angeles basin into northern Orange County. The fault line, discovered in 1999, can produce devastating earthquakes, scientists say, and was responsible for the 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake that killed eight people.
As of midafternoon, there had been no initial reports of widespread damage from Monday’s quake, said Margaret Stewart, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire Department. Firefighters from each of the city’s 106 fire stations were driving through their districts to survey any effects, she said, and would soon be able to provide more detailed assessments.
The California Highway Patrol also said that it hadn’t received any reports of accidents or damage related to the quake.
In Pasadena, the leafy suburb not far from the center of the quake, students in local schools who were back for their first day of the new year got a real-life “drop, hold and cover” drill, though there were no reports of injuries or damage, said Lisa Derderian, a spokesperson for the city.
At Houston’s, a bustling power lunch spot where Derderian was eating, she said, the couple of hundred diners in the restaurant suddenly stopped their conversations as the temblor rattled the room.
“It was silent, which you would never hear there,” she said. “People looked around, then resumed eating.”
Derderian said city crews were dispatched to survey for damage. Where they found it was City Hall.
The old, ornate building, recognizable for its facade’s numerous appearances in movies, was finished in 1927 but was retrofitted for earthquake safety in 2007, Derderian said.
Nevertheless, she said, a pipe there burst during Monday’s temblor and was spewing water from the third story down the outside of the building for about 45 minutes. The elevators stopped automatically, trapping one person who was quickly rescued.
The pipe break triggered the building’s fire alarm, Derderian said, so the building was evacuated and city employees stood in the heat for the better part of an hour. There was no evidence of structural damage, she said.
Derderian said she hoped that the temblor, coupled with the one last week, would remind people to prepare for the bigger earthquake that has long been expected. On Aug. 6, a moderately strong, 5.2-magnitude quake centered near Bakersfield rattled a wide swath of Southern California.
“We need to make it a priority,” she said.
Across the rest of the northeastern part of Los Angeles, residents said they were startled but largely unharmed.
In the Highland Park neighborhood, thuds and shudders ran through homes, followed by several seconds of powerful and sustained shaking. A kitchen cabinet door flung open in one house, though all of its contents stayed inside. A few residents gathered on one street, babies and dogs in tow, marveling at how intense the quake had felt, though no one reported any damage.
Not far away in Silver Lake during a cycling class, the bikes swayed slightly, giving some riders a woozy feeling, but the class continued. As students left the fitness studio, they compared text messages from friends and family asking if they were safe.
A video posted on the social platform X showed the ESPN studio in downtown Los Angeles shaking during a live broadcast.
“From the data we’re getting, the shaking was just barely strong enough to maybe knock a few things off of shelves — that was the peak shaking we’re seeing,” Hough said. “It wasn’t strong enough to cause damage.”
August 14, 2024
Where (and how) Americans are taking advantage of clean energy tax credits
By NADJA POPOVICH
Americans claimed more than $8 billion in climate-friendly tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act last year, according to new data released by the Treasury Department, a “significant” number that is higher than initially expected, officials said.
The bulk of the money, more than $6 billion, helped households install rooftop solar panels, small wind turbines and other renewable energy systems. These credits were most popular in sunny states, including much of the Southwest and Florida, the data shows.
Credits that helped Americans improve the energy efficiency of their homes by installing an electric heat pump or boiler, adding insulation, replacing windows and making other
upgrades were most popular in the Northeast and Midwest.
A version of both tax credits has existed for years, but they were expanded and extended under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, which invested at least $370 billion in clean energy programs across the U.S. economy. The tax incentives have proved so popular that the law’s final price tag is likely to be higher.
The new Treasury data offers the first detailed snapshot of how these more generous benefits were used in their first full year, by whom and where.
Wally Adeyemo, deputy secretary of the Treasury, told reporters last week that the tax credits have been “more popular than initially projected.”
More than 3.4 million households claimed at least one of the subsidies last year, adding up to more than $8 billion in
total savings, according to the Treasury analysis. The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation initially suggested the credits would cost $2.4 billion in their first year and around $4 billion in subsequent years.
The credit for solar panels was especially popular, the Treasury data shows, with more than 750,000 American households claiming it last year. A credit for heat pumps, meanwhile, was claimed on more than 260,000 tax returns. Some households may have claimed both.
(Because the IRA expanded an earlier, expired tax credit for energy-saving home improvements, some more efficient natural gas-burning appliances were also eligible for the subsidy.)
Former President Donald Trump has said that if he is elected in November and Republicans gain control of Congress, he would push to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, particularly the tax credits for the purchase of electric vehicles, which were not included in the new Treasury analysis. But in a letter this week to House Speaker Mike Johnson, 18 House Republicans argued against repeal, saying it would harm investments made in the economy.
Adeyemo stressed that the upfront savings from the tax credits were only a part of the story, noting that households that install solar panels and switch to more efficient appliances would see lower utility bills for years to come.
Making the switch to cleaner energy also helps to guard against “spikes in fossil fuel energy prices, while improving the quality of the air we breathe and reducing carbon emissions,” Adeyemo said.
Treasury officials also highlighted that nearly half of the households that claimed at least one of the tax credits had incomes of less than $100,000. But about 75% of all tax filers had incomes under $100,000 in 2023, which meant that the credits still disproportionately benefited wealthier taxpayers.
James M. Sallee, an energy economist at the University of California, Berkeley, said that this distribution appears to be “substantially less regressive” than in previous years.
But he noted that tax credits tend to benefit wealthier people for a variety of reasons: They require consumers to pay up front and wait until tax season to recoup the cost and they sometimes require itemizing tax returns, a practice more common among more affluent households. The IRA’s clean energy and efficiency credits also mostly apply to homeowners, who are usually wealthier than renters.
“The IRA tried to break that trend by capping income on a number of provisions,” Sallee said. But, he added, “it’s hard to break away from when you operate through the tax code, which favors the rich.”
The Inflation Reduction Act did fund some rebates at the point of sale, which could help reduce upfront costs for more lower- and moderate-income homeowners looking to buy efficient appliances and make other improvements.
But those rebates have been slower to roll out than the federal tax credits because they require state and tribal governments to set up programs to manage them. So far, only New York and Wisconsin have started their rebate programs but another 19 states and the District of Columbia have applied for funding and expect to offer rebates by the end of the year.
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Yields lower after tame producer inflation data, focus turns to CPI
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U.S. Treasury yields slipped on Tuesday after the release of tame producer price data, which looks unlikely to divert the Federal Reserve from an easing path, with Wednesday’s consumer prices report set to fill out the picture.
The July Producer Price Index increased a less-than-expected 0.1%, after rising 0.2% in June, the Labor Department said, as a rise in the cost of goods was tempered by cheaper services. In the 12 months through July, the PPI increased 2.2%, backing down from a 2.7% rise in June.
Vail Hartman, U.S. rates strategist at BMO Capital Markets in New York, said CPI and PPI are not highly correlated and the market took the data in stride. PPI should not throw the Fed off course because parts of it contribute to the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index, which the Fed relies on most to guide policy, he said.
“Just looking at the PPI data and specifically the elements that feed into core PCE, I don’t think there was anything truly alarming and, from a broader perspective, I think the data conforms with the disinflation narrative.”
Slowing inflation and a cooling labor market have led financial markets to anticipate that the Federal Reserve will start its easing cycle in September. With inflation behaving and the unemployment rate surging to near a three-year high of 4.3% in July, an interest rate cut of 50 basis points from its current 5.25% to 5.50% range cannot be ruled out.
Futures markets reflect odds of about 54% that the Fed will cut 50 bps against 46% for a 25 bps cut, a flip around from late Monday. Traders are pricing in a full percentage point of easing by year-end.
Bond yields fell sharply to their lowest in more than a year in the wake of the surprising jump in the unemployment rate and weaker-than-expected payrolls increase reported last Friday.
They have recovered somewhat but remain under pressure amid concerns that confidence of a soft landing may be excessive and that a recession could be in store.
The yield on the benchmark U.S. 10-year note was down 4 basis points at 3.869%, almost 3 bps below where it stood before PPI. The 2-year note yield, which typically moves in step with interest rate expectations, fell 4.8 basis points to 3.9668%, about 3 bps of which came after the report.
The 30-year bond yield fell 2.5 basis points from late in the previous session to 4.1729%.
The closely watched gap between yields on two- and 10year Treasury notes, seen as an indicator of economic expectations, was at negative 10 basis points, slightly steeper, or less inverted, than its reading of -11.7 bps late Monday. An inverted yield curve is generally seen as a pointer to a recession.
Hopes of an aggressive 50 bps easing in September briefly shifted the gap between 2- and 10-year yields to a positive 1.5 bps last week, the first time the curve had shown a more normal upward slope since July 2022.
Iran’s vice president resigns, signaling deep divisions as Cabinet takes shape
By FARNAZ FASSIHI and LEILY NIKOUNAZAR
Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, ran as a reformist candidate. But when he announced Sunday that his Cabinet nominees included several conservatives and only one woman, he faced a fierce backlash, with a high-profile vice president resigning and political allies accusing him of abandoning campaign promises to bring change.
The resignation Sunday of Mohammad Javad Zarif, who had been appointed vice president for strategy and had led a search committee for Cabinet nominations, shocked Iran’s political circles. He had been a prominent face of Pezeshkian’s campaign, traveling across the country and telling voters to give change a chance. Now, he was abandoning the government in a public display of deep divisions before it was even formed.
In a post on his Instagram account, Zarif said it had become clear to him that he could not bring about the kind of domestic change that people had expected.
“I am not satisfied with the outcome of my work, and I’m ashamed that I could not adequately achieve what I had promised about representation of women, youth and ethnicities and the expert opinion of the committees,” he said.
Zarif followed up Monday with another post on Instagram, saying that his resignation did not mean he regretted supporting Pezeshkian or that he had lost hope in the new government, but rather “it means that I doubt whether I can be effective as a vice president of strategy.”
More stunning was the timing of Zarif’s resignation. As Iran’s former foreign minister, its most seasoned foreign policy expert and the top negotiator in the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, said he was bowing out as a possible regional war loomed.
Iran has been threatening to retaliate against Israel for the assassination of Hamas’ political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran about two weeks ago. Israel, which has not taken responsibility for the killing but had admitted being behind the assassination of a Hezbollah commander in Lebanon around the same time, has said that if Iran and Hezbollah launch large retaliatory attacks, it would strike back with force.
“It’s like a bucket of cold water has been splashed on their heads; they had big expectations, but the result has been minimal,” Iranian columnist Mohammad Javad Rouh wrote on the front page of the Ham Mihan newspaper
From left, Mohammad Javad Zarif, a former foreign minister, and the reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian, at a campaign event, in Tehran, June 19, 2024. Mohammad Javad Zarif’s resignation shocked Iran’s political circles and came as President Masoud Pezeshkian announced that his cabinet would include several conservatives and only one woman. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times)
Monday about the disappointment of voters and the reformist political faction that had endorsed Pezeshkian as its candidate in the presidential race.
At the center of the controversy are two key Cabinet nominees: the candidates for minister of the interior and intelligence. Pezeshkian named two conservatives with a long history of brutal crackdowns on protesters, women and dissidents even though he had pledged during debates and campaign rallies that he would reform such heavy-handed tactics.
Esmail Khatib, who was nominated as the intelligence minister, is a rollover from the previous conservative government who oversaw mass arrests and crackdowns during a womenled uprising in 2022 that followed the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran’s morality police.
The name Eskandar Momeni, a senior commander of the Revolutionary Guard, surfaced at the last minute on the list Saturday as the candidate for interior minister favored by the security apparatus and the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to two members of Pezeshkian’s strategic committee who asked not to be identified because they
did not want to speak publicly about sensitive issues for fear of reprisal.
Momeni has had leading roles in the security apparatus, including the police and antinarcotics forces.
The two people on the strategic team said that Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guard did not want to give up the conservatives’ hold on the interior and intelligence ministries, viewing them as essential for controlling foreign infiltration, namely from Israel, and domestic challenges to the rule of the Islamic republic.
Pezeshkian has not publicly addressed the criticism surrounding the Cabinet. He has said he wants a “unity government” to have less tension and more cooperation and will draw from experienced people in different political factions, including rival conservatives.
The 19 Cabinet members nominated include one woman, Farzaneh Sadegh, as roads and housing minister. But the list notably lacked minorities such as Sunni Muslims and any person from younger demographics. The average age of the proposed Cabinet is 60.
Parliament must approve all the Cabinet members, and the dayslong process typically
involves each minister addressing the chamber and two supporters and two opponents delivering speeches about them. The session is scheduled for Saturday.
Mohammad Reza Aref, the first vice president and a reformist politician, said that in choosing the Cabinet, the priority had been to improve the economy and the livelihoods of people, according to Iranian state media. Aref dismissed the criticism, saying, “The strategy of choosing managers and ministers in this government is not to pay attention to political thinking.”
Analysts say Pezeshkian was expected to make some concessions to appease Khamenei. The new president had said he would run the list by the ayatollah, who typically weighs in on key Cabinet posts. Pezeshkian also negotiated with parliament, which is dominated by conservatives, to make sure the list would not be rejected or held up.
Gholamhossein Karbaschi, former mayor of Tehran and a reformist politician, said conservative lawmakers had threatened Pezeshkian that they would withhold their approval if he nominated ministers they did not support.
“He is facing challenges from every side,” Karbaschi said in an interview with the Entekhab news site.
Still, analysts in Iran said that all the concessions so early on made Pezeshkian look weak.
“The Cabinet that Pezeshkian has put together is inconsistent and incoherent,” Nasser Hadian, a political analyst in Tehran, said in a telephone interview. “Some are acceptable; some not. Some are not qualified for those positions at all. Many of the reformists expected a better Cabinet, but the point is that they are not dealing with the restraints that the president is facing.”
Hadian said that despite all the constraints the new president was under, Pezeshkian still represented an opportunity for change, albeit limited in shape and scope, and that many reformists still wanted to given him a chance despite their disappointment over the Cabinet.
In other nominations, leadership of the foreign and economic ministries went to prominent reformists with an outlook that says Iran’s faltering economy cannot be improved without a change in foreign policy.
Abbas Araghchi, who was Zarif’s deputy, was nominated as foreign minister. He was a member of Iran’s nuclear negotiating team and is well known among Western diplomats.
Abdolnaser Hemmati, the former head of Iran’s Central Bank and a 2021 presidential candidate, was nominated as minister of economy.
Britain’s anti-immigrant riots pose critical test for Starmer
By STEPHEN CASTLE
With cars being torched and mosques and hotels housing asylum-seekers under attack, the riots that swept Britain over the past two weeks have posed the first direct challenge to the new prime minister, Keir Starmer.
But even if the violence has subsided, for now, at least, the shocking scenes of disorder have underscored the scale of the task facing his government.
That, analysts say, includes defusing tensions stoked successfully by far-right groups — over immigration and fraying public services — particularly in areas of Britain that have long been in economic decline.
While opinion polls show the public clearly supports Starmer’s crackdown on violent protesters, “a lot of those people who see the rioters as thugs want immigration brought down,” said Steven Fielding, an emeritus professor of political history at the University of Nottingham.
Starmer, who has promised to cut migration numbers, “needs to follow up and do the things he says he’s going to do,” Fielding added, while noting that it was “no accident” that violence erupted in several economically deprived regions.
Concern over immigration, which declined in Britain after Brexit, is on the rise again and,
People
in the city center of Liverpool, England, where counter-protesters delivered a firm rejection of antiimmigration violence this month, Aug. 8, 2024. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
when jobs are scarce and health care and other services are overstretched, immigrants make an easy target for the far right. The campaign leading up to last month’s general election prompted a bitter political dispute over the last government’s plans to send to Rwanda people arriving in Britain on small boats.
But while around 30,000 people entered the country that way last year, that was only a fraction of those admitted legally minus those who left — a number that hit almost 750,000
in 2022.
Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, a research institute, said Starmer must show he can revive neglected areas where the rightists have found support by bolstering employment and public services.
“He needs to deliver,” Katwala said, “for those towns and cities — whether it’s Southport or Hartlepool — where people’s primary concerns are National Health Service waiting lists and, ‘Can I get a job?’”
Those close to Starmer say he is getting a grip on the disorder, drawing on his experience as a chief prosecutor in 2011, when riots took place in London and he pushed to get those responsible tried, sentenced and jailed swiftly to deter others.
“He has a detailed knowledge of how to do this, and he understands how you prosecute and convict quickly, and you do so visibly in a way that sends a message to anybody who is thinking about participating in one of these riots,” said Claire Ainsley, a former policy director for Starmer.
But ensuring that such violence does not recur is harder, she said.
“We have had the far right with us in good economic times and in bad economic times,” said Ainsley, who now works in Britain for the Progressive Policy Institute, a Washington-based research institute.
“But it is much harder for them to have any kind of influence when you are in better economic times,” she added. “That means people’s living standards rising and people starting to feel they are better off and that they are part of a system that is working — and that isn’t a description of Britain today.”
Ainsley pointed to the role of social media in spreading misinformation and stoking tensions, and cautioned against making a direct link between the riots and immigration. She noted that, alongside extremists, some of the rioters may be looters and other opportunists.
It is, she added, “wrong to assume that all of the people participating in these riots are politically motivated by immigration.”
Still, other analysts note the context of the riots, after years of broken promises to reduce immigration and the contentious dispute over the last government’s doomed effort to send some asylum-seekers to Rwanda.
They were a particular target of the recent anti-immigrant riots, including in Rotherham, England, where a hotel housing some asylumseekers was attacked Aug. 4, driving home the severity of the disorder.
Launched by a former prime minister, Boris Johnson, in 2022, the Rwanda plan was adopted as a flagship policy by Rishi Sunak, who entered Downing Street later that year. The courts ruled against the proposal, and despite months
of political maneuvering, no asylum-seekers were sent to Africa under the plan. After taking office, Starmer quickly scrapped the effort.
But Katwala said that by pledging to “stop the boats,” Sunak had drawn attention to the issue, sending “very loud messages” about how much control he would exert over national borders while delivering none. The result, Katwala said, was to “stoke up the level of concern over the issue, and completely fail on all fronts.”
By global standards, the scale of small-boat arrivals is relatively modest and “the visible lack of control is much more the issue than the number of people coming via that route,” Katwala said.
While Starmer can try to lower the political temperature, his practical options for curbing English Channel crossings are limited. He plans to crack down on people-smuggling gangs, but, unless Britain strikes a new migration deal with France, recent experience suggests that step alone is unlikely to resolve the problem.
One thing the government intends to do is to speed up the system for processing asylum requests to cut the number of would-be refugees accommodated in hotels at public expense — a source of grievance to anti-immigrant protesters. (Asylum-seekers tend to be accommodated in less wealthy areas where hotel costs are lower, making them a particular target in the recent riots.)
The fact that many more people have been allowed to enter the country legally has created another issue that has been weaponized by the far right, presenting Starmer with another big challenge.
Successive Conservative governments promised but failed to reduce annual legal net immigration to below 100,000, and control of the country’s frontiers was a key issue in a 2016 referendum in which Britons voted for Brexit. Still, since Brexit, legal immigration has tripled, falling back only slightly from its 2022 peak — the highest on record.
Those figures were inflated by programs to accommodate people from Ukraine, Hong Kong and Afghanistan, for which there was wide public support. But Britain also relies heavily on foreign workers to fill jobs in health care and other sectors, and immigration is a driver of economic growth, so cutting it is hard.
“There is broad support for all the immigration that generates the very high numbers,” said Katwala, noting that most people welcomed Ukrainians and are happy for foreign workers to fill vacancies in British hospitals, “but then concern about the scale of the number.”
Before losing last month’s general election, Sunak tightened the migration rules, restricting the right of some legal immigrants to bring relatives to Britain. Those changes are expected to push down the numbers over the next year.
Trump calls Harris a ‘communist.’ That shows how worried he is.
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for president, speaks to reporters at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence, in Palm Beach, Fla., Aug. 8, 2024. “Donald Trump has been using an ugly word to describe Vice President Kamala Harris. No, I don’t mean privately calling her the B-word, although he reportedly does. I mean “communist,” an insult echoed by some of his allies,” writes The New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Donald Trump has been using an ugly word to describe Vice President Kamala Harris. No, I don’t mean privately calling her the B-word, although he reportedly does. I mean “communist,” an insult echoed by some of his allies. For example, Elon Musk, in a post on X, declared “Kamala is quite literally a communist,” demonstrating, among other things, that he quite literally doesn’t know the meaning of “literally.”
Now, Harris obviously isn’t a communist. So why does Trump say that she is? Well, red-baiting, like racebaiting — which Trump also does when it comes to Harris — is very much part of the American political tradition. For example, early in his political career, Ronald Reagan was a part of Operation Coffee Cup, an effort to convince voters that government health insurance, in the form of Medicare, would destroy American freedom.
It’s also true that American political discourse lacks a widely accepted term for people who don’t believe that the government should control the means of production but who do believe that we should have policies to limit economic inequality and prevent avoidable hardship. To find such a term you need to go to European countries in which it was important to
distinguish between parties supporting a strong social safety net and Communist parties, which weren’t at all the same thing. In these countries, politicians like Harris, who supports a free-market economy with a robust social safety net, are known as social democrats.
The thing is, social democracy isn’t a radical position. On the contrary, it has been the norm for generations in all wealthy nations, our own included.
True, America’s social safety net is less comprehensive than those in Western Europe. Even so, we have a universal retirement system, Social Security, and universal health care for seniors, Medicare. Medicaid, which provides health care to lower-income Americans, covers around 75 million people. About 7 million are covered by CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program. The Affordable Care Act subsidizes health care for millions more. And so on.
Furthermore, these programs have overwhelming public support. At least three-quarters of registered voters have a favorable view of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The ACA was unpopular when enacted but now has 60% approval.
If you believe that the government shouldn’t be supporting seniors and paying for many Americans’ health care, that’s a philosophically defensible position. And there are certainly activists on the political right who consider just about the whole expansion of government’s role since the New Deal illegitimate. But they have very little support outside their ideological bubble.
Even Friedrich Hayek, whom libertarians have adopted as their intellectual patron saint, conceded that there is no reason “why the state should not help to organize a comprehensive system of social insurance in providing for those common hazards of life against which few can make adequate provision.”
Which brings us back to Harris. She’s a social democrat who favors government programs that mitigate the harshness of a market economy — but so are almost all Democrats, most Americans and, whether they realize it or not, many Republicans. She wants to expand the social safety net, especially for families with children, but the suite of policies she supports wouldn’t represent a fundamental change in the role of government. She has in the past called for single-payer health care but has since backed off that position, and if you think a single-payer system is a radical, un-American idea, what do you think Medicare is?
So where does this Kamala-the-communist stuff come from? It could be that Republicans believe they can convince voters that a moderately center-left Democrat who is a former prosecutor is a communist because she’s a Black woman — a twist, perhaps, on
the “welfare queen” trope of another era.
But it may be less calculating than that. To all appearances, the Trump campaign has been caught flatfooted, first by President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race, then by the surge of Democratic enthusiasm and Harris’ unexpected effectiveness as a campaigner.
Even negative public perceptions of the economy, which have been Trump’s ace in the hole, seem to be evaporating as a political force. A New York Times/Siena College battlegrounds poll released in May gave Trump a 20-point advantage over Biden on the economy; that advantage was down to 6 points over Harris in the latest Times/Siena poll of three battleground states. A new poll by The Financial Times shows Harris slightly ahead on the issue nationally.
Trump and MAGA seem to be responding by throwing lots of stuff at the wall and hoping some of it sticks.
However, the kind of character attacks that worked against Hillary Clinton and, in a different way, against Biden don’t seem to be gaining traction. I almost felt sorry for Fox News host Jesse Watters, who tried to attack Harris by saying, “She likes wine. She likes food. She likes to dance.” This is supposed to make voters dislike her?
So since nothing else seems to be working, hey, why not call her a communist?
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Salinas está listo para afrontar el paso de la tormenta Ernesto
POR EL STAR STAFF
SALINAS – La alcaldesa de Salinas, Karilyn Bonilla Colón, informó en la mañana del martes que conforme al plan establecido para la temporada de huracanes, todos los componentes municipales están activados ante el paso de la tormenta Ernesto, que se estima que afecte a Puerto Rico desde la tarde de martes, hasta hoy miércoles.
“El impacto más significativo para nuestra zona sur será la lluvia, con riesgo de inundaciones, deslizamientos y marejada peligrosa. Es importante que todas las familias que ya tienen su plan de respuesta listo, ofrezcan ayuda a las personas necesitadas en sus comunidades. Nuestro Centro de Operaciones de Emergencia está listo y atendiendo llamadas en
el 787-824-4185”, señaló la alcaldesa. El refugio primario ya está establecido en la Escuela Superior Carlos Colón Burgos.
La alcaldesa proveyó los números telefónicos de los servicios más importantes para la ciudadanía salinense, como el Departamento de la Policía Municipal (787-824-4075), la Oficina de Manejo de Emergencias Municipal (787-824-4185), la estación del Negociado de Bomberos (787-824-2330) y la Policía Estatal (787-824-2020).
De igual manera, los servicios a nivel general son los siguientes: Departamento de la Familia (787-294-4900), LUMA Energy (1-844-888-5862), Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (787803-2482) y Departamento de la Vivienda (787855-4129).
Disponible portal PREPS para información sobre tormenta tropical Ernesto
POR CYBERNEWS
SAN JUAN – El Gobierno de Puerto Rico activó el martes el portal preps.pr.gov, una herramienta de planificación ciudadana y transparencia gubernamental, para brindar información actualizada ante el paso de la tormenta tropical Ernesto, informó el principal ejecutivo de Innovación e Información, Antonio Ramos Guardiola.
“Es imprescindible que los ciudadanos se mantengan informados con datos certeros y oficiales para la toma de decisiones y preparación en el hogar. Este portal está disponible y contiene detalles con informes de las agencias de respuesta ante emergencias”, afirmó
Ramos Guardiola en declaraciones escritas.
Ramos Guardiola, quien también es director ejecutivo de la Oficina de Innovación y Servicios de Tecnología (PRITS), destacó que la plataforma
ha sido actualizada para que los ciudadanos puedan acceder a toda la información relevante para prepararse antes, durante y después de un evento atmosférico o una emergencia desde un solo lugar y de manera sencilla.
El Puerto Rico Emergency Portal System (PREPS) se activa en caso de una declaración de emergencia nacional y proporciona datos en tiempo real sobre servicios básicos como electricidad, agua, salud y refugios, además de mostrar la preparación de las agencias del Gobierno de Puerto Rico antes, durante y después del paso del fenómeno atmosférico, así como en las fases de rescate y recuperación.
Suspende labores Servicios Legales de Puerto Rico
POR CYBERNEWS
SAN JUAN – La directora ejecutiva de Servicios Legales de Puerto Rico (SLPR), licenciada Hadassa Santini Colberg, informó que, debido al paso de la tormenta Ernesto, los 15 Centros de Servicio Directo, el Sistema de Entrevista Centralizado y Teleabogado no operarán durante la tarde de martes ni el miércoles 14 de agosto. Las labores se reanudarán el jueves 15 de agosto en el horario regular.
“Como medida preventiva para asegurar la vida y la propiedad, suspendemos las labores de la organización. Las personas que estaban citadas para recibir servicios hoy martes en la tarde y mañana miércoles serán notificadas de sus nuevas citas. Sin embargo, nuestros abogados y abogadas comparecerán a las vistas según estén señaladas por los Tribunales,” añadió Santini Colberg.
La directora ejecutiva exhortó a la ciudadanía y al personal de SLPR a mantenerse atentos a los medios de comunicación y redes sociales para infor-
mación actualizada, en caso de que sea necesario tomar medidas adicionales. Además, a través del Sistema de Entrevista Centralizado, cuyo número es 787-728-5070, los clientes pueden conocer sobre las operaciones de la organización. Por su parte, los empleados pueden llamar al 787-945-7535 para informarse sobre los planes de continuidad de los trabajos de la organización. Se prevé que los servicios puedan reanudarse el jueves. Los Centros de Servicio Directo están ubicados en Aguadilla, Aibonito, Arecibo, Bayamón, Caguas, Carolina, Fajardo, Guayama, Humacao, Manatí, Mayagüez, Ponce, Río Piedras, Sabana Grande y Utuado.
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Know what’s funny about getting old? These movies do.
By ESTHER ZUCKERMAN
There are two new films this year in which Academy Award-nominated actresses in their 70s whip out tiny sex toys. In “Summer Camp,” Kathy Bates offers up wee vibrators to Alfre Woodard and Diane Keaton. In “The Fabulous Four,” it’s Bette Midler giving Susan Sarandon a kegel ball that she later flings at a bike thief.
You might confuse these comedies with “Book Club” (2018), where Keaton, again, finds herself in the company of fellow older luminaries (Jane Fonda, Mary Steenburgen and Candice Bergen). Or with “Poms” (2019), which places Keaton on a retirement community cheer squad with Jacki Weaver, Rhea Perlman and Pam Grier. Then, again, there’s also “80 for Brady” (2023), where Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Sally Field and Rita Moreno go to the Super Bowl.
Though the circumstances are different, the similarities in plot, casting and themes make the films easy to classify but tough to label. “Legendary ladies of cinema do a light romp,” is a little long; “Old lady comedies” might seem demeaning, but that is, essentially, how the films identify themselves. In the “80 for Brady” trailer, Moreno sums it up by saying: “The Super Bowl is no place for four old women.”
Regardless of the label, this growing genre of star-studded comedies has become popular in recent years, with “Four,” which hit theaters Friday, becoming the latest installment in the canon.
You can usually see the same types of characters in each film. At least one of the women is a stick in the mud. In “The Fabulous Four,” that’s Sarandon’s job. As Lou, she’s a serious doctor who loves cats and is holding a grudge against Midler’s character over a long-ago offense. Often Keaton, with her turtlenecks, is the most uptight of her group. And Fonda, when she appears, plays sexually adventurous characters, prone to making offcolor jokes. Megan Mullally has that gig in “Four,” with an assist from the famously bawdy Midler. There are usually high jinks involving behavior that one might not expect from seniors. They get high. They go on adventurous excursions like parasailing or ziplining. They experiment with technology and social media. (“The Fabulous Four” has a whole bit about Midler on TikTok.)
The films starring women are generally light as air, even when they add some poignancy into the mix while grappling with health
issues or the death of a spouse. Given the ages of the protagonists, the overarching messages tend to be about embracing life to the fullest, despite society telling you otherwise. And though the actresses involved are highly decorated, these movies rarely garner critical recognition, so why the influx?
“I think that people love these movies,” said Alex Saks, a producer who has worked on “Book Club,” “Poms” and “Summer Camp.” “Executives love these movies, and so whenever we’re given a reason to believe in them, people want to take it,”
The “Book Club” script first crossed Saks’ path about a decade ago when she was working as an agent. She said she was drawn to it in part because of her love of “The First Wives Club,” the 1996 comedy starring Midler, Keaton and Goldie Hawn as three divorced women scheming against their exhusbands. The film is a predecessor of these projects in multiple ways, with a similar cast, that at that time, was already seen as older. They also owe their existence to the success of Nancy Meyers films like “Something’s Gotta Give,” which found Keaton engaging in latein-life romance.
Saks believed in “Book Club” on a personal level, she said: “I knew that movies that were good like this could become iconic and re-watched the way that ‘First Wives Club’ was.”
Filmmakers understand the appeal of
projects like these, even when they aren’t necessarily the kind of film that would be in their wheelhouses. Take, for instance, the director of “80 for Brady,” Kyle Marvin, who previously worked on indie films, like “The Climb,” which he starred in and co-wrote. Marvin told me his motivation for coming on board “80 for Brady” was selfish. “It was a chance to work with legends,” he said. “Those women are hands down some of the greatest comedians of my childhood.”
Australian director Jocelyn Moorhouse, who directed “The Fabulous Four,” had a similar sentiment. “The idea of working with actresses in that age group, which basically contains some absolute icons, got me very excited,” she said. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, if I could get somebody like Susan Sarandon or, amazingly, if I could ever get Bette Midler to do it, this would be incredible.’ And then they said yes.”
There’s also a belief among some in the industry that there’s an audience for these kinds of movies, and it’s willing to go to theaters to get its fix. That’s why independent film company Bleecker Street signed on to “The Fabulous Four,” the company’s president, Kent Sanderson, said in an interview.
“What makes something like this appeal to us as financiers and distributors, is that this is a movie we think a certain generation is going to want to go to to experience communally,” he said.
Though “80 for Brady” was originally acquired by Paramount for streaming, Marvin said he was confident in its theatrical potential. “We were told as we started that that community wouldn’t show up because it was postCOVID,” Marvin said. “And they were saying theater for this generation is dead. We really believe in theatrical and thought, ‘There’s no way that’s true.’”
“80 for Brady” didn’t come close to the haul of “Book Club,” also distributed by Paramount, which grossed over $104 million worldwide, but it did perform better than expected at the box office with a $12.5 million opening weekend and an ultimate gross of over $40 million worldwide. This isn’t the fate of all of these films, however. “Summer Camp,” released by Roadside, had a haul that was only a little over $2 million. Saks noted that the marketing budget for that movie was millions of dollars less than that for “Book Club.”
“You hope that word of mouth and all of it takes off, but I think post-COVID it’s harder and there’s a lot of distraction,” she said. Diversion, however, is the intention behind these films. The directors I spoke with all insisted that while their movies touch on serious topics related to aging, their main goal is goofiness. And they are certainly goofy; you can’t think too hard about any one detail because plot holes abound. In fact, Moorhouse admitted she chose not to overthink the fact that Mullally and Sheryl Lee Ralph are significantly younger than Midler and Sarandon, for instance. Instead, she just altered the screenplay so the characters didn’t all go to college together.
Even with those incongruities, it’s easy to see how there is something comforting about seeing these collections of faces on-screen, engaging in ridiculous behavior.
“I think that it is important that we give screen time to, not only legendary ladies, but also to actors that are not your typical leading ladies anymore, people that look real, and that you can really believe and empathize with because the reality is we’re all going to be getting older,” said Castille Landon, director of “Summer Camp.” “It’s important that we see people having fun. It’s not rocket science.”
That’s how you end up with multiple musical numbers dropped into “The Fabulous Four.” Moorhouse thought: If you can, why not have Midler and Ralph harmonize?
“This is a fun, silly movie,” Moorhouse said. “I want people to have fun watching it. I certainly had fun making it.”
In “80 for Brady” (2023), Rita Moreno, in the foreground, Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda and Sally Field go to the Super Bowl. (Paramount Pictures)
Should you get another COVID shot now?
By DANI BLUM
Patients keep asking Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, the same question: Is it time to get another COVID shot?
The virus is circulating at high levels across the country. That might suggest it’s prime time for another dose of protection. But updated vaccines that target newer variants of the virus are expected to arrive this fall.
Experts said the right time for your next COVID shot will depend on your health status and what you’re hoping to get from the vaccines.
— If you’re trying to get the most protection against the leading variants:
Doctors say that many people may want to wait for the updated vaccines, which have been retooled to better protect against the current dominant strains of the virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that everyone ages 6 months or older receive an updated shot when they become available.
An upcoming vaccine from biotechnology company Novavax will target JN.1, a coronavirus variant that accounted for the bulk of cases in the United States this winter. The Pfizer and Moderna shots coming this fall will target KP.2, a newer offshoot of JN.1 that’s been circulating this summer. The variants responsible for the largest share of cases in the United States right now, KP.3 and KP.3.1.1, are closely related to KP.2 and JN.1.
The vaccines that are currently available, by contrast, target older omicron variants that fizzled out as JN.1 took hold this past winter.
That doesn’t mean the current shots are ineffective. But when possible, it’s best to get a vaccine that closely matches the variants that are circulating, said Dr. Nathan Lo, an assistant professor of infectious diseases at Stanford University who has studied COVID vaccines.
— If you are at higher risk for severe disease:
A CDC spokesperson said that certain groups of people at higher risk for severe disease might benefit from getting a shot this summer, before the updated vaccines are
available. That includes those who are 65 or older, are pregnant, are immunocompromised or have certain underlying medical conditions, or who live in long-term care facilities.
Those who have never been vaccinated against COVID may also benefit from doing so now, rather than waiting for the fall.
Getting a shot now might mean you can’t get an updated vaccine right when it comes out, because the doses need to be spaced out. Health officials are expected to issue guidance on how long someone should wait between vaccines when the new shots become available. In the meantime, people who are at high risk should talk with their doctors about the ideal interval between vaccines, said Fikadu Tafesse, a virus expert at Oregon Health & Science University.
— If you were recently infected:
Getting vaccinated too soon after an infection or previous shot likely won’t give you much of an added benefit, said Aubree Gordon, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Michigan. The CDC has previously said that if you recently had COVID, you can wait three months before getting a dose of the vaccine.
And because the variants spreading this summer are closely related to one another, a recent COVID infection will likely offer substantial protection against the most com-
mon strains circulating now.
— If you are trying to avoid getting sick before a big event:
Chin-Hong said he often hears from patients who have weddings or summer travel coming up, and they want to know if vaccines will reduce their chances of getting sick and having to cancel. Getting vaccinated with the currently available shots would likely lower your risk of a COVID infection for several weeks, he said.
“It will give you more confidence that your plans won’t be disrupted,” Chin-Hong said. (Keep in mind that it takes a week or two for the antibodies to ramp up.)
Beyond that, vaccines will continue to guard against serious disease, hospitalization, death and long COVID for months. Data from the CDC has shown that people who received an updated vaccine after they became available last year were roughly 54% less likely to get COVID from mid-September 2023 to January 2024.
Those who do get a shot now may still want to get the updated vaccine down the line in a few months, Chin-Hong said. Whether or not you get the vaccine now, he said, you will definitely want added protection heading into the colder months, when cases are expected to rise even further.
“I’m more worried about this winter than this summer,” he said.
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This easy tomato-watermelon salad will help you beat the heat
By MELISSA CLARK
Iwas raised to believe in savory tomato salads. My mother ritually dressed them with garlicky, mustardy vinaigrettes, heavy on the tang, with pungent notes from olives, blue cheese, anchovies or canned tuna. The sweetest thing I ever saw paired with raw tomatoes during my childhood was corn, but only once. It was an article of faith for my mom that it was a cook’s duty to add contrast — and tomatoes were already sweet.
I lived by this credo for decades — until one hot August afternoon when I was introduced to my very first tomato-watermelon salad in a friend’s backyard. There was grilled rare steak, buttered corn, bowls of fresh blueberries. But I only had eyes for the giant mound of sunset-hued salad gleaming like rubies in the sun.
From the first bite, I felt my world shift. With the mellow chunks of watermelon now anchoring the sweetness, the tomatoes were free to reveal their savory side, flaunting an almost mineral edge under their flurry of flaky salt. Finished with good olive oil and a scattering of herbs, it was still a salad of contrasts, just of a gentler sort. And I’ve been creating versions ever since.
There are three simple tenets for making tomato-watermelon salads. First, choose the ripest produce you can get. Then, salt the tomatoes — but not the watermelon — at least 15 minutes before assembly. Salting seasons the tomatoes thoroughly and brings out their juices, which mingle with the dressing and flesh it out. Finally, add the dressing slowly and sparingly; the succulent fruit doesn’t need much.
Taking a cue from my mother’s love of the sharp note, for this iteration, I added anchovies. Not whole, obvious anchovies, which can be divisive, but discreetly melted into olive oil with some garlic. Then I used the sizzling fat to toast a handful of breadcrumbs, which I sprinkled over the watermelon and tomatoes along with sliced olives and red onion. The result is a sweet and briny salad, with a mingling of textures: soft, crunchy and nubby.
You can make the breadcrumbs a few days in advance, but don’t add them to the salad until just before serving so that they keep their snap. That crisp texture is a crucial counterpoint to the juiciness of the other ingredients. As my mother taught me, it’s a cook’s duty to add contrast.
Tomato-watermelon salad with anchovy breadcrumbs
Slightly sweet and very savory, this juicy, colorful salad is perfect for summer, when tomatoes and watermelon are at their peak. Briefly marinating the tomatoes helps season them thoroughly and draws out their juices, which lend a soft, round note to the tart sherry vinegar in the dressing. Note to anchovy-avoiders: Their presence in the breadcrumbs isn’t obvious or assertive. They melt into the oil,
leaving behind just a hint of their saline, umami character. Serve this as a side dish to grilled or toasted meats or fish. Or, to make it a meal, you can add crumbled goat cheese or feta, but it would also be nice with a can of tuna flaked over the top or some chickpeas mixed in.
Yield: 4 servings
Total time: 30 minutes
Ingredients:
1 pound mixed tomatoes, large tomatoes cut into 1-inch wedges, cherry and grape tomatoes halved (about 2 1/2 cups)
1/2 teaspoon red-pepper flakes
1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt, more as needed
5 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, more for drizzling
1 garlic clove, grated or finely minced
2 anchovies, chopped
1/2 cup panko breadcrumbs
1 1/2 tablespoons sherry vinegar, more to taste
3/4 cup diced watermelon (1/2-inch pieces)
1/2 cup Kalamata olives, pitted and coarsely chopped
1/2 cup thinly sliced red onion
1/2 cup torn fresh basil and mint leaves
Feta or goat cheese, crumbled on top (optional)
Preparation:
1. Add cut tomatoes to a medium bowl. Stir in 1/4 teaspoon red-pepper flakes and a pinch of salt. Let marinate for 15 minutes to draw out the juices.
2. Meanwhile, heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large skillet over medium. Stir in garlic, remaining1/4 teaspoon
red-pepper flakes, chopped anchovies and a small pinch of salt. Let the anchovies bubble and melt into the oil, about 2 minutes.
3. Stir in the breadcrumbs until evenly coated in the anchovy mixture. Toast, stirring until the crumbs are golden brown (careful, you don’t want the garlic to burn), about 2 to 3 minutes. Pour crumbs into a bowl, tossing to cool them. Taste and season with salt if needed.
4. In a small bowl, whisk 1/2 teaspoon salt into the sherry vinegar. Whisk in remaining 3 tablespoons olive oil until the vinaigrette emulsifies. Taste for and add more salt or vinegar if needed.
5. Add the watermelon, olives and red onion to tomatoes. Toss with some of the vinaigrette, adding more gradually as needed. The vinaigrette should coat the salad well but not overwhelm it. Spoon the salad onto a platter. Scatter basil and mint on top. Sprinkle with anchovy breadcrumbs at the last minute so that they remain crisp, and top with crumbled feta or goat cheese if you like.
Tomato-watermelon salad with anchovy bread crumbs. This simple, colorful salad from Melissa Clark features a mix of salted tomatoes, juicy watermelon and crisp anchovy bread crumbs. Food styled by Simon Andrews. (David Malosh/ The New York Times)
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Heat raises fears of ‘demise’ for Great Barrier Reef within a generation
In an image provided by researchers, bleached corals near Heron Island at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef. This generation will probably see the demise of the Great Barrier Reef unless humanity acts with far more urgency to rein in climate change, according to scientists in Australia who released new research on heat in the surrounding ocean. (Ove Hoegh-Guldberg via The New York Times)
By CATRIN EINHORN
This generation will probably see the demise of the Great Barrier Reef unless humanity acts with far more urgency to rein in climate change, according to scientists in Australia who released new research on heat in the surrounding ocean.
The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world and is often called the largest living structure on Earth. The study, published last Wednesday in the journal Nature, found that recent extreme temperatures in the Coral Sea are at their highest in at least 400 years, as far back as their analysis could reach.
It included modeling that showed what has been driving those extremes: Greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans burning fossil fuels and destroying natural places that store carbon, like forests.
“The heat extremes are occurring too often for those corals to effectively adapt and evolve,” said Ben Henley, a paleoclimatologist at the University of Melbourne and an author of the new study. “If we don’t divert from our current course, our generation will likely witness the demise of one of Earth’s great natural wonders, the Great Barrier Reef.”
The study’s scientific prose put it this way: “The existential threat to the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem from anthropogenic climate change is now realized.”
Tanya Plibersek, Australia’s environment minister, said in a statement that the government understood its responsi-
bility to act on climate change and safeguard the reef. She pointed to a recent law that calls for a 43% reduction of emissions by 2030 and to $1.2 billion in measures to protect the reef.
All coral reefs are in danger from global warming, scientists say. Too much heat causes coral to bleach, meaning they lose the symbiotic algae they need to survive. If conditions don’t improve quickly enough, the coral die.
The new research comes as the world’s reefs are in the grips of the most widespread bleaching event on record. From January 2023 to August 2024, 74% of the ocean’s reef area has experienced bleaching-level heat stress, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coral Reef Watch. The previous record, which occurred between 2014 and 2017, was 65.7%.
Coral reefs support an estimated quarter of marine species, protect coasts from storms and underpin activities like fishing and tourism. Their economic value has been estimated at $2.7 trillion a year.
Henley recalled snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef as a boy with his father. “You can’t even take in the diversity,” he said. “It’s a kaleidoscope of color, it’s absolutely spectacular.”
When the Great Barrier Reef experienced back-toback bleaching in 2016 and 2017, Henley and colleagues wondered what kind of temperatures it had weathered before records were kept.
To look back as far as possible, they used data from
samples of the oldest living corals measured, about 400 years old.
“It’s like finding centenarians in humans, there’s not that many of them,” said Helen McGregor, a professor of paleoclimatology at the University of Wollongong and one of the study’s authors.
Using the chemical signatures in those limestone cores, combined with historical records from ships, contemporary data sets and modeling, the team re-created four centuries of sea surface temperatures in the Coral Sea.
As they worked, mass bleaching kept hitting the Great Barrier Reef: In 2020, 2022, and then 2024, when global ocean heat shattered records. The researchers kept adding in the data.
“It’s a stunningly important summary of the history of the world’s largest reef system,” said Stephen Palumbi, a professor of marine biology at Stanford University who led a committee on coral resilience for the National Academy of Sciences and was not involved with the study. “The paper lays out the danger that corals all around the world face from this heat.”
But Palumbi also wondered if some hope was to be found in a temperature spike the authors identified during the 1700s, when the water appears to have been almost as warm as it is now. Could that mean certain corals in the Great Barrier Reef have survived similar circumstances in the past?
“Maybe these elders of the reef are better adapted to warmer water than the younglings born in 1920 or so,” Palumbi said. If so, they would be the ones to target in helping to breed more heat-resistant corals.
There is a split among coral experts over how useful selective breeding and other assistance from humans can be in the face of climate change.
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, an author of the study and a coral scientist who has been sounding alarms about the effects of climate change on reefs for decades, said he didn’t think such attempts could work at scale, in part because of the astronomical expense.
Instead, he said, efforts should be focused on cutting greenhouse gas emissions to zero as quickly as possible, and to protecting the reefs that are faring better as the oceans heat.
“They become the spawning reefs, the ones that will recover things in the future,” Hoegh-Guldberg said. “And that seems to be helpful in terms of the psychology of the situation. We can do something, but it’s also practical.”
Reefs will crash to very low levels but will come back in hundreds or thousands of years, Hoegh-Guldberg predicted.
As Henley, who snorkeled on the Great Barrier Reef with his father, reflected on the future, he thought of his 2-year-old daughter.
“In her childhood years the reef is likely to see immense destruction,” he said. But if global action can hold warming to the low end of global targets, “there’s a reasonable chance that my daughter and her generation can still marvel at the reef in their lifetimes.”
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Is a Disney theme park vacation still worth the price?
By TARIRO MZEZEWA
Earlier this year, Jake Williams, a filmmaker and content creator in Toronto, made his long-awaited return to one of his favorite places on Earth: Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. After traveling to Disney World and Disneyland multiple times a year since childhood and becoming an annual pass holder as an adult, Williams hadn’t been to a Disney park since 2019.
“As someone who went all the time, it’s crazy to me that I hadn’t gone to a Disney park in that long,” he said in a phone interview. “It’s a special place.”
Before his trip, Williams heard about some changes at Disney World, but he didn’t anticipate how different things would be, starting at the airport. Since his last visit, the company had gotten rid of the Magical Express, a free bus that for more than 15 years shuttled people from Orlando International Airport to their Disney resorts. Guests must now take a shuttle that costs $23 to $30 per adult each way, depending on the time of year, use a ride-share service or rent a car.
To Disney-goers, the end of the Magical Express speaks to a larger issue: The cost of being at the happiest place on Earth is going up while the perks are going away. As the company has raised the price of tickets and hotel rooms, and added costly, difficult-tonavigate tools to book rides as replacements for previously free products, even its most loyal fans are asking themselves if it’s still worth it.
Guests splash down on the Tiana’s Bayou Adventure flume ride at Disney’s Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., June 3, 2024. As Disney has raised the cost of tickets and hotel rooms at its theme parks, and added pricey, difficult-to-navigate tools, even its most loyal fans are asking themselves if they should rethink their vacations. (Todd Anderson/The New York Times)
Williams said that a day in the Orlando parks and a one-night stay at Disney’s Port Orleans Riverside Resort cost a “jaw-dropping” $886.34 for two adults. He decided to calculate how much the same trip cost in 2017 — a year when he visited the park several times. The cost: $567.90. Even accounting for inflation, he was stunned.
“It’s hard to justify going to Orlando rather than, like, Iceland,” he said. “When you have a budget like this, you can go a lot of places and see and do a lot of things. You could even do a Disney cruise for less than that.”
Epcot’s Italy, or Italy?
He’s not alone. Len Testa, president of Touring Plans, a site that helps travelers organize Disney trips, and a coauthor of “The Unofficial Guides to Walt Disney World and Disneyland,” said that he increasingly hears from Disney lovers who are now planning other types of vacations.
“At some point a Disney vacation starts competing with ‘Let’s go see Europe,’ and I think that’s what a lot of people are doing,” Testa said. “I’ve had a number of
people in the last few years say, ‘We priced it out and we could take our children to eat pizza in the Italy pavilion in Epcot or for the same money we could actually go to Italy for two weeks. We’re going to go to Italy for two weeks.’”
The prices of parking and entry tickets have consistently risen in recent years. In 2022, ticket prices went up two times. In 2023, annual passes saw a $30 to $50 increase, depending on the tier, while multiday tickets also went up. A one-day ticket to either of Disney’s U.S. parks now costs $109 for anyone over the age of 10.
In an email, a spokesperson for Disney said the company is always trying to offer guests an array of tickets and experiences. To the company, and its most loyal fans, she said, the value of the experiences is worth the price.
“We are purposeful about creating more ticket and hotel price points than ever before to provide guests a
variety of opportunities to visit our parks,” she said, adding that “a visit to a Disney theme park is a 10- to 16-hour experience with attractions, entertainment and more.”
Apps overload
For many guests, price isn’t the only hurdle. Visitors now have to navigate several new apps and tools if they want the best chance at getting on the most popular rides. In the past, they could get a free FastPass, which allowed them to go to the front of a line for a ride. In 2021, Disney replaced the FastPass with a digital feature called Genie+ that parkgoers had to pay for and that was supposed to make booking rides more efficient. Instead, it caused so much confusion that content creators started making videos that showed viewers how to “hack” the tool.
To get the best out of Genie+, guests had to buy the app early in the morning (avid parkgoers recommended doing so at 6 a.m.) and then, at 7 a.m., they would book rides for the day. They could only book more rides after they’d completed their first activity or two hours after making their first reservation. And they couldn’t choose what time they wanted to get on a ride — Genie+ would do it for them. Testa said all of this led to “Disney complexity fatigue.”
“God forbid on your vacation, you want to go back to your hotel and take a nap,” Testa said. Others said having to always be on their phones took away from the experience of being on vacation.
Disney heard the complaints. In June, Genie+ became Lightning Lane Multi Pass, which makes it possible for people to reserve rides ahead of time, instead of on the day they are in the park. The new system, which starts at $30 a day, is an attempt at mixing Genie+ and FastPass, but only those willing to pay extra can use all the features. The Disney spokesperson said that so far, guests are “very pleased” with Lightning Lane Multi Pass. Reviews on social media show that it may be too soon to tell. On Reddit, reviewers lamented the different prices for Lightning Lane passes, with one person saying she “despised the process” of booking in the neGreg Antonelle, the managing director of MickeyTravels, a travel agency that focuses on booking Disney trips, said his company is having a great year, with travelers looking to experience new rides like Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, which replaced the old Splash Mountain ride. He said that complaining about Disney is par for the course.
“We’ve been in business for 13 years and we’ve heard complaints about cost for 13 years,” Antonelle said. “It’s nothing new.”
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RÚSTICA: Solar A en el Barrio Piedras Blancas de Aguada, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de quinientos treinta y seis punto cinco mil doscientos trece (536.5213) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con solar segregado de Braulio Sánchez; por el Sur, con el remanente del cual se segrega; por el Este, con Efraín Villarrubia; y por el Oeste, con carretera número cuatrocientos dieciséis (416) que conduce del Barrio Laguna de Aguada. Inscrita al folio doscientos treinta y ocho (238) del tomo ciento noventa y tres (193) de Aguada, finca número diez mil setecientos diez (10.710). Registro de la Propiedad de Aguadilla. Dirección Física: 416 KM 2 0 BO PIEDRAS BLANCAS, AGUADA Puerto Rico 00602. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 3 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $152,600.32 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el 10 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $101,733.54. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una
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SECRETARIO DE JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERO RICO Demandado Civil Núm.: FA2019CV00670. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 12 de julio de 2024, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Radicada en el barrio Mameyes del término municipal de Luquillo, Puerto Rico, compuesta de 5.3 cuerdas, equivalentes a dos hectáreas, ocho áreas y veintinueve centímetros cuadrados, en lindes al Norte, con carretera estatal #968 que conduce a Mameyes; al Sur, finca principal de la cual se segrega, propiedad de Tomás Ramírez; al Este, con parcela de terreno segregada de dicha finca principal y vendida a Edwin Fendentz y al Oeste, con parcela segregada de la finca principal y vendida a Norman Halvorsen. Consta inscrita al folio 18 del tomo 45 de Luquillo, finca 1720, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada y notificada en este caso el 4 de marzo de 2024 a saber la suma de $205,117.60 de principal, 4.99% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $914.10 de cargos por demora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; mas costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 3 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el
Centro Judicial de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $227,297.40. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 10 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $151,531.60, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 17 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $113,648.70, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Artículo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía,
el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de julio de 2024. SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL #737, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO. JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO #622. ***
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERIO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE SABANA GRANDE COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE CABO ROJO Parte Demandante Vs. MIGUEL ALFONSO ATRESINO Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SB2024CV00061. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: MIGUEL ALFONSO ATRESINO. Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. José F. Giraud Mejías ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamiento y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la última dirección postal conocida Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico 00637. En dicha demanda se le reclama la suma de $1,832.59 por concepto de tarjeta de crédito. Puede usted obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito
que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en San Germán, Puerto Rico, hoy 15 de julio de 2024. NORMA SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA GENERAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA MUNICIPAL DE SABANA GRANDE. AUREA LUGO ALMODOVAR, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO. COMPU-LINK CORPORATION
DBA CELINK DEMANDANTE VS. SUCESIÓN DE MARLYN COLÓN PEREZ T/C/C MARLING COLON
PEREZ, COMPUESTA POR MARLYN SILVA COLÓN, HELEN SILVA, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE
DESCONOCIDO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM: GB2023CV00042. SOBRE: Ejecución de Hipoteca In Rem (Hipoteca Revertida). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL A: SUCESIÓN DE MARLYN COLÓN PEREZ T/C/C MARLING COLON
PEREZ, COMPUESTA
POR MARLYN SILVA COLÓN, HELEN SILVA, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE
DESCONOCIDO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE
AMÉRICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Yo, HUGO BASCO MEDINA, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 10 de septiembre de 2024, a las 11:00 de la mañana en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 11 de junio de 2024. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 17 de septiembre de 2024, a las 11:00 de la mañana; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 24 de septiembre de 2024, a las 11:00 de la mañana en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 30 de julio de 2024, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento catorce “F” (14-”F”). Es un apartamento residencial de forma irregular que está localizado en el piso décimo cuarto (14to) del Edificio “Condominio Santa Ana”, situado en la Carretera Estatal número diez y nueve (19) esquina Calle “A”, Villa Caparra, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Que mide cincuenta y seis pies cero pulgadas (56’0”) de largo, por su parte más larga, por treinta y un pies diez pulgadas (31’10”) de ancho, por su parte más ancho, que hacen un área de mil trescientos cuarenta y cuatro (1,344) pies cuadrados, aproximadamente, equivalentes a ciento veinte y cuatro punto noventa (124.90) metros
cuadrados, aproximadamente, siendo sus linderos y distancias los siguientes: por el NORTE, en una línea quebrada de una distancia de treinta y un pies diez pulgadas (31’10”), con el espacio exterior que mira hacia el área de estacionamiento, el patio lateral y la Calle “A”, separado por paredes exteriores y la baranda del área de lavandería; por el SUR, en una distancia de trece pies una pulgada (13’1”), con el Apartamento catorce “D” (14 D), separado por una pared interior, en una distancia de cuatro pies diez pulgadas (4’10”), con el corredor común, separado por la puerta de entrada y pared interior y en una distancia de ocho pies seis pulgadas (8’6”), con el pozo de elevadores, separado por una pared interior; por el ESTE, en una línea quebrada de una distancia de cincuenta y seis pies cero pulgadas (56’0”), con el espacio exterior que mira hacia el patio delantero y a la Carretera Estatal número diez y nueve (19), separado por ventanas, paredes exteriores y baranda de la terraza; por el OESTE, en una distancia de cinco pies siete pulgadas (5’7”), con el corredor común, separado por una pared interior, en una distancia de seis pies ocho pulgadas (6’8”), con el pozo de los elevadores, separado por una pared interior, en una distancia de diez y siete pies diez pulgadas (17’10”), con el Apartamento catorce “E” (14-”E”), separado por una pared interior y en una distancia de veinte y cinco pies once pulgadas (25’11”), con el espacio exterior que mira hacia el área de estacionamiento, el patio posterior y la propiedad adyacente, separado por pared exterior y ventanas. Este apartamento consta de “foyer” con closet, sala, comedor, dos dormitorios con sus respectivos closets, pasillo de comunicación baño con “linen” closet baño para uso del dormitorio principal, cocina, terraza y terraza de servicio con lavandería. El baño general está equipado con bañera, lavamanos, servicio sanitario y bidé. La cocina está equipada con “counter”, gabinetes, estufa con su horno, fregadero y triturador de desperdicios. La terraza de servicio y lavandería está equipada con calentador y lavadero. La puerta de entrada de este apartamiento está situada en su lindero Sur y por ella se sale al corredor o vestíbulo de elevadores, por el cual se sale al exterior. Le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes equivalentes a cero punto setecientos noventa y cinco milésimas (0.795%) por ciento. Le corresponde el área de estacionamiento señalado con el número catorce “F” (14
F) soterrado. Finca Número 22,593, inscrita al folio 151 del tomo 553 de Guaynabo. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guaynabo. Dirección de la Propiedad: Apt. F-14, Santa Ana Condominium, Guaynabo, PR 00966.La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $231,000.00 en concepto de principal con interés al 3.68% anual, los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $23,100.00 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 55 otorgada el día 2 de febrero de 2009, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Raúl Rivera Burgos y consta inscrita al folio 183 del tomo 1,247 de Guaynabo, finca número 22,593, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo, Sección II de Guaynabo. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal
de $346,000.00, con intereses al 3.68% anual, vencedero el día 27 de septiembre de 2083, constituida mediante la escritura número 56, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 2 de febrero de 2009, ante el notario Raúl Rivera Burgos, e inscrita al folio 183 del tomo 1,247 de Guaynabo, finca número 22,593, inscripción 12ma. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $231,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $154,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $115,500.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y
para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio 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 vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, a 2 de AGOSTO de 2024. HUGO BASCO MEDINA #807, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAROLINA.
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Parte Demandante Vs. JULIO DEL ROSARIO MEJIA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV02843. 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: JULIO DEL ROSARIO MEJIA163 CALLE PACHIN
MARIN BDA LAS MONJAS, SAN JUAN PR 00917. 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/tribunal-electronico, 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@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de junio de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Demandante Vs. HARRY ROMERO RODRÍGUEZ
Demandado Civil Núm.: CA2024CV01166. Salón: 408. 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: HARRY ROMERO RODRÍGUEZ - URB EDUARDO J SALDANA D37 CALLE LAS MARIAS, CAROLINA PR 00983. 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 ejer-
cicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Gabriel Antonio Ramos Colón cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 12 de junio de 2024. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 12 de junio de 2024. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ma SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Jan Miguel Otero Martínez cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jan.otero@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de junio de 2024. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 11 de junio de 2024. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA.
MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Demandante Vs. EILEEN M
BERDECIA CAMACHO
Demandado
Civil Núm.: VI2024CV00018. Salón: 1. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: EILEEN M BERDECIA CAMACHO - HC 1 BOX 3415, VILLALBA, PR, 00745 / 7151 WOODLAKE PKWY UNIT 406, SAN ANTONIO, TX, 78218. 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/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en Ia 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. Jan Miguel Otero Martínez cu-
yas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a Ia dirección jan. otero@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Orocovis, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de junio de 2024. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. ANYBELL DÍAZ TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE ADOLFO GUTIÉRREZ VÁZQUEZ, COMPUESTA POR JOHANN GUTIÉRREZ STELLA, IVONNE GUTIÉRREZ
STELLA Y ADOLFO GUTIÉRREZ STELLA; Y LA SUCESIÓN DE IVETTE STELLA PÉREZ, COMPUESTA POR FRANCES
JEANNETTE PASCUAL STELLA, IVONNE ANETTE GUTIÉRREZ
STELLA, ADOLFO MANUEL GUTIÉRREZ
STELLA Y JOHANNA GUTIÉRREZ STELLA; ADMINISTRACIÓN PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: BY2021CV03434. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO Y NOTIFICACIÓN DE INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: IVONNE GUTIERREZ STELLA Y ADOLFO
GUTIERREZ STELLA, POR SI Y COMO
MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE IVETTE STELLA PÉREZ.
POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través
del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda. Marjaliisa Colón Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732: Teléfono: 787-843-4168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de octubre de 2019, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a $121,594.72 de principal, más los intereses al 3.25% anual, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo la suma estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número doscientos quince (215) del bloque P guión ocho (8) en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Juan Ponce de León, Barrio Frailes de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, compuesto de trescientos veinticinco punto cero (325.00) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en trece punto cero (13.00) metros, con el solar número doscientos (200); por el SUR, en igual medida, con la calle número veinticinco (25); por el ESTE, en veinticinco punto cero (25.00) metros, con el solar número doscientos catorce (214); y por el OESTE, en igual medida, con el solar número docentes dieciséis (216). Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio ciento cuarenta y uno (141) del tomo ciento cuarenta y seis (146) de Guaynabo, finca número once mil ocho (11,008), Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. SE LES APERCIBE que, de no
hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Además, como miembro de la Sucesión de Ivette Stella Pérez se ha presentado una solicitud de interpelación judicial para que sirva en el término de treinta (30) días aceptar o repudiar la herencia. Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted a expresarse dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto en torno a la aceptación o repudiación de la herencia, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante Ivette Stella Pérez y, por consiguiente, responderán por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Art. 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. S2785. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, a 30 de julio de 2024.
LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DIAMAR T. GONZÁLEZ
BARRETO, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL II.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO.
REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC. Demandante Vs. THE MONEY HOUSE, INC.; JAMES B. NUTTER & COMPANY; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARE EXTRAVIADO Demandados ROBERTO
ROSADO MORAN Parte con Interés Civil Núm.: HU2024CV00896. Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: JAMES B. NUTTER & COMPANY; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. En dicha demanda se reclama la Sustitución de un pagaré otor-
gado el 29 de septiembre de 2008, a favor de THE MONEY HOUSE, INC., por la suma principal de $163,000.00, más intereses al 3.69% anual y otros créditos accesorios, vencedero el 20 de febrero de 2095. Para garantizar dicho pagaré se constituyó hipoteca voluntaria mediante la escritura número 418, otorgada el 29 de septiembre de 2008, ante el Notario Luis Rafael Rodríguez Vélez, sobre el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar 4 radicado en el Barrio Montones del término municipal de Las Piedras, con una cabida superficial de 604.00 metros cuadrados y en lindes: por el NORTE, en 40.75 metros con el solar 5; por el SUR, en 40.75 metros con camino municipal; por el ESTE, en 16.00 metros con carretera municipal; y por el OESTE, en 14.00 metros con la finca principal de la cual se segrega. Enclava una edificación en concreto armado a medio construir.” Finca número 7465, inscrita al folio 40 del tomo 146 de Las Piedras, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. La hipoteca antes descrita consta inscrita al folio 749 del tomo 308 de Las Piedras, finca número 7465, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao, inscripción 6ª. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria 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, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Greenspoon Marder, LLP Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622 TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309
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Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 31 de julio de 2024. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. LAURA DE JESÚS GONZÁLEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
CORPORATION, D/B/A CELINK
Demandante Vs. SUCESION CARLOS MANUEL FONSECA
FONTANET T/C/C
CARLOS MANUEL FONCECA FONTANEZ
T/C/C CARLOS M. FONSECA FONTANET
T/C/C CARLOS FONSECA FONTANET COMPUESTA POR CARLOS RAFAEL FONSECA DIAZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION MARIA LUISA DIAZ SANCHEZ T/C/C
MARIA L. DIAZ SANCHEZ T/C/C MARIA DIAZ
SANCHEZ T/C/C MARIA LUISA DIAZ COMPUESTA POR CARLOS RAFAEL
FONSECA DIAZ; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CA2023CV03142. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA PARTE
DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 30 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación:
“URBANA: Parcela de terreno identificada como solar cator-
ce (14) del bloque “BI” de la Urbanización Bosque Lago, radicada en el Barrio Dos Bocas del término municipal de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de trescientos sesenta y ocho punto cero cero (368.00 m.c.) metros. En lindes por el Norte, en dieciséis punto cero cero (16.00 m.) metros, con los solares números dieciséis (16) y diecisiete (17); por el Sur, en dieciséis punto cero cero (16.00 m.) metros, con Court diecinueve (19); por el Este, en veintitrés punto cero cero (23.00 m.) metros, con el solar número trece (13); y por el Oeste, en veintitrés punto cero cero (23.00 m.) metros, con el solar número quince (15). En dicho solar enclava una casa de concreto para una familia.” Finca número 24,810, inscrita al folio 131 del tomo 461 de Trujillo Alto, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 69 del tomo 867 de Trujillo Alto, Finca 24,810, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV, inscripción 6ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. BOSQUE DEL LAGO, BI-14 CALLE PLAZA 19, TRUJILLO ALTO, PR 00976. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: $420,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 2 de marzo de 2080. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $420,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 7 DE OCTUBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $280,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido
originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $210,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 15 DE OCTUBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente la suma de $236,612.41 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $84,555.46 en intereses acumulados al 9 de abril de 2024 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.235% anual hasta su total y completo pago; $13,761.72 de seguro hipotecario; $6,055.00 de cargos por servicio; $1,022.93 de contribuciones; $3,159.00 de seguro; $1,260.00 de tasaciones; $880.00 de inspecciones; $8,284.30 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $42,000.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de julio de 2024. JOSÉ R. CRISTOBAL ORTIZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ENRIQUE VERGÉ HERNÁNDEZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #960.
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Florida wins Double A baseball title after 42-year drought
By THE STAR STAFF
The Florida Titans were crowned on Monday night as the new champions of the Double A Superior Baseball League after beating the Yabucoa Azucareros, 9-5, at Pedro Román Meléndez Stadium in Manatí.
It was Florida’s first championship in 42 years. The new monarchs won the series 4-1, ending a string of four finals that went the maximum of seven games.
“It has been a dream season, having my family present throughout the season,” Titans manager Antonio “Tony” Vega said at the end of the game. “This is a dream come true. For me it is a privilege to bring this championship to the people of Florida, who deserve it so much and who have waited so long for it for so many years.”
A single by Gabriel “Gaby” Ayala and an infield ground ball by Ángel Guzmán gave Florida a 2-0 lead in the first inning. The offensive production continued in the second inning when hits by Daniel Figueroa and Ayala fueled a three-run rally. In the fourth inning, the Titans extended their lead to 7-0 with a single by Juan Carlos Martínez and a sacrifice fly by Guzmán.
Martínez was named Most Valuable Player of the series. His batting average in the five games was .500 with eight hits, six runs scored and four RBIs. He also shone on defense at second base.
Yabucoa’s first run came in the fifth inning with a wild pitch by right-hander Guillermo Gelpi, who notched the win for the Titans, going 5.2 innings. Florida’s mound work was completed by relievers Jonathan Castellanos and Pedro Rodriguez.
In the sixth inning, a home run by Juan Silva added two runs for the Azucareros and in the bottom of the same inning, the Titans responded with two runs of their own to make it 9-3. Yabucoa plated two more runs in the eight for the final tally.
Taking the loss was left-hander Alberto Rosario, who gave up Florida’s first five runs in just 1.1 innings.
At the end of the game, Puerto Rico Baseball Federation President Dr. José Daniel Quiles, presented the championship trophy to team owner Héctor Rivera. He was accompanied by executive director Efraín Williams and the vice president of Brava Lubricants, Julio Rosa.
Caguas to play Manatí in BSN finals after ousting Ponce
By THE STAR STAFF
The Caguas Criollos will face the Manatí Bears in the National Superior Basketball (BSN by its initials in Spanish) finals after defeating the Ponce Lions 75-70 on Sunday to win their semifinal series in six games.
The BSN finals begin Saturday at 8 p.m. in Manatí.
Ponce took an early lead in the first 10 minutes of the game, but the host Criollos turned the tables, dominating the last three periods. Even though Ponce was more efficient on offense, Caguas outscored the Lions by 12 points from beyond the arc while the Criollos finished with a 24-11 advantage in free throws.
During the third period there was a clash between the Lions’ Jordan Bell and Louis King of the Criollos that ended in a fight. After the review both players were expelled
from the game, and three more Ponce players -- Bryon Allen, Luis Rolón and Wil Martínez -- had to join Bell in the locker room for entering the court from the bench at the time of the altercation. The referees’ decision after reviewing the video was four free throws for Caguas and the ball, due to two technical fouls.
As a consequence, the Lions lost four players. With the departure of Bell, Jordan Murphy, Carlos “Yao” López and Aleem Ford had to take the role of big man against the Criollos’ Akil Mitchell, Onzie Branch and Devon Collier.
Travis Trice finished with 21 points, eight rebounds and three assists for Caguas. Collier finished with 13 points and seven rebounds, and Branch added 11 points and six boards.
For the Lions, only Jared Ruiz and Jezreel de Jesús scored in double figures. Ruiz finished with 25 points and eight rebounds, while de Jesús had 19 points, five rebounds and three assists.
The San Juan Daily Star
Florida Titans owner Héctor Rivera hoists the Double A baseball championship trophy on Monday night. (José Espinal)
The Caguas Criollos’ Onzie Branch gestures during a National Superior Basketball semifinal game in Caguas on Sunday night. Caguas beat Ponce to advance to the finals.
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