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Governor to attend annual tourism fair in Spain
“Puerto Rico’s proactive participation in an event of the magnitude of FITUR at an international level is of vital importance ...,” Tourism Company Executive Director Willianette Robles said. (Facebook via Discover Puerto Rico)
By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Jenniffer González Colón will attend the International Tourism Fair (FITUR by its acronym in Spanish) being held in Madrid, Spain, the governor’s office announced Wednesday.
Secretary of State Veronica Ferraiuoli Hornedo is serving as interim governor in González Colón’s absence.
González Colón and Puerto Rico Tourism Co. (CTPR by its initials in Spanish) Executive Director Willianette Robles said Puerto Rico has already begun operations as part of its participation in the latest edition of FITUR.
The global gathering for tourism industry professionals will have representation from 156 countries, where a variety of destinations and companies will be participating. FITUR opened Wednesday and runs through Sunday at the IFEMA exhibition centre in Madrid.
“We have no time to waste; we have to attract investment, enter new markets and strengthen the ones we have if we want a Puerto Rico of opportunities, and tourism is a fundamental part of our economic development,” González Colón said in a written statement. “FITUR is presented as a great opportunity to fulfill this purpose; the number of travel agents, reporters, and international influencers are a window that I know our team at the Tourism Company will know how to maximize.”
Robles added that “Puerto Rico’s proactive participation in an event of the magnitude of FITUR at an international level is of vital importance to maximize our projection as a focal tourist destination in the Caribbean region.”
“In addition, this important tourism fair is a valuable platform for establishing new negotiations and strengthening those already established with airlines, companies and other sectors that influence a significant evolution of the tourism
industry and the economic development of Puerto Rico, in accordance with the objectives of this administration.”
FITUR is the leading tourism industry event in Europe, where the incoming and outgoing markets of Latin America interact, and has an estimated participation of more than 250,000 attendees.
The Puerto Rico exhibitor area is located in Pavilion 3 (Stand 3 B04).
This year’s delegation is made up of: Discover Puerto Rico, Snorkeling Puerto Rico, Residence Inn, HB Travel, RST, San Juan Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino, Verdanza Hotel, IHE, ALMA Hotel, HB Tours, Wyndham Río Mar, ToroVerde, Isla Caribe, Isla Nena Biobay Boat Tours & Borikua Tours, The St. Regis Bahia Beach Resort, Esto es vida Properties, Paulson Puerto Rico, Municipality of San Juan, Municipality of Ponce, Municipality of Caguas, Municipality of Aguadilla, B Travel, Invest Puerto Rico, Aerostar, San Juan Cruise Port, Route Developer, and the House of Representatives and Senate of Puerto Rico, among others.
San Juan in Madrid
For the second consecutive year, the Municipality of San Juan is attending FITUR, this time with its new tourism promotional campaign entitled “Déjate Llevar” (Let Yourself Go).
The capital city’s mission in Madrid will be to strengthen its presence at the fair, seeking to attract the European market and the global public with a proposal that highlights the city’s history, culture and unique diversity.
“We are returning to FITUR with enthusiasm and a clear purpose: to invite the world to discover San Juan, a vibrant city that combines history, modernity and culture,” San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo said during Wednesday’s launch of the campaign. “Our goal is for each visitor to take away an unforgettable experience and, above all, to feel the true spirit of our capital.”
As part of his visit to FITUR, Romero Lugo will hold important meetings with the mayors of Madrid and Seville to exchange views on efforts toward smart cities, micro-networks and walkability.
“We are returning to FITUR with enthusiasm and a clear purpose: to invite the world to discover San Juan, a vibrant city that combines history, modernity and culture,” San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo said. (Facebook via Miguel Romero) 3 January 23, 2025
Soto embarks on a 3rd term as mayor of Canóvanas
By THE STAR STAFF
With the old Sugar Mill in the background, Mayor Lornna Soto Villanueva was sworn in Tuesday night for her third term as the first executive of the Autonomous Municipality of Canóvanas.
“I took the oath to serve you with integrity and honesty, complying with our state and federal Constitutions, as well as with the laws and ordinances and the Municipal Code of Puerto Rico,” Soto Villanueva said. “My spirit is renewed with the same emotion I felt back in 2014, when I took the oath to begin my duties as mayor. I feel extremely honored by the trust that citizens place in our efforts and commitments, as I am aware of and responsible for the current challenges that we all know. But also full of faith as I look to the future with great optimism.”
Describing the Old Sugar Mill of Canóvanas as a sign of economic power, commercial strength, work and the projection of past glories, Soto Villanueva stressed that the facility today is a symbol of resilience that describes very well the lineage of improvement of Canóvanas, and that
the northern central town’s administration will turn it into a pillar of tourism development, urban development and cultural development.
“The chimney that has faced the passing of time, Hurricane Maria, multiple natural phenomena and even the pandemic, remains standing with aplomb,” the mayor said. “Looking at it, I feel the strength of the support and trust that has been delegated to me to lead the destiny of this beloved city. A responsibility that we have fulfilled vigorously for the past 10 years. Today, with sincere humility and enormous satisfaction, I can tell you that I have worked tirelessly, in the face of challenges and goals; in the face of unsuspected circumstances such as the inclemency and roar of nature; in times of serenity and in times of controversy … and with the conviction of character, I come determined to honor it for four more years with tenacity, dedication and mettle.”
A true believer in youth and their leading role in a new paradigm of making Canóvanas a regional leader, Soto Villanueva said she also believes that it is important for each demographic and social sector to participate in those
efforts, contributing ideas, recommending solutions and collaborating in the execution of the government plan.
Official: Forest fire season has begun in Puerto Rico
By THE STAR STAFF
Designated Puerto Rico Firefighters Bureau (NBPR by its initials in Spanish) Commissioner Josué Piñeiro Torres said Wednesday that the department is preparing itself for the forest fire season, which typically begins at the start of February and ends in August.
“Our forest fire brigades have the necessary equipment and are proactive to attend to any situation to save life and property,”
Piñeiro said in a written statement.
“We exhort the public to take the necessary measures to prevent any incidents to be sorry over.”
Piñeiro said 37 forest fires have
been detected so far this month in the Ponce and Aguadilla regions, which the agency considers an indication that the fire season is active.
In 2024, the NBPR responded to 1,681 forest fires throughout the island.
Some 37 forest fires have been detected so far this month in the Ponce and Aguadilla regions, which the Puerto Rico Firefighters Bureau considers an indication that the fire season is active.
Piñeiro stressed that the forest fires have grave consequences, such as destruction of ecosystems, contamination of the air and risk for human and animal life.
Union objects to granting Domenech unlimited powers
By THE STAR STAFF
The union Puerto Rican Workers Central (CPT by its initials in Spanish) rejected on Wednesday an executive order giving La Fortaleza Chief of Staff Francisco Domenech unlimited powers to cancel government contracts and fire government workers in tenured positions.
“This order is so subjective that it becomes a dictatorial measure, concentrating the administrative power of all public agencies and corporations in a single person: the Chief of Staff,” CPT President Emilio Nieves Torres said.
In addition to supervising and directing the day-to-day operation of the agencies, Domenech will be able to disallow appointments to career government positions and even reverse
agency opinions, according to an executive order (EO) that the governor signed last week.
EO 2025-008 details the responsibilities and powers of Domenech, who also serves as executive director of the Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority, including the powers to establish any fiscal control measures that he deems necessary, deciding on contracts and purchase orders, and ordering audits.
The EO allows Domenech to disavow appointments and regulate personnel transactions, which, Nieves Torres said, violates human resources regulations and collective bargaining agreements. In addition, he stressed that the measures adversely affect both career and temporary employees.
Nieves Torres also noted that the order gives the chief of staff authority to implement fiscal controls without specific legal
basis. “These guidelines clash with existing laws and seek to further politicize recruitment and public administration processes,” he said.
Canóvanas Mayor Lornna Soto Villanueva took the oath of office for a third time. (Facebook via Lornna Soto)
Puerto Rican Workers Central President Emilio Nieves Torres
Governor files first 3 administration bills
Two concern island’s
energy transformation, the other addresses construction-environmental
tensions in La Parguera
By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Jenniffer González Colón announced Wednesday that she will submit her first three administration bills to the Legislature, including one that has the goal of legalizing structures in the seaside La Parguera sector of Lajas, the home of one of the island’s three bio bays.
The La Parguera measure comes after Designated Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) Secretary Waldemar Quiles amended an order that had collectively legalized structures in La Parguera to say that each case will be evaluated separately.
ining Officers and Administrative Judges are ordered, after the required procedures and in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Regulations of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources and the Rules of Procedure for Administrative Hearings of the Environmental Quality Board, to evaluate the applicability of the provisions of this Administrative Order to the particular circumstances of each case under their consideration and, if they deem it appropriate, order the filing of the cases
related to the provisions established in this Administrative Order to become academic,” the order notes.
The La Parguera measure aims to resolve the legal uncertainties surrounding existing structures and residences in the sector -where a property owned by the governor’s in-laws was the subject of a complaint filed with the DNER -- ensuring their alignment with environmental conservation.
The other two measures are based on recommendations from the Committee for the Energy Transformation of Puerto Rico. The first bill proposes a realistic work plan to achieve the goal of 100% renewable energy generation by 2050. The proposal removes intermediate targets that are likely unachievable, and which currently drive up electricity costs for consumers. Additionally, the date for banning coal burning has been postponed
to allow time for a transition away from this energy source before it is phased out. By implementing the amendments, the reliance on fossil fuels for energy generation could be significantly reduced and eventually eliminated. Cleaner energy sources, such as liquefied natural gas, which are currently disregarded due to intermediate targets, could be utilized. This would ensure the stability of the electricity system and sufficient generation capacity to meet consumer demand at reasonable costs, according to the measure.
The second bill aims to amend Article 6.36 of Law 57-2014, known as the “Energy Transformation and Relief Law,” to increase the fines that the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) can impose and to streamline their collection. The goal is to enhance the oversight authority of the PREB over its regulated entities, allowing it to impose more effective punitive sanctions. Furthermore, the PREB would have the power to seize any debt owed to a regulated party by any agency or entity of the central government to facilitate the collection of fines.
Continuing the efforts made by the Legislative Assembly in 2016, the governor’s third measure -- the La Parguera bill -- addresses the ongoing legal issues related to the existing structures and residences of the sector. The bill seeks to harmonize the structures’ presence with environmental conservation while also establishing a fee structure for the use of public land and waters. The proceeds from those fees would be allocated for the benefit of the environment and the La Parguera community.
LUMA highlights improvements in latest performance report
By THE STAR STAFF
LUMA Energy this week submitted its performance metrics report for the second quarter of fiscal year 2025 to the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau. The report from the private operator of the island’s electric power transmission and distribution system highlighted significant improvements in customer service and safety between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 2024 -- despite, it said, facing challenges from the mismanagement and operational failures of the previous company.
Additionally, the report showcased considerable progress in battery storage and the adoption of renewable energy, LUMA stated.
“LUMA continues to make real and
measurable progress in multiple key areas while remaining focused on improving the electrical system every day,” LUMA President and CEO Juan Saca said. “Our most recent report demonstrates, once again, the undeniable fact that LUMA’s team of more than 4,000 employees is making significant strides in building a better energy future for the 1.5 million customers we are privileged to serve.”
LUMA said it has continued to enhance its performance and make progress in key areas during the second quarter of fiscal year 2025, aiming to build a more reliable, resilient and customer-focused electrical system.
The firm connected 9,900 new customers with solar panels this past quarter, adding 87 megawatts of clean, renewable
energy to the grid.
LUMA also connected some 176,600 kilowatt-hours of new battery storage capacity in the quarter, which improves power delivery during peak demand hours and lowers fuel costs for customers.
The grid operator stated that it has enhanced the customer experience both over the phone and in person. Call wait times improved by 28% compared to the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, and in-person wait times decreased by 21%, bringing them to less than 7.5 minutes.
LUMA also reduced the Occupational Safety and Health Administration severity rate, which measures the average number of days lost per incident, by 8.3% compared to the previous quarter.
To date, LUMA has installed more
than 9,900 automated distribution devices across the island to improve service reliability and minimize the impact of interruptions. The devices have prevented more than 262 million minutes of customer service interruptions since the program launched in July 2023. In the past quarter alone, the devices prevented 67.5 million minutes of service interruptions, thereby lessening the impact on LUMA customers.
“We encourage all of our customers and stakeholders to review our most recent quarterly metrics report to see the concrete evidence of the progress our team at LUMA is making every day,” Saca said. “These meaningful metrics once again demonstrate our commitment to transparency regarding the progress and challenges we face.”
Gov. Jenniffer González Colón (Facebook via Governor Jenniffer González Colón)
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Far-right leaders granted clemency by Trump speak out
By ALAN FEUER
Fresh from being freed by President
Donald Trump’s sweeping grants of clemency, two of the nation’s most notorious far-right leaders — Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys and Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers militia — spoke out this week.
While the men avoided any declarations about the future of their battered organizations, they asserted unrepentantly that they wanted Trump to seek revenge on their behalf for being prosecuted in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Before Trump offered them a reprieve Monday night, both men had been serving lengthy prison terms — Tarrio 22 years and Rhodes 18 years — on seditious conspiracy convictions arising from the roles they played in the storming of the Capitol. The charges they faced and the punishment they got were among the most serious imposed against any of the nearly 1,600 people prosecuted in connection with Jan. 6.
Perhaps for that reason, their remarks, made to largely friendly audiences, were couched in a tone of cautious belligerence.
They were cagey about what sort of profile the organizations they once led would strike in a second Trump administration. But they clearly echoed assertions by the president and some of his allies that those who sought to hold Trump and the Jan. 6 rioters accountable should themselves face some sort of punishment.
“Success,” Tarrio said, “is going to be retribution.”
Tarrio made those comments to Alex Jones, the pro-Trump conspiracy theorist and proprietor of the news outlet Infowars. He called in to Jones’ show just hours after getting out of a federal prison in Louisiana and immediately thanked Trump “for helping us through these difficult times and releasing me.”
“Twenty-two years — this is not a short sentence,” he said. “That’s the rest of my life. So Trump literally gave me my life back.”
Tarrio then began a sustained attack on the criminal trial in U.S. District Court in Washington where he and three of his lieutenants were found guilty of sedition — a crime that requires prosecutors to prove that defendants used violent force against the government.
He claimed that the jury was biased
history should remember Jan. 6, he said, “As Patriots’ Day — that we stood up for our country because we knew the election was stolen.”
As for any regrets, he said he had none, adding, “Because we did the right thing.”
The Jan. 6 prosecutions devastated the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers as federal agents across the country arrested scores of people from both groups and prosecutors tried and convicted dozens of their members — often with the help of turncoats and informants from within the organizations.
The Oath Keepers in particular can be barely said to exist any longer as a viable entity. And while the Proud Boys dissolved their national leadership group — known as the Elders Chapter — under the weight of the Jan. 6 investigation, many of the group’s local chapters remain active.
and that it was unfair to have held the proceeding in Washington.
“I think they didn’t care about the evidence,” he said of the jurors who convicted him. “They cared about putting Trump supporters in prison.”
The Proud Boys played a central role on Jan. 6 in confronting the police at the Capitol and in encouraging other rioters to breach police lines. While Tarrio was not in Washington that day, prosecutors say he helped prepare his compatriots for street fights and remained in touch with them while the mob — with the Proud Boys in the lead — overran the Capitol.
In his first hours of freedom, he was also focused on seeking vengeance against those who investigated and prosecuted the events of Jan. 6. “Now it’s our turn,” Tarrio declared.
“The people who did this, they need to feel the heat,” he said. “They need to be put behind bars, and they need to be prosecuted.”
At a White House news conference Tuesday, Trump was asked whether far-right groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers would now have a place in the political conversation, given his expansive
efforts to pardon their members or commute their sentences.
“Well, we have to see,” Trump replied. “They’ve been given a pardon. I thought their sentences were ridiculous and excessive.”
Rhodes also said he was looking for payback when he showed up Tuesday afternoon at the local jail in Washington that has held several Jan. 6 defendants over the years and has served as the emotion focal point of protest against the federal prosecutions of the rioters.
He said, for instance, that he hoped Kash Patel, Trump’s pick to run the FBI, would “get in there and clean house” at the bureau. He also accused the people who oversaw his trial of breaking the law.
“What has to happen first,” Rhodes said, “is that the prosecutors who suborned perjury — that’s a crime — need to be prosecuted for their crimes.”
At his sentencing hearing in 2023, Rhodes defiantly declared that he was “a political prisoner,” comparing himself to Soviet-era dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn and to the beleaguered main character in the Franz Kafka novel “The Trial.”
Outside the Washington jail, he was equally unremorseful. When asked how
Indeed, on Inauguration Day, rankand-file Proud Boys descended in numbers on Washington for the first time since Jan. 6, marching with a banner congratulating Trump on his return to the White House. The display of presence on the streets — especially the streets of Washington — suggested that some within the Proud Boys wanted to make a public show of strength.
Tarrio, however, was somewhat circumspect about the group’s future, delivering his standard answer about the organization.
“I think the future of the club is going to be what it’s always been,” he said, “just a group of men that love America, get around and drink beer and protect Trump supporters from being assaulted.”
As for his own role in the group, he offered a typical winking reply.
“I do have a suggestion for the mainstream media,” he said. “They should stop calling me the ex-Proud Boys leader.”
Rhodes was equally evasive — though perhaps not quite as smug.
He said he did not know what the future of the Oath Keepers would be, admitting that “I might just decide to hang up my spurs.”
At any rate, he went on, he had other things to think about at the moment. When a reporter outside the Washington jail asked him what was the first thing he planned to do when he got home, his answer was quick and simple.
“I’m going to report to my probation officer,” he said.
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A woman holding a folded American flag kisses Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys leader who President Donald Trump offered reprieve from a 22 year prison sentence on Monday, as he arrives at Miami International Airport in Miami, on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys and Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers asserted that they wanted President Trump to seek revenge on their behalf for being prosecuted in connection with the Jan. 6 riot. (Saul Martinez/The New York Times)
2 dead, including gunman, in Nashville high school shooting, police say
By REMY TUMIN and EMILY COCHRANE
A17-year-old boy armed with a pistol opened fire in a high school cafeteria in Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday, fatally shooting one female student and injuring another student before killing himself, police said.
Don Aaron, a spokesperson for the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department, said the student who had been injured was grazed in the arm by a bullet at Antioch High School, about 20 miles southeast of downtown Nashville, and was being treated at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. A male student was also being treated for what Aaron described as a facial injury, though it was not the result of a gunshot.
The gunman fired multiple shots in the school’s cafeteria after 11 a.m., with an emergency call coming in two minutes after the first shot, Aaron said. He did not provide any additional details about the shooter or the victims. Officials said they did not know the motive for the shooting.
A student, who gave his name only as Ahmad, told Nashville TV station WSMV that he was in the cafeteria when gunfire erupted. He and his friends hid behind garbage cans before they could make their way to the football field as they passed victims who had been shot and were bleeding on the ground.
“I wish I could save them,” he said. “I feel a lot of pain and grief and depression knowing that I can’t do a thing to help them, just seeing them get shot in front of my face like that.”
Metro Nashville Public Schools said the high school was on lockdown around noon local time. Officials had set up a reunification area for parents.
“I join Tennesseans in praying for the victims, their families & the school community,” said Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, adding in a post on social media that he been briefed on the incident.
In Nashville, trauma still lingers from the 2023 shooting at the Covenant School, which was the deadliest school shooting in state history. A former student breached the campus of the private school, killing three 9-year-old students and three staff members before police shot and killed the assailant. But even after thousands of protesters
flooded the halls of the state Capitol, joining some parents of surviving students in pleas for tougher gun laws, the Republican supermajority in the Tennessee General Assembly has balked at changing the laws.
“Schools should be safe spaces where children can learn and grow without fear of violence,” said Voices for a Safer Tennessee, an organization founded in the aftermath of the Covenant School shooting to push for firearm restrictions, in a statement.
In 2024, over the objections of parents and many Democratic lawmakers in Nashville, lawmakers approved legislation that allowed teachers to carry a concealed handgun.
There has been support for increasing school resource officers: The Metro Council voted in December to approve a $3.9 million grant, though staffing shortages have prevented many of those schools from hiring officers. Aaron, the police spokesperson, said that two student resource officers were on campus but not near the shooting when gunfire began. By the time they arrived, the shooting was over.
Charlane Oliver, a state senator who represents the district that includes Antioch High School, said in a statement that her heart was “broken over the devastating shooting.”
“As a mother and a representative of this community, I grieve with the families, students and staff who are enduring this unimaginable tragedy,” she said. “No child should ever feel unsafe in their school, and no family should face the anguish of such a senseless loss.”
A photo provided by the Metro Nashville Police Department shows police officers outside of Antioch High School after a shooting in Nashville, Tenn., on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. A gunman opened fire inside a high school in Nashville on Wednesday, wounding two people before shooting himself, the police said. (Metro Nashville Police Department via The New York Times)
Trump says he will impose 10% tariffs on Chinese imports on Feb. 1
By ALAN RAPPEPORT
President Donald Trump said earlier this week that he intended to impose a 10% tariff on Chinese imports into the United States on Feb. 1, a decision that is sure to escalate trade tensions between the world’s largest economies.
Speaking at the White House, Trump said that the tariffs were in response to China’s role in America’s fentanyl crisis. Trump said that China was sending fentanyl to Canada and Mexico, from where it would be transported into the United States.
The tariff threat comes after Trump said Monday that he planned to impose a 25% duty on imports from Canada and Mexico as punishment for allowing fentanyl and illegal immigrants to cross into the United States.
“We’re talking about a tariff of 10% on China based on the fact that they’re sending fentanyl to Mexico and Canada,” Trump said.
Those tariffs would come on top of levies that Trump imposed on more than $300 billion worth of Chinese imports during his first term. Those tariffs were kept in place by President Joe Biden, who imposed additional levies on Chinese electric vehicles, solar cells, semiconductors and advanced batteries.
Trump’s pledge to hit China, Canada and Mexico with tariffs is expected to result in retaliatory action against U.S. industries. Economists have warned that a global trade war could
President Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 47th president, at the Capitol in Washington on Monday morning, Jan. 20, 2025. Much about Trump’s touted “External Revenue Service” remains unclear, including how it would differ from the government’s current operations.
(Kenny Holston/The New York Times)
cause inflation to rebound and blunt U.S. economic growth.
Trump signed an executive order Monday directing various agencies to study a wide variety of trade issues with an eye toward future tariffs, but he did not impose any new levies immediately, as he had previously threatened.
Instead he ordered U.S. officials to examine flows of migrants and drugs from Canada, China and Mexico to the United States, and the compliance of those three countries and others with their existing trade agreements with the United States.
Trump negotiated a new trade deal with Canada and Mexico during his first term: the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA. He also agreed to a limited trade pact with China that was supposed to reward American farmers.
He has since said that he wants to rewrite both agreements during his second term.
Trump and Xi Jinping, China’s president, spoke last week and discussed trade, fentanyl and areas where the world’s two largest economies could work together.
After Trump’s tariff action against China in his first term, he signed on to a broad economic agreement in 2020.
Relations between the countries unraveled during the pandemic, which Trump blamed on China, and Beijing failed to live up to many of its agreements in the deal, including to purchase American farm products.
Scott Bessent, Trump’s pick to be Treasury secretary, said during his confirmation hearing last week that he planned to press his Chinese counterparts to start buying U.S. farm products as their government had promised.
The Treasury nominee also said that he would press his Chinese counterparts to purchase additional products to make up for what the country was supposed to buy over the last four years.
DID YOU HAVE A HIP, KNEE, OR OTHER JOINT REPLACEMENT?
If your implant/replacement involved Exactech products – including Optetrak, Optetrak Logic, Truliant, Vantage, Connexion GXL, and Equinoxe, your attention to this notice is important.
WHAT IS THIS ABOUT?
Exactech, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets joint replacement implants and other related surgical instruments. Exactech, Inc. and its affiliates have filed voluntary petitions for Chapter 11 relief in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. As a part of the proceedings, the Debtors will sell all, or nearly all, of their assets.
If you received an implant, replacement, or other device from Exactech, your rights may be affected by this bankruptcy. You can file a Proof of Claim and/or object to the sale of assets using the instructions below.
WHICH DEVICES ARE INCLUDED?
Exactech manufactures and distributes knee, hip, ankle and shoulder implants, including Optetrak, Optetrak Logic, Truliant, Vantage, Connexion GXL and Equinoxe. A complete list is available at EXTclaims.com.
FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM
You can file your Proof of Claim, along with supporting documentation, online at EXTclaims.com. You may also file your
Proof of Claim via US Mail by First-Class Exactech, Inc. Claims Processing Center, c/o Kroll Restructuring Administration LLC, Grand Central Station, PO Box 4850, New York, NY 101634850 or by hand delivery or overnight courier to Exactech, Inc. Claims Processing, c/o Kroll Restructuring Administration LLC, 850 3rd Avenue, Suite 412, Brooklyn, NY 11232.
You must file a Proof of Claim to get payment or other compensation. The deadline to submit a Proof of Claim is February 7, 2025, at 4:00 p.m. ET. You must file a Proof of Claim so it is actually received by the bar date. If you do not submit your Proof of Claim by the deadline, you will lose any rights you may have had to seek payment or other compensation. All claims will be treated as highly confidential to prevent unintentional disclosure.
OBJECT TO ASSET SALE
As part of the Chapter 11 process, Exactech plans to sell all of its assets. If you received an implant, replacement, or other device from Exactech, you may have the right to object to the Asset Sale. Details about the Asset Sale are available on EXTclaims.com
Objections must be received on or before Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 4:00 p.m. ET. Objections must: (a) be in writing; (b) comply with the Bankruptcy Rules and Local Rules; (c) provide the reason for the Objection; (d) be filed with the Clerk of the Court, 824 N. Market Street, 3rd Floor, Wilmington, DE 19801; and (e) file proof of service with the Court that the objection was sent to the appropriate parties. Details on how to file an objection and a list of the Objection Notice Parties are available on EXTclaims.com
WHEN IS THE HEARING?
The Bankruptcy Court will hold the hearing to approve the Asset Sale on or before Thursday, March 27, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. ET to decide to approve the Asset Sale (“Sale Hearing”). The Sale Hearing will take place before the Honorable Judge Silverstein, United States Bankruptcy Judge, in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, 824 N. Market Street, 6th Floor, Courtroom 2, Wilmington, DE 19801.
THIS IS ONLY A SUMMARY OF THE INFORMATION.
Trump push to use tariffs to pay for tax cuts faces opposition in Congress
U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing a plan to explicitly use revenue from higher tariffs on imported goods to help pay for extending trillions of dollars in tax cuts, an unprecedented shift likely to face opposition from many of his fellow Republicans in Congress.
The U.S. collects less than $100 billion annually in trade penalties imposed on imported goods as a tool to protect and grow domestic industries. That money is rarely a topic in Washington’s routine budget battles because it makes up so little of the federal government’s revenue.
Trump has threatened across-the-board import tariffs, but has yet to impose any. The president and his allies say he wants to use them much like the personal and corporate taxes that account for the vast majority of U.S. revenues, notching up tariffs to help pay for government programs and cover promised tax cuts.
“Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens. For this purpose, we are establishing the External Revenue Service to collect all tariffs, duties and revenues. It will be massive amounts of money pouring into our treasury coming from foreign sources,” Trump said during his inaugural address on Monday.
Raising enough money in tariffs to make a dent on the U.S. budget would be a big ask; they have accounted for only about 2% of annual revenues in recent years.
“Tariffs are going to be a really important part of the taxcut discussion.” A 10% tariff is “about $350 to $400 billion in revenue. So you see the beauty of that in the negotiations,” Trump aide Peter Navarro told CNBC on Tuesday.
Republican budget hawks concerned about the reliability and durability of tariff revenue, along with the potential dangers trade wars pose for individual districts and voters, are likely to put up a fight, U.S. lawmakers and trade analysts say.
U.S. Representative Ralph Norman, a South Carolina Republican, told Reuters that any push by Trump to pass tariffs through Congress as legislation would be an uphill climb.
“Everybody’s got their district and companies that are affected by tariffs, good and bad. I doubt he would think he could get it through,” Norman said.
“It is technically, mathematically possible to find some tariff policy that would offset the Trump tax cuts, but there is no way they would have the votes to do that,” said Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the leftleaning Center for American Progress.
Asked how seriously Republicans are looking at tariff revenue as an offset for the Trump agenda, House of Representatives Majority Leader Steve Scalise told Reuters: “Trump’s alluded to doing tariffs, but we don’t know any details yet. He said expect something to come. But until we see it, it’s really hard to speculate.”
Importing companies pay tariffs on goods that come into the U.S., and most economists and business executives say importers are likely to pass the costs to consumers or be forced to accept lower profits.
The House Ways and Means Committee, the main taxwriting panel in the lower chamber, included a 10% across-
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the-board tariff in its menu of options to pay for extending the tax cuts, according to a recent memo seen by Reuters. It estimated such a tariff regime would fetch $1.9 trillion over 10 years, according to the memo. Extending the tax cuts Trump passed during his first term and which expire this year would cost $4 trillion over 10 years, analysts estimate.
Trump has also promised to stop collecting taxes on workers’ tips and payments to Social Security retirees, which would add hundreds of billions to the federal deficit without matching revenue or cuts.
Republicans are preparing to enact these plans through a parliamentary process called “budget reconciliation” that doesn’t require support from Democrats in the coming weeks.
With a slim majority in the House and a 53-47 seat margin in the Senate, Trump
needs to convince budget hawks within his party that his plans won’t add to the deficit. Democrats have been opposed to the vast majority of the Trump tax cuts.
If they are not technically in the legislation, the tariffs would not likely be included in the official Congressional Budget Office scoring of the reconciliation bill.
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One family in Gaza returned home. But home was gone.
By VIVIAN YEE and BILAL SHBAIR
Minutes after the fighting stopped in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, Islam Dahliz and his father and brother set out for the neighborhood where they had lived until Israeli forces ordered them to leave. They were looking for the family home, but the landscape around them scrambled the senses. Familiar landmarks, streets, neighbors’ houses — everything was rubble.
Then Dahliz recognized the local wedding hall, he said, or what remained of it. That meant their home stood — had stood — behind them, in a spot they had already passed. They just hadn’t recognized it, this house that Dahliz’s father had built more than 50 years ago.
“It took us a few minutes to accept that this pile of rubble was our home,” said Dahliz, 34, who works with local aid groups. They stood there, speechless.
His 74-year-old father, Abed Dahliz, felt the wind knocked out of him, he said. His sons had to help him back to their tent to rest.
“I was shocked when I saw my entire life — everything I worked for — flattened to the ground,” said Abed Dahliz, a farmer all his life, his voice soft and trembling. “The home I spent so many years building, pouring my savings into, is gone.”
This was not the moment they had hoped for and pictured all these months, as they were forced to move from tent to tent to tent, packing up and starting over four times in all. They had imagined a return. A resumption of their lives.
In their latest makeshift tent in a park in western Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, they had huddled on Sunday morning, when the ceasefire was supposed to
take effect, glued to the radio. Islam Dahliz was on his phone, refreshing social media accounts for the latest news. The whole family tensed when they heard that the truce might collapse over a last-minute hitch: Hamas, Israel said, had not handed over the promised list of Israeli hostages to be freed from Gaza.
Then, at 11:15 a.m., the radio reported that the ceasefire was on. The father and the brothers got in the car, they said, and set out for home.
Home had been a spacious two-story house on al-Imam Ali Street in Rafah, built in 1971 and shared, like many homes in Gaza, by three generations of the same family. The parents lived in one apartment, and Dahliz, his wife and their children had another. He had put his savings toward a new kitchen, furniture and bedding when he came back to Gaza from Hungary, where he had been studying agricultural science, he recalled.
His brothers Mohammed and Anas had also lived there with their families, with another brother a half-mile away. It was big enough that during the first seven months of the war, the Dahlizes could host around 10 other families that had evacuated from elsewhere in Gaza.
Next door was their farm, started by their father and tended by Mohammed,
40. Olive trees and date palms stood side by side with greenhouses where they grew parsley, lettuce and arugula. They had had rabbits, chickens and 40 sheep, which Mohammed used to lead to the fields to graze every morning.
The Israeli military has said that it struck residential areas because Hamas fighters were embedding themselves in civilian buildings, though a New York Times investigation found that Israel also weakened civilian protections to make it easier to bomb Gaza during the war.
When Israeli forces invaded Rafah in May and ordered everyone in eastern Rafah to leave, Islam Dahliz said, the vegetables were just starting to sprout. The families who had been sheltering at the Dahlizes’ dispersed. The Dahlizes packed up some clothes, tarps and other materials for a makeshift tent, and picked a spot for it as close as they could find to home.
But they didn’t lay eyes on it for months, despite being just a few miles away.
Their cousins managed to sneak into the neighborhood from time to time, bringing back updates. Their home was still standing, they reported. Then they said it was standing, but some of its doors and windows had been blown out.
In the fall, the Dahlizes scoured satel-
lite images circulating on social media: still intact. Then they checked again on Dec. 8, Islam Dahliz recalled. All they saw where the house had been was a gray shadow.
Now their palm and olive trees were knocked down, trunks scattered on the ground. Israeli tanks had left tracks all over their land. Little stood straight on their property other than a few concrete pillars with rebar sticking out of them.
“I feel lost, utterly lost,” said Mohammed Dahliz. Then, becoming angry, he said: “This was an agricultural area, a place of peace. It posed no threat to anyone, no danger to soldiers. We had no ties to politics, no reason to be caught in this violence.”
Islam Dahliz’s daughter Juan, 9, screamed when he showed her pictures of the destruction, he said. “Remember, Daddy, when you threw me a birthday party in the big hall?” she asked, sobbing.
On Monday morning, the brothers and their father drove to their neighborhood a second time, down a road jammed with other families, every vehicle overflowing with passengers and bundled belongings. They were all there to salvage whatever they could. All over Rafah, people filled tattered flour sacks and patched-up bags with scraps of metal they could perhaps sell or reuse and wood they could perhaps burn.
Digging through the grayness, Islam Dahliz stumbled on his old school certificates, a discovery that produced a smile. But otherwise, they hadn’t found much. Firewood, a few pillows, an empty tank they hoped to repair.
He was clinging to plans, however fragile.
If — if — the two sides negotiated a permanent end to the war, as they are supposed to attempt during the ceasefire’s initial phase, the Dahlizes would hire a bulldozer to clear the rubble, first from the farm, then from the house. They would install some pipes, build a basic toilet and set up a water tank, he said.
“It won’t end the suffering,” he said, “but at least it’ll be closer to the home where we created so many memories.”
But for now, dusk was falling. They would have to return to their tent. What remained of the Dahlizes’ old lives barely filled the back of one small car.
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Brothers Mohammed Daliz, left, and Islam Dahliz stand amidst the rubble where their home once stood in Rafah, in southern Gaza, on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. Their family was ordered by Israeli forces to evacuate Rafah in May 2024. (Bilal Shbair/The New York Times)
Latin American leaders welcome and warn Trump
By ANNIE CORREAL and EMILIANO RODRÍGUEZ MEGA
In the weeks before he took office, Donald Trump repeatedly vowed to carry out the largest deportations in U.S. history and to militarize the border, all while his transition team rebuffed requests from regional leaders to meet over the effects of his promised moves.
He made countries such as Mexico targets of his attacks, claiming migrants were flooding the United States with fentanyl and threatening to enforce devastating tariffs. He also zeroed in on Panama, repeatedly asserting that the country had permitted China to take control, compelling the United States to intervene and reclaim the Panama Canal.
So as Trump was inaugurated in Washington on Monday, the typical congratulatory messages were also accompanied by some from Latin American leaders that deviated sharply from the usual diplomatic norms.
“There is no reason why Mexico should keep its head down or feel lesser than. We are a great country, a cultural power,” said President Claudia Sheinbaum during her daily morning news conference. “Our relationship with the United States will be one of equals.”
She also tried to reassure Mexicans living in the United States without legal permission who might face removal. “Mexicans are very important to the U.S. economy, and the Trump administration knows it,” Sheinbaum said. “To our countrymen and women: You are not alone, and you must remain calm.”
Mexico is the country with the highest number of immigrants without legal status in the United States, with around 4 million Mexicans living there without authorization as of 2022, according to the Pew Research Center.
Mexico’s foreign minister, Juan Ramón de la Fuente, also said Monday that Mexico would not support the anticipated move to reinstate a policy known as Remain in Mexico, which under the first Trump presidency forced migrants applying for asylum to wait in Mexico until the time of their hearings in immigration court. The policy was a boon for drug cartel members, who targeted asylum-seekers to extort, kidnap and rape
The U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, on Dec. 30, 2024. As President Donald Trump was inaugurated in Washington on Jan. 20, the typical congratulatory messages were also accompanied by some from Latin American leaders that deviated sharply from the usual diplomatic norms. (Paul Ratje/The New York Times)
them, human rights groups say.
“Yes, they can do it; it is their right,” de la Fuente said of the United States. But while allowing that “some agreements” could be reached, he pointed out that Mexico had no legal obligation to process migrants’ asylum requests for the United States.
Hours later, in a message on social media, Sheinbaum congratulated Trump. “As neighbors and trading partners, dialogue, respect and cooperation will always be the symbol of our relationship,” she wrote.
But during a marathon session of signing executive orders, Trump said Monday that he would slap 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada on Feb. 1, accusing both countries, as he has in the past, of allowing immigrants and fentanyl into the United States. Sheinbaum and some of her administration officials have previously said Mexico would have to hit back on the United States with their own tariffs.
Following Trump’s inauguration, the president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, who warned this month that she was prepared to expel the U.S. military from the country if Trump pursued mass deportations, limited herself to sending a polite message welcoming him back into office.
But the country’s deputy foreign minister, Tony García, said in a telephone interview Monday afternoon that his country
carrying more than half a million deportees from the United States in the last decade. He said the country planned to continue receiving such flights, but the two governments had to work out a plan first.
“We are in favor of coordination,” he said. “Not subordination.”
His were some of the sharpest words for the new president.
In Panama, a target of Trump’s recent criticisms, including his false claims that China controls the Panama Canal and that the United States should take it back, President José Raúl Mulino roundly rejected the president’s assertions, which he repeated during his inaugural speech.
“The Canal is and will continue to belong to Panama and its administration will continue to be under Panamanian control,” Mulino said in a statement posted on the social platform X.
and several of its neighbors did not plan to accept large numbers of flights carrying deportees without first negotiating the process with the incoming administration.
“They can’t be done unilaterally,” he said, of mass deportations.
García said that while there are currently no plans to end Honduras’ military agreement with the United States, which permits U.S. operations from a large military base, the Castro administration is still considering it as a potential option, so “they take us more seriously.”
The foreign ministers of several countries met last week to discuss their response to the incoming Trump administration in Mexico City, including Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico and Venezuela. According to García, the countries agreed that they would not “allow anyone to be deported by force. If a country says no one can come in, not one plane can touch down.”
Honduras is estimated to have about 525,000 immigrants living without legal permission in the United States, according to the Pew Research Center. García said it had received flights
However, later in the day, the Panamanian comptroller’s office announced that auditors had visited the county’s maritime authorities to initiate an audit of Panama Ports Co., a Hutchison Ports Holding subsidiary. The company is a major ports operator and the country’s main port concessionaire. It is also part of CK Hutchison Holdings, a Hong Kong-based conglomerate.
“The purpose of this exhaustive audit is to ensure the efficient and transparent use of public resources,” the comptroller’s office said.
In a shift, countries that have been close trading partners of the United States also saw their economies menaced. By late Monday, Mexican leaders had not yet responded to Trump’s tariffs threat. But Canada’s finance minister, Dominic LeBlanc, did.
“Our country is absolutely ready to respond to any one of these scenarios,” LeBlanc said. “We still continue to believe that it would be a mistake.”
I spent Trump’s inauguration in Ukraine. This is what I saw.
By M. GESSEN
On the day of Donald Trump’s second inauguration, an air raid was in effect in Odesa for much of the afternoon. People went about their business. Street vendors continued selling coffee. Trams kept running. At Pryvoz, the mammoth farmers’ (and everything else) market, electricity went out for a while, but that seemed to have no effect on the pace of commerce; if it was slow, that was because it was a Monday. In the two years and 11 months since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Odesa has gone through stages: months of shock and fear, followed by something akin to denial and, finally, adaptation.
Odesa is one of those cities — like, say, New Orleans — possessed of a distinct personality, a mythology of itself that fuels a fierce and joyful kind of patriotism. Odesa is rightfully proud of its sea views, its architecture, its food, its multiculturalism, its entrepreneurship and its libertine spirit, but its singular distinction is the well-turned phrase, the unsparingly hilarious joke.
Hanna Shelest, a military analyst, made one of those remarks early on in the war. As she recalled, not long after Russia invaded, an Italian journalist asked her — in that way that male journalists “ask” female experts they are interviewing while actually telling them what to think — “You do realize that you are going to have to give Putin something?” Shelest paused and said, “You are right. We’ll give him Lake Como.” It was a perfect way of pointing out the absurdity of the premise, that Ukraine owed Putin something just because he wanted it.
I asked Shelest to watch Trump’s inauguration with me. We used the TV in my hotel room. Shelest, who is 43, and her parents, who are both 65, have been living in a borrowed apartment since a Russian drone hit their building on Nov. 14. She had just finished an on-air interview with a French television channel when she heard a soft boom, and then the chandelier in her study fell to the floor, just missing her mother. It took them all a few minutes to realize that some of the rooms in their apartment were in ruins, and the apartment next door was in flames. Still, they were lucky: The drone didn’t explode. In the days that followed, after the fire had been put out, Shelest and her mother used a firetruck’s lift to get into their apartment through a window to salvage some clothes.
not include Ukraine. In the week before Trump’s inauguration, some high-level Russian officials made aggressive statements indicating that Ukraine shouldn’t exist at all.
For most of the past three years, the Kremlin has either flat-out refused to enter talks on an end to the war or made demands for territory that far exceeded what Russia had been able to occupy. If any talks happen, Shelest said, Russia will be interested not in finding a sustainable solution but just in maximizing its own position.
“That was kind of odd,” Shelest said when Trump finished his speech. “I am confused by the emphasis on sovereignty. Is anyone threatening the sovereignty of the United States? It’s particularly odd watching this from Ukraine, where we are actually fighting for our sovereignty. It has a way of diminishing our struggle.” She was a little surprised that Trump didn’t mention Ukraine, though he previously promised to end the Russo-Ukrainian war within 24 hours. One might assume that Trump was referring to Ukraine when he complained that the Biden administration had “given unlimited funding to the defense of foreign borders.” She said a probably unintended effect of not mentioning Ukraine by name was that Japan and Taiwan, for example, as well as military contractors, were put on notice. “And Panama!” she added. “What did calm, peaceful Panama do?”
To me, all of this sounded familiar. Russian President Vladimir Putin spent many years trafficking in imagined grievances and illusory threats to Russian sovereignty. As it often has been in history, this language was a prelude to launching his ruthless wars. Even Trump’s language about the Panama Canal, which he called a “foolish gift that should have never been made,” was a direct reprise of Putin’s statements on Crimea, which he repeatedly described as having been a gift to Ukraine from Nikita Khrushchev in the 1950s. As is his way, Trump is moving faster than his role model. No sooner had he introduced the idea of wounded sovereignty than he promised that “the United States will once again consider itself a growing nation — one that increases our wealth, expands our territory.” Totalitarian leaders, leaders who want to stay in power forever, undertake expansionist wars.
This axiom of totalitarianism makes it unlikely that Trump will be able to deliver on his promise to end the war in Ukraine. Putin needs this war.
Putin also wants a summit with Trump, which appears to be on track to happen this year. A meeting with the U.S. president would signal an end to the period of international isolation Russia entered after it invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
A meeting with Trump would not only show Russians — and the rest of the world — that Putin is once again a legitimate voice in the world; it would also give him what he has long demanded: a conversation about the fate of Ukraine that does
But Shelest hopes that Putin will overplay his hand. He is well on his way. Last month, a Russian oligarch and Putin booster told The Financial Times that Russia would merely make a show of reviewing Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine, then reject it. (In response, Trump adviser Keith Kellogg, appearing on Fox News, mysteriously directed the oligarch to “get back in your box.”) In the past, Putin has sometimes indicated that he has a low opinion of Trump’s intelligence. “He may be tempted to humiliate Trump, to put him in his place,” Shelest said.
Could that get Trump’s ire up? “Maybe he will decide that he wants to be a victor,” Shelest said. Maybe he will give Ukraine what the Biden administration has held back: enough military resources and the freedom to use them to really hurt Russia. It’s a hell of a thing to see Trump’s propensity to act out of spite as your country’s best hope.
An hour after Shelest left my hotel room, the air raid siren went off again.
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A hotel television in Odesa, Ukraine plays scenes from Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, on Jan. 20, 2025. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)
Betito Márquez García es juramentado para un tercer término como alcalde de Toa Baja y reafirma su visión de desarrollo, inclusión y resiliencia
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TOA BAJA – En un acto celebrado en la Isla de Cabras, un histórico escenario del municipio, Bernardo “Betito” Márquez García juramentó como alcalde de Toa Baja para un nuevo cuatrienio, y dio paso al inicio de su tercer término al frente de la administración municipal. Ante la presencia de su familia, amigos, colaboradores y líderes comunitarios, Márquez reafirmó su visión de
continuar transformando a Toa Baja en un modelo de desarrollo, inclusión y resiliencia.
“Hoy renovamos nuestro compromiso con Toa Baja, un pueblo que ha demostrado ser solidario, luchador y visionario. Desde que asumimos la alcaldía hace ocho años, hemos trabajado incansablemente para superar los retos y convertir cada obstáculo en una oportunidad “,expresó el alcalde durante su discurso.
Márquez destacó los logros alcanzados durante sus primeros dos términos. Mencionó la estabilización de las finanzas municipales, la creación del primer Instituto Municipal de Cooperativismo y Participación Ciudadana en Puerto Rico, y la inversión en proyectos de mitigación de inundaciones. También subrayó iniciativas icónicas como el Toa Baja Maratón 42k, el traspaso de los Parques Nacionales Isla de Cabras y Balneario Punta Salinas al municipio, y el desarrollo de infraestructura deportiva y cultural.
Nuevas metas y proyectos
El alcalde compartió detalles sobre los proyectos planificados para este nuevo término, destacando que estos
buscan fortalecer la infraestructura, promover el bienestar comunitario y fomentar el desarrollo sostenible de Toa Baja, entre ellos:
• La construcción del Natatorio Llanero y el Complejo Llanero.
• La rehabilitación del Centro de Gobierno y la extensión del Paseo Lineal de Toa Baja.
• La implementación del Proyecto de Salud Llanera, enfocado en promover la actividad física, mental y espiritual para mejorar la calidad de vida de los residentes.
• La inauguración de la Plaza de los Boxeadores en Toa Baja Pueblo y el Paseo de las Estrellas en Levittown.
• La ampliación de los proyectos educativos ‘Llanero Senior, Junior y Kids Challenges’, así como el nuevo ‘Llanero Community Challenge’.
Durante su mensaje, Márquez reafirmó que la clave del éxito de su administración es la participación de la comunidad y la transparencia en la gestión. “El activo más grande que tiene un pueblo es su gente. Toa Baja no es solo un lugar; es nuestro hogar, y juntos construiremos el futuro que merecemos “, declaró.
Contralora revela que Instituto de Estadísticas nunca ha recibido presupuesto para fondo especial
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SAN JUAN – La Oficina del Contralor de Puerto Rico emitió el miércoles una opinión cualificada sobre las operaciones fiscales del Instituto de Estadísticas, al señalar que el fondo especial creado por la Ley 209-2003 nunca ha recibido asignación presupuestaria desde su establecimiento.
“La Legislatura no ha asignado presupuesto al fondo especial de dos millones de dólares, lo que ha obligado
al Instituto a usar fondos operacionales para financiar proyectos relevantes”, destaca el informe. Esta situación afecta los recursos destinados a mejoras metodológicas, procesos y productos estadísticos gubernamentales.
Además, la auditoría identificó deficiencias en las facturas de contratistas, ya que el 61% de las revisadas entre 2021 y 2024 carecían del desglose del tiempo trabajado, incumpliendo la Ley 237-2004. También se señaló que el sistema de registros de desembolsos no incluía un número único para identificar transacciones electrónicas, lo que
afecta la confiabilidad del sistema contable.
En respuesta, el director ejecutivo del Instituto presentó memorandos ejecutivos en 2024 con medidas correctivas para atender los hallazgos. Durante los años fiscales 202122 al 2023-24, el Instituto reportó ingresos de 8.8 millones de dólares y desembolsos por 5.2 millones de dólares.
El informe recomienda a líderes legislativos y de la Junta de Control Fiscal evaluar la necesidad de asignar fondos al Instituto para garantizar el cumplimiento de la ley y fortalecer su capacidad operativa.
Buscan sospechoso de robo en joyería en el Viejo San Juan
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SAN JUAN – Las autoridades buscan a un individuo sospechoso de apropiarse de más de 250 mil dólares en prendas de oro de la joyería Kury Universal, ubicada en la calle San Francisco en el Viejo San Juan.
Según el informe policial, el robo quedó documentado en fotos y videos que muestran al sospechoso cometiendo el delito.
La Policía solicita la colaboración de la ciudadanía para identificar al sospechoso. Cualquier persona con información puede comunicarse confidencialmente al Cuerpo de Investigaciones Criminales (CIC) de San Juan al 787-793-1234, extensiones 2274, 2271 o 2272.
Se exhorta a la ciudadanía a mantenerse en contacto con las autoridades a través de las redes sociales en X, anteriormente Twitter, en @PRPDNoticias, o en Facebook en www.facebook.com/prpdgov.
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Garth Hudson, multifaceted musician with the Band, dies at 87
By PETER APPLEBOME
Garth Hudson, whose intricate swirls of Lowrey organ helped elevate the Band from rollicking juke-joint refugees into one of the most resonant and influential rock groups of the 1960s and ’70s, died Tuesday in Woodstock, New York. He was 87 and the last surviving original member of the group.
His death, at a nursing home, was confirmed by Jan Haust, a close friend and colleague.
Hudson did far more than play the organ. A musical polymath whose workroom at home included arcana like sheet music for century-old standards and hymns, he played almost anything — saxophone, accordion, synthesizers, trumpet, French horn, violin — and in endless styles that could at various times be at home in a conservatory, a church, a carnival or a roadhouse.
He was the one who set up, installed and maintained the recording equipment in the pink ranch house in Saugerties, New York, where Bob Dylan and the Band recorded more than 100 songs that came to be known as the basement tapes.
When the Band became a force on its own, he arranged the music on the group’s albums and painstakingly tweaked and honed its recordings. He added brass, woodwinds and eclectic flourishes that accentuated the group’s homespun authenticity, a quality that set it apart from the psychedelia and youthful posturing of the rock of its era.
During its peak, the Band was famously a collaborative operation informed by the songwriting and barbed guitar playing of Robbie Robertson and the soulful singing and musicianship of Levon Helm, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel. But critics and his fellow band members agreed that Hudson played an essential role in raising the group to another level entirely.
the title “music consultant” — all so that his parents would feel better about their gifted son playing mere rock ’n’ roll.
After leaving Hawkins, the former members of the Hawks toured on their own, and then with Dylan, who recruited them to accompany him on his groundbreaking 1965 and 1966 folk-rock tours. Afterward, they settled near Woodstock, where the collaborations with Dylan became the stuff of rock lore. (Known to the locals there as simply “the band,” the five decided to name themselves that.)
The Band recorded its first album, “Music From Big Pink,” in 1968. With the release of a follow-up, “The Band,” in 1969, the group’s distinctive mix of rock, R&B and country became a phenomenon.
Songs like “The Weight,” “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” and “Up on Cripple Creek” offered a rich, anachronistic distillation of diverse American musics, with echoes of the Civil War and the nation’s rural past. Hudson was the wizard behind the scenes adding pastoral touches to the band’s sound out of Aaron Copland or Charles Ives.
His dark beard and inscrutable expressions made him look somewhere between a dour lumberjack and an Old Testament prophet, giving him the appearance of serious craftsman lost in his music rather than a crowd-pleasing rock star. His musical influence was enhanced by the fact that he played the Lowrey organ, which had a richer tonal range than the Hammond used by most rock organists. Much of his work consisted of adding rich counterpoint and textures to the music while other members’ singing and playing were more in the forefront.
Still, a highlight of every show by the Band was his virtuoso improvisation leading into the song “Chest Fever,” which usually took off from Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor and veered off in whatever direction, from classical to jazz, Hudson had in mind that night — and at whatever length.
Robertson, quoted in Barney Hoskyns’ 1993 book, “The Band: Across the Great Divide,” called him “far and away the most advanced musician in rock ’n’ roll.” “He could just as easily have played with John Coltrane or the New York Symphony Orchestra as with us,” Robertson said.
Eric Garth Hudson was born Aug. 2, 1937, in Windsor, Ontario. His mother, Olive Louella Pentland, played piano and accordion and sang. His father, Fred James Hudson, was a farm inspector, who played drums, C melody saxophone, clarinet, flute and piano. The family moved to London, Ontario, when Hudson was about 3.
He grew up listening to country hoedowns on the radio, learning Bach preludes and fugues and studying music theory, harmony and counterpoint. He first played in public at St. Luke’s Anglican Church and at an uncle’s funeral home, then began a musical career that took him, from 1961 to 1963, to Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks, a boisterous rockabilly and rhythm-and-blues band that included the other four members of what would become the Band, three of them Canadians. Helm was from Arkansas.
According to Helm and others, Hudson had kept turning down pleas to join the Hawks until he was offered a new organ, an extra $10 a week to give the others music lessons and
The Band would never match the critical reception accorded its groundbreaking first two albums, and its members later descended into discord and substance abuse. They disbanded in 1976 with an all-star Thanksgiving concert in San Francisco that included performances by Dylan, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison and others. The concert was documented in the Martin Scorsese film that took its title from how the evening was billed, “The Last Waltz.”
The Band, minus Robertson, reunited in the early 1980s. It toured and released three albums with additional musicians in the 1990s, though the group never again approached its early success.
Hudson continued to be sought after and widely admired, performing and recording with dozens of musicians, including Roger Waters, Leonard Cohen and Tom Petty.
Hudson suffered numerous financial setbacks, including several bankruptcies and a messy row with his landlord in Kingston, New York, who sold off much of Hudson’s personal property in 2013. Over the years his bushy black beard became a bushy white one, and he took on a stooped, genial, gnomelike presence around Woodstock, where he sometimes performed with his wife, singer Sister Maud Hudson, who died in 2022 at 71. He left no immediate survivors.
Critics and his fellow members of the Band agreed that Garth Hudson played an essential role in raising the group to another level entirely.
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Trump withdraws US from World Health Organization
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
President Donald Trump moved quickly Monday to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, a move that public health experts say will undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.
In an executive order issued about eight hours after he took the oath of office, Trump cited a string of reasons for the withdrawal, including the WHO’s “mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic,” and the “failure to adopt urgently needed reforms.” He said the agency demands “unfairly onerous payments” from the United States, and complained that China pays less.
The move was not unexpected. Trump has been railing against the WHO since 2020, when he attacked the agency over its approach to the coronavirus pandemic and threatened to withhold United States funding from it. In July 2020, Trump took formal steps to withdraw
from the agency.
But after he lost the 2020 election, the threat did not materialize. On his first day in office, Jan. 20, 2021, President Joe Biden blocked it from going into effect.
Leaving the WHO would mean, among other things, that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would have no access to the global data that the agency provides. When China characterized the genetic sequence of the novel coronavirus in 2020, it released the information to the WHO, which shared it with other nations.
More recently, the WHO has become a target of conservatives over its work on a “pandemic treaty” to strengthen pandemic preparedness and set legally binding policies for member countries on surveillance of pathogens, rapid sharing of outbreak data, and building up local manufacturing and supply chains for vaccines and treatments, among others.
President Donald Trump signs executive orders on his first day back in office, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. Public health experts say Trump’s move to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization will undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
withdrawal from the WHO would be “a grievous wound” to public health but an “even deeper wound to American national interests and national security.”
Founded in 1948 with help from the United States, the World Health Organization is an agency of the United Nations. Its mission, according to its website, is to “confront the biggest health challenges of our time and measurably advance the well-being of the world’s people.”
That includes bringing aid to war-torn areas like the Gaza Strip and tracking emerging epidemics like Zika, Ebola and COVID-19. The biennial budget of the WHO is about $6.8 billion; the United States has typically contributed an outsize share.
Talks on the treaty broke down last year. In the United States, some Republican lawmakers viewed the agreement as a threat to American sovereignty.
Lawrence O. Gostin, a public health law expert at Georgetown University who helped negotiate the treaty, said that a United States
According to Gostin, it will take some time for the United States to withdraw. A joint resolution adopted by Congress at the agency’s founding addressed a potential withdrawal, and requires the United States to give a year’s notice and pay its financial obligations to the organization for the current fiscal year.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA
DIANA MORALES
PENCHI T/C/C DIANA MORALES ALMODOVAR
T/C/C DIANA M ALMODOVAR
Parte Peticionaria EX PARTE
Civil Núm.: RN2023CV00068. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO Y USUCAPIÓN. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.
POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.poderjudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. RÚSTICA: Radicada en el Barrio Cruz de Rincón. Solar: Cabida: 22,699.5744 metros cuadrados equivalentes a 5.775 cuerdas. Linderos:
NORTE, Juan Noriega Silva y Flor Acevedo; al SUR, Sucesión de Gerardo Noriega; al ESTE, un camino vecinal; y al OESTE, otro camino vecinal.”
Inscrita al folio 13 del tomo 25 de Rincón finca número 897 del Registro de la Propiedad de Aguadilla Sección Primera. Número de Catastro: 125000-002-96. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lcdo. EDUARDO SANCHEZ JAUREGUI JIMENEZ, 366 Ave Escorial, San Juan, PR 00920; Tel. (787) 603-1178. Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 28 DE MARZO DE 2025, A LAS 11:15 DE LA MAÑANA, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 18 de diciembre de 2024. AWILDA CABÁN SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA.
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. NOTICE OF SALE. MMG PRCI CFL, LLC
Plaintiff v. BMF, INC., ORLANDO MAYENDIA DIAZ, JULIO BLANCO DARCY, HIS WIFE WANDA MENDEZ QUIÑONES AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED THEREIN, ADNREW BERT FOTI TALLENGER, HIS WIFE, EVA JUDITH PAGAN BURGOS AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED THEREIN; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO
(DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA)
Defendants
CIVIL NO. 19-1461 (BJM). RE: COLLECTION OF MONEY, FORECLOSURE OF PLEDGE AND MORTGAGE. TO: BMF, INC., Orlando Mayendia Diaz, Julio Blanco Darcy, his wife Wanda Mendez Quiñones and the Conjugal Partnership constituted therein, Adnrew Bert Foti Tallenger, his wife, Eva Judith Pagan Burgos and the Conjugal Partnership constituted therein; United States Of America, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Departamento De Hacienda), General Public, and all parties that may have an interest in the property WHEREAS, on January 25, 2023, Judgment was entered for the total outstanding principal balance in the amount of $4,392,502.61 with interest accrued until full payment, plus mortgage and risk insurance premiums, late fees and any other amounts agreed in the mortgage deed, from the date stated above until full payment thereof, plus 10% for attorney’s fees and costs. The records of the case and these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS, pursuant to said Judgment, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda-Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder at his office located in 441 E Street, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, PR 00969 (coordinates 18.369857966.1124836) the following property: “—“REMANENTE: SOLAR “B”: LOTE INDUSTRIAL: Predio de terreno de forma irregular que radica en el Barrio Rio Cañas del termino municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con cabida de siete mil ochocientos ochenta y un punto cero novecientos ochenta y tres metros cuadrados (7,881.0983 m2). En lindes por el NOROESTE, con el solar “A” que se segrega, en distancia de ciento noventa y dos punto cuatro mil setecientos cincuenta y cuatro (192.4754) metros por el SUR, con el cauce del Río Cañas en
varias alineaciones, en distancia de cincuenta y dos punto cuatro mil cuatrocientos sesenta y nueve (52.4469) metros; y por el NORESTE, con la carretera insular número setecientos noventa y ocho (798), distancia de cuarenta y cinco punto dos mil quinientos noventa y dos (45.2592) metros. Finca número cincuenta y un mil seiscientos sesenta y nueve (51,669) inscrita al folio ciento cincuenta (150) del tomo mil cuatrocientos ochenta y nueve (1489) de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Seccion Primera de Caguas. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens. WHEREFORE, the FIRST public sale will be held on January 31th, 2025, at 9:00 am, and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $4,104,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on February 7th, 2025, at 9:00 am, and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $2,736,000.00. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction shall be held on February 14th, 2025, at 9:00 am, and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $2,052,000.00. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the Stipulated Judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the Unites States District Court. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 30 day of December, 2024 Joel Ronda-Feliciano, Special Master. Tel: (787) 565-0515 email: rondajoel@me.com.
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DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. JOSÉ REINALDO CASTRO CONCEPCIÓN; NANCY ELIZABETH CUADRADO ESTRADA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2024CV00806. Salón Núm.: 403. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: JOSÉ REINALDO CASTRO CONCEPCIÓN; NANCY ELIZABETH CUADRADO ESTRADA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS: Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:
El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e 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: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Lomas Verdes, situada en el Barrio Minillas de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización, con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: número del solar: uno de la manzana cuatro S. Área del solar: quinientos veintitrés metros cuadrados con sesenta centímetros. En lindes: por el NORTE, con el solar dos, distancia de diecinueve metros con treinta y nueve centímetros; por el SUR, con la calle cincuenta y dos, distancia de quince metros con veintisiete centímetros; por
el ESTE, con el solar veinticuatro, distancia de treinta y dos metros con quince centímetros; por el OESTE, con la calle cincuenta y nueve, distancia de treinta y un metros. Consta inscrita al folio 201 del tomo 383 de Bayamón Sur, Finca Número #17,134, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Bayamón. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Urbanización Lomas Verdes, 4S1 Calle Tulipán, Bayamón, P.R. 00956. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $121,245.00, con intereses al 6.25% anual, vencedero el día 1 de julio de 2044, constituida mediante la escritura número 128, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de junio de 2014, ante el notario José M. Biaggi Junquera, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Bayamón Sur, finca número 17,134, inscripción 8va. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 5 DE FEBRERO DE 2025 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $121,245.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 12 DE FEBRERO DE 2025 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $80,830.00. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 19 DE FEBRERO DE 2025 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $60,622.50. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: La suma global de $106,140.98, la cual se desglosa a continuación: la suma principal de $103,901.39, con intereses a 6.25% anual, desde el 1ro de agosto de 2023, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más una suma
principal diferida (piggyback) de $2,239.59, la cual no genera intereses, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más una suma equivalente a $12,124.50, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, 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. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 20 de diciembre de 2024. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN LEGACY MORTGAGE
ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1
Parte Demandante Vs. ANGEL LUIS HERNANDEZ OLIVO
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV06354. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO-
TECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $154,782.91 de balance principal, más los intereses vencidos sobre el principal computados al 5.62500% anual desde el día 1ero de septiembre de 2021 hasta su total pago; más el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad por concepto de cargos por demora hasta su total pago; más la suma garantizada en la hipoteca para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado del acreedor demandante, más cualesquiera otras sumas que por cualesquier concepto legal se devenguen hasta el total y completo pago de esta sentencia hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RÚSTICA: Parcela en el Barrio Quebrada Arenas de Rio Piedras, municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico, de forma triangular con un área de mil trescientos siete punto mil quinientos setenta y dos (1,307.1572) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con Adolfo Vilanova, antes Cristina Reyes; por el Sur, con la parcela letra “D” a segregarse de la finca principal a dedicarse a uso publico y el camino municipal, antes Bonifacio Vigio; por el Este, con la parcela ya segregada propiedad de Luis R. Rivera Rosa y Martina Cotto Ayala (la cual fue segregada de la finca principal); y por el Oeste, con Adolfo Vilanova, antes Pedro Figueroa. Enclava Casa. Es el remanente de esta finca luego de descontado un solar segregado de setecientos punto mil doscientos cuarenta y seis metros cuadrados, según surge de la escritura cuatrocientos setenta y uno (471), otorgada en San Juan el 31 de agosto de mil novecientos noventa y nueve, ante el Notario Pedro J. Caride Cruz, inscrita al margen de la inscripción décima 10ma. Inscrita al folio ciento treinta y uno (131) del Tomo ciento sesenta y ocho (168) de Rio Piedras
llevará a cabo el día 18 de febrero de 2025, a las 9:15 de la mañana, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $110,730.00 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 día 25 de febrero de 2024, a las 9:15 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 $73,820.00. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 5 de marzo de 2025, a las 9:15 de la mañana, y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $55,365.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el
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importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. 210-2015). Expedido el presente en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 10 de enero de 2025. RAMON
L. HERNANDEZ CINTRON, PLACA 580, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAGUAS.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA.
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante vs. JONATHAN J. HERNÁNDEZ ROBLES
Demandado CIVIL NÚM.: TA2024CV01013. 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: JONATHAN J. HERNÁNDEZ ROBLES
Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lcdo. Jean Paul Juliá Díaz, Rivera-Munich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, PR 00936-4908; Tel. (787) 6222323 / Fax (787) 622-2320. Se le advierte que este Edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al 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 Superior, Sala de Toa Alta, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. En un término de diez (10) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, la parte demandante le notificará por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias del Emplazamiento por Edicto y de la Demanda a sus últimas direcciones conocidas: Bo. Villa Light, Carr. 806 Km. 0.1, Toa Alta, Puerto Rico 00953 y RR 6 Box 6843, Toa Alta, Puerto Rico 00953. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, a 17 DE ENERO DE 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, Secretario. M. Bonilla, Sub-Secretario.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE TOA ALTA. Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, por sí y en representación de Liriam Carrucini Mendoza
Demandante vs. Oriental Bank, como sucesor en derecho de Scotiabank de Puerto Rico, antes RG Mortgage Corporation; John Doe y Richard Doe Demandado CIVIL NÚM.: TA2024CV01042.
SOBRE: Cancelación 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: John Doe, Richard Doe
Quedan ustedes notificados que la demandante de epígrafe ha radicado en este Tribunal una Demanda contra ustedes como co-demandados, en la que se solicita la cancelación vía judicial de un Pagaré Hipotecario extraviado ante el Notario Público Roberto L. Varela Muñiz, bajo affidávit número 1,419, a favor de RG Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma de $34,513.00, con intereses al 8 1/2% anual y vencedero el 1ro de noviembre de 2019, suscrito el día 27 de octubre de 1989, garantizado por hipoteca constituida en virtud de la Escritura Número 54, otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Roberto L. Varela Muñiz. El mencionado pagaré hipotecario grava una propiedad inmueble,
que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 15 del Bloque E en el Plano de la Urbanización Toa Linda, radicada en el Barrio Piñas del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 367.20 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número 16 del propio bloque, en una distancia de 25.50 metros; por el SUR, con el solar número 14 del propio bloque, en distancia de 25.50 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número 8 del propio bloque, en una distancia de 14.40 metros; y por el OESTE, con la calle número 3, en una distancia de 14.40 metros. Enclava una casa de hormigón armado y bloques para fines residenciales.” Consta inscrita al Folio Sesenta y Seis (66) del Tomo Doscientos Cincuenta y Dos (252) de Toa Alta, Finca Número Doce Mil Doscientos Cincuenta y Cinco (12,255), Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Tercera (III) de Bayamón. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lic. Antonio A. Hernández Almodóvar, RiveraMunich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, Puerto Rico 009364908; Tel. (787) 622-2323 / Fax (787) 622-2320. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma en el Tribunal de Toa Alta, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al 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, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del edicto, se le anotará la Rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de enero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, Secretario. M. BONILLA, Sub-Secretario.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE SAN JUAN. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante vs. SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ
ENRIQUE MALDONADO MOULIERT, ET AL.
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2024cv04923. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO E INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTOS. Estados Unidos de América, El Presidente de los Estados Unidos, El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. SS. A: JULIA MALDONADO, JOSÉ ENRIQUE JR. MALDONADO, NEREIDA MALDONADO, GABRIEL MALDONADO Y KARLA MALDONADO T/C/C CARLA MALDONADO COMO ÚNICOS Y UNIVERSALES HEREDEROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ ENRIQUE MALDONADO MOULIERT
Por la presente se les notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Segunda Demanda Enmendada en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lcdo. Jean Paul Juliá Díaz, Rivera-Munich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, PR 009364908; Tel. (787) 622-2323 / Fax (787) 622-2320. Se les advierte que este Edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Segunda Demanda Enmendada radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior, Sala de San Juan, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Emplazamiento e Interpelación por Edicto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Segunda Demanda Enmendada sin más citarles ni oírles. En un término de diez (10) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, la parte demandante le notificará por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias del Emplazamiento e Interpelación por Edicto y de la Segunda Demanda Enmendada a sus últimas direcciones conocidas. A la codemandada Julia Maldonado a su última dirección conocida en: 3244 Somerset Park Dr., Orlando, FL 32824 y a la codemandada Nereida Maldonado a su última dirección conocida en: 371 Hawthorne St., Keyport, NJ 07735. Este Tribunal exime a la parte demandante del requisito impuesto por la Regla 4.6 de
las de Procedimiento Civil (32 L.P.R.A. Ap. V, R. 4.6) de enviar por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copia de la Segunda Demanda Enmendada y del Emplazamiento e Interpelación por Edicto a su última dirección postal de los codemandados José Enrique Jr. Maldonado, Gabriel Maldonado y Karla Maldonado t/c/c Carla Maldonado, por desconocerse la misma. Se les interpela judicialmente además conforme al Art. 959 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, edición 1930 (31 L.P.R.A. § 2787), para que en un término de treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado el Emplazamiento e Interpelación por Edicto, excluyéndose el día de su publicación, acepten o renuncien mediante instrumento público o comparecencia judicial especial la herencia del causante José Enrique Maldonado Mouliert, apercibiéndoseles que, de no expresarse dentro de dicho término, se tendrá por aceptada la herencia. B.B.V.A. v. Latinoamericana, 164 D.P.R. 689 (2005). Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 17 de enero de 2025. GRISELDA RODDRIGUEZ COLLADO, Secretario. F/MICHELLE RIVERA RIOS, Sub-Secretario.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN GERMÁN.
POPULAR AUTO LLC
Demandante v. IRAIDA E. ORTIZ RODRÍGUEZ Y CYD MARIE SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ
Demandadas
CIVIL NUM.: SG2024CV00789. SOBRE: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GRAVAMEN MOBILIARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. Estados Unidos de América, El Presidente de los Estados Unidos, El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. SS. A: IRAIDA E. ORTIZ RODRÍGUEZ
Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lcdo. Jean Paul Juliá Díaz, Rivera-Munich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, PR 00936-4908; Tel. (787) 6222323 / Fax (787) 622-2320. Se le advierte que este Edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al 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 Superior, Sala de San Germán, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. En un término de diez (10) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, la parte demandante le notificará por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias del Emplazamiento por Edicto y de la Demanda a sus últimas direcciones conocidas: Parcelas Carolina 74, Carr. 330 Km. 2.5, San Germán, PR 00683 y Urb. El Real, 181 Calle Mansiones, Sábana Grande, PR 00637. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, San Germán, Puerto Rico, a 17 de enero de 2025. LCDA. NORMA G SANTANA IRIZARRY, Secretario. MILITZA LORENZO VEGA, Sub-Secretario.
LEGAL
NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
PARQUE ESCORIAL RESIDENCIAL OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. TANYA MONTAÑEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandado(s)
Civil Núm.: CA2024CV03293. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDNIARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., S.S. A: TANYA MONTAÑEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS. Queda emplazada y notificada que en este Tribunal ha radicado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero Ordinario, en contra de la parte demandada. Se le notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso. POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación respon-
siva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciando este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. 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: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar 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 sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la demanda radicando en su contra, radicando el original de la misma y enviando copia de su contestación a la parte demandante, Lcda. Ana J. Bobonis Zequeira a su dirección PO Box 9749 San Juan, PR 00908, Tel. (787) 7223040, Fax (787) 722-3317, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de su publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se le dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE TRIBUNAL. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de enero de 2025. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO ASOCIACIÓN DE CONDÓMINOS CONDOMINIO HILLSIDE VILLAGE Demandante V. EDWARD AUGUST SUNDBERG Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: FA2024CV01013. (Salón: 301). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JORGE ENRIQUE VALLDEJULI REYES - JVALLDEJULI@DLVPR. COM. A: EDWARD AUGUST SUNDBERG, LESLIE JEAN DAHN SUNDBERG, SUNDBERG-DAHN, SOCIEDAD DE BIENES GANANCIALES Y OTROS - 123 E. FOSTER ST., MELROSE, MA 02176; COND. HILLSIDE VILLAGE, 23 HILLSIDE VILLAGE, RÍO GRANDE,
PR 00745.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de enero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 14 de enero de 2025. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 14 de enero de 2025. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. SHEILA ROBLES
HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. AGRIPINA IRIZARRY HERNÁNDEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV07589. (Salón: 604 CIVIL). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
FERNANDO J. GIERBOLINI GONZÁLEZ - FGIERBOLINI@ MSGLAWPR.COM.
A: AGRIPINA IRIZARRY HERNÁNDEZ.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 10 de enero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos
de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de enero de 2025. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 16 de enero de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MARILY LÓPEZ MARTÍNEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO
VMF HOLDING, LLC H/N/C RENAISSANCE
VILLA MARINA H/N/C VILLA MARINA
Demandante V. JOHN G. SANCHEZ SANTOS Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: FA2024CV00684.
(Salón: 303). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. AMARYS VELLISE BOLORÍN SOLIVÁN - A.BOLORIN@ LUGOMENDER.COM.
LUIS JAVIER SOTOMAYOR LANDRÓN - LSOTOMAYOR@ LUGOMENDER.COM. A: CONYUGE A, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR CONYUGE A Y JOHN G. SANCHEZ SANTOS; Y TITULAR ABC - CALLE PEPITA ALBANDOZ #93, CANOVANAS PR 00729; URB. PEDREGALES APT. A21 CALLE GRANITO, RIO GRANDE, PR 00745; URB PEDREGALES BUZON 163 RIO GRANDE, PR 00745. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de enero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi-
miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 15 de enero de 2025. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 15 de enero de 2025. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. ANA CELIÍS MÁRQUEZ APONTE, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE CAGUAS MCS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
Demandante V. EMPRESAS ORVAZ LLC
Demandado(a) Civil: JU2024CV00171. 703. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: EMPRESAS ORVAZ LLC - PO BOX 271 GURABO, PR 00778 HC 02 BOX 9830 JUNCOS. PR 00777. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de diciembre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 17 de enero de 2025. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 17 de enero de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. LIZ WHARTON ROSA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE FAJARDO
MIRIAM
MOREIRA MEDINA
T/C/C MIRIAM MEDINA
Demandante Vs. RG MORTGAGE CORPORATION; ORIENTAL BANK; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE
Demandados
Caso Núm.: FA2024CV01239. Salón Núm.: SALÓN 307. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADO UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: RG MORTGAGE CORPORATION; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE.
Quede emplazada y notificada que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Ejecución de Hipoteca y Cobro de Dinero. POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted debe de 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: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, 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, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
EXPEDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA Y SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL. En Fajardo Puerto Rico, hoy 08 de enero de 2025. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA GENERAL. LINDA I MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. LUIS F BURGOS BANCHS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: PO2024CV01780. (Salón: 604 CIVIL SUPERIOR).
Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM.
A: LUIS F. BURGOS BANCHS. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de enero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 15 de enero de 2025. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 15 de enero de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. ELBA SANTOS ORTIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. MARIA V FLORES LLANOS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: LU2024CV00045. (Salón: 301). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JORGE QUIÑONES INSERNIJORGEQ.LAW@GMAIL.COM. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. A: MARIA V. FLORES
LLANOS - HACIENDA MARGARITA, 80 CALLE INGENIO, LUQUILLO PR 00773; PO BOX 1162 LUQUILLO PR 00773. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 14 de enero de 2025, este
Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de enero de 2025. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 16 de enero de 2025. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. SHEILA ROBLES HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. DOLORES V. CARMONA OSORIO Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CN2024CV00260. (Civil: 408). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. KENMUEL JOSÉ RUIZ LÓPEZKENMUEL.RUIZ@ORF-LAW.COM. A: DOLORES V. CARMONA OSORIO, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de enero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia
Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 13 de enero de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 13 de enero de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. JORGE L. MERCADO REYES
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CR2024CV00132. (Salón: 002). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JAN MIGUEL OTERO MARTÍNEZJAN.OTERO@ORF-LAW.COM. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. A: JORGE L. MERCADO REYES - HC 4 BOX 6640, COMERIO, PR 00782. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 03 de enero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 14 de enero de 2025. En Comerío, Puerto Rico, el 14 de enero de 2025. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RI-
VERA, SECRETARIA. MARÍA I. CRUZ ORTIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE FAJARDO LEGACY MORTGAGE ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1 Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE MARIA DOLORES CARRILLO DE LEON T/C/C MARIA DOLORES CARRILLO T/C/C MARIA D. CARRILLO DE LEON, COMPUESTA POR ROGELIO LUIS ROBLES CARRILLO; MARIA MILAGROS FARGAS CARRILLO; LUIS FELIPE FARGAS CARRILLO; SUCESIÓN DE JOSE DOLORES ORTIZ SANTANA COMPUESTA POR: FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM) Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2021CV00564. Salón Núm.: 307. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LUIS FELIPE FARGAS CARRILLO Y ROGELIO LUIS ROBLES CARRILLO, COMO HEREDEROS DE MARIA DOLORES CARRILLO DE LEON; SARA ORTIZ COMO HEREDERA DE JOSE DOLORES ORTIZ SANTANA Y FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAI COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE JOSE DOLORES ORTIZ SATNANA. 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 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 demandan-
te, Lcdo. Roberto C. Látimer Valentín, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de 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 marzo de 2021, 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 la suma principal de $20,609.97, más intereses a razón del 5.004% anual, desde el 1ro de febrero de 2021, hasta el presente, y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo una suma equivalente al 10% de la suma principal ($11,535.99), por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte Demandante presentará 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: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 141-B, en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Espanta Sueño del Barrio Florencio del término municipal de Fajardo, con una cabida superficial de 842.06 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con parcela número 142 de la Comunidad; por el SUR, con Calle de la Comunidad; por el ESTE, con parcela número 141-A de la Comunidad; y por el OESTE, con parcela número 141-C de la Comunidad. Consta inscrita al folio 275 del tomo 307 de Fajardo, finca número #13,263, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. SE LE 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. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Fajardo, Puerto Rico. A 08 de enero de 2025. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
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U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR RCF 2 ACQUISITION TRUST Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE EUFEMIA CIRINO ORTIZ T/C/C EUFEMIA CIRINO, SUCESIÓN DE AGESIMO OSORIO CALDERON AMBAS COMPUESTAS POR SUS HIJOS NYDIA
OSORIO CIRINO, FELIPE OSORIO
CIRINO, FREDDY OSORIO CIRINO, ROGELIO OSORIO
CIRINO, AMANDA
OSORIO CIRINO, MARIBEL OSORIO
CIRINO, JAIME OSORIO
CIRINO, HECTOR
OSORIO CIRINO, VIRGEN OSORIO CIRINO; FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN; SUCESIÓN DE ANA MARIA OSORIO CIRINO COMPUESTA POR MENGANO DE TAL Y MENGANA DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS
MUNICIPALES (CRIM), COMO PARTE CON POSIBLE INTERÉS Demandados Civil Núm.: LO2023CV00004. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. 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 procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo,
January 23, 2025
cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 4 DE MARZO DE 2025 A LAS 9:45 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: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número doscientos cincuenta en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Vieques del Barrio Medianía Alta del término municipal de Loíza, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cero cuerdas con setecientos sesenta y tres diezmilésimas de otra, equivalente a trescientos metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con parcela número doscientos cuarenta y nueve de la comunidad; por el SUR, con parcela número doscientos cincuenta y uno de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con terrenos propiedad de Sucesión Juan Suárez; y por el OESTE, con Calle número seis de la comunidad. Consta inscrita al folio 78 del tomo 137 de Loíza, finca número 7,466, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Tercera de Carolina. Propiedad localizada en: Parcelas Vieques, P250 Calle 6, Loíza, PR 00772 t/c/c Parcelas Vieques, Calle 6 Número 250, Loíza, PR 00772. Según figura en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas preferentes ni posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante. 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 mínimo de subasta la suma de $42,538.99, 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 11 DE MARZO DE 2025 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $28,359.33 dos tercios (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la
segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $21,269.49 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 18 DE MARZO DE 2025 A LAS 9:45 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 a la suma principal de $21,328.95 de principal; más intereses a razón de 2.00400% anual desde el 2 de febrero de 2017, hasta el saldo total de la deuda, recargos por demora mensuales desde el 2 de marzo de 2017 equivalentes a 5% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo de la deuda, las primas de seguro contra riesgos, contribuciones y/o seguro hipotecario; recargos por demora; los créditos accesorios; adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y cualquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha de total pago de las mismas, más la suma de $8,507.80 para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, según pactados.; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, todo ello de acuerdo a los términos de la Sentencia dictada, la cual es final y firme. 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 día 8 de enero de 2025. MARÍA MAYSONET RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HATILLO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. PEDRO JAVIER RUIZ ALMODOVAR Demandado
Civil Núm.: CFCD2014-0092. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA - IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: PEDRO JAVIER RUIZ ALMODOVAR. Yo, LUIS E. ROMÁN CARRERO, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 12 DE FEBRERO DE 2025, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Camuy, Camuy, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Hatillo 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 día 20 DE FEBRERO DE 2025, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el 27 DE FEBRERO DE 2025, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RÚSTICA: REMANENTE: Parcela número Cuatro (4) radicada en el Barrio Naranjito del término municipal de Hatillo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de SIETE MIL SETECIENTOS NUEVE PUNTO CERO OCHO UNO TRES (7,709.0813) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, con tierras de Juan Delgado Colón y Manuel García Mena; por el SUR, con camino que conduce a finca de Félix García; por el ESTE, con tierras de Gregorio Toledo y Rosalina García; y por el OESTE, con tierras de Juan Delgado Colón y Carretera Estatal número Ciento Treinta (130) de Hatillo a Lares. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Hatillo, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección Segunda, finca número 2,387, inscripción décimo primera. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Parcela 4, Barrio Naranjito, 130 SR, KM. 5.3, Hatillo, Puerto Rico. La Subasta se
llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $99,311.01 de principal, intereses al 8.25% anual, desde el 1ro. de mayo de 2014, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $13,460.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $134,600.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $89,733.33 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $67,300.00. De declararse desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta 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. 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 y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, 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 a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otros créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Camuy, Puerto Rico, 9 de enero de 2025. WILFREDO OLMO SALAZAR, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. LUIS E. ROMÁN CARRERO, ALGUACIL, DIVISIÓN DE EJECUCIÓN DE
SENTENCIAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAMUY.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE FAJARDO LEGACY MORTGAGE ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1 Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE MARIA DOLORES CARRILLO DE LEON T/C/C MARIA DOLORES CARRILLO T/C/C MARIA D. CARRILLO DE LEON, COMPUESTA POR ROGELIO LUIS ROBLES CARRILLO; MARIA MILAGROS FARGAS CARRILLO; LUIS FELIPE FARGAS CARRILLO; SUCESIÓN DE JOSE DOLORES ORTIZ SANTANA COMPUESTA POR: FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2021CV00564. Salón Núm.: 307. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LUIS FELIPE FARGAS CARRILLO Y ROGELIO LUIS ROBLES CARRILLO, COMO HEREDEROS DE MARIA DOLORES CARRILLO DE LEON; SARA ORTIZ COMO HEREDERA DE JOSE DOLORES ORTIZ SANTANA Y FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAI COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE JOSE DOLORES ORTIZ SATNANA.
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 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 demandan-
te, Lcdo. Roberto C. Látimer Valentín, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de 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 marzo de 2021, 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 la suma principal de $20,609.97, más intereses a razón del 5.004% anual, desde el 1ro de febrero de 2021, hasta el presente, y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo una suma equivalente al 10% de la suma principal ($11,535.99), por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte Demandante presentará 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: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 141-B, en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Espanta Sueño del Barrio Florencio del término municipal de Fajardo, con una cabida superficial de 842.06 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con parcela número 142 de la Comunidad; por el SUR, con Calle de la Comunidad; por el ESTE, con parcela número 141-A de la Comunidad; y por el OESTE, con parcela número 141-C de la Comunidad. Consta inscrita al folio 275 del tomo 307 de Fajardo, finca número #13,263, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. SE LE 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. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Fajardo, Puerto Rico. A 08 de enero de 2025. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
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By THE STAR STAFF
For the last six months, Armstrong
Muhoozi has been putting in the work, lugging his baseball equipment about a mile uphill from his ramshackle home to a rutted, bumpy field at Masese Co-Education Primary School. Sometimes, he makes this dusty trek twice a day, committed to perfecting his backhand on ground balls, creating separation between his upper and lower half on swings off the tee, and strengthening his already laserlike arm through a regimen of drills.
Muhoozi, 17, also hoofs it to a local gym where, for the equivalent of $1.35 a session, he rotates through a set of explosive medicine ball throws, dynamic shoulder exercises and increasingly heavy squats.
At night, he lies on a mattress on the floor of a room he shares with his mother, five siblings and cousin, the glow of his phone on his face as he scours the internet for video breakdowns of the swing of his idol, Mike Trout.
Last Wednesday, when teenagers across the globe joined MLB organizations on the first day of the international signing period, those family members — as well as uncles, aunts, more cousins, his grandmother and his teammates — gathered in a completely different setting: a celebratory boat cruise on the Nile River.
An hour later, the family crowded around an L-shaped table at a restaurant in his hometown, Jinja, a city of 93,000 about 60 miles east of Kampala, Uganda’s capital. Wearing a crisp white jersey while sitting in front of a banner featuring the black and gold logos of his new club and the black, red, and gold flag of Uganda, Muhoozi, who projects as an infielder,
meticulously printed his name on a contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates. His signing bonus of $45,000 is almost 70 times the median annual income of his fellow Ugandans.
For Muhoozi, just the fifth player from this East African nation to sign with an MLB organization and the second position player, signing a seven-year minor league deal is the first step in what he hopes will be a baseball journey that takes him from a makeshift field overlooking the Nile halfway around the world to the banks of the Allegheny.
At a hair under 5-foot-10, Muhoozi is not a hulking, can’t-miss specimen. Living in Uganda — where baseball remains largely unknown, fields and equipment remain scarce, and leagues and teams are haphazard and irregular — he has not run the gantlet of high-level pitching that American players in travel leagues have been battling through their teenage years. It is not obvious at first glance why he will soon be boarding a plane for the Pirates’ Dominican complex. But he quickly makes it clear.
Muhooz has a cannon of an arm: He long tosses the length of a football field before he crow-hops to a pitcher’s screen, uncorking balls that register over 95 mph on hand-held radar guns. He sprints past corn stalks that line the outfield and then smacks soft-toss balls on a beeline toward mooing cows.
Muhoozi’s tools came to the attention of the Pirates international scout Tom Gillespie, who watched the prospect on a video early last year. He was intrigued enough that he made plans to spend three days with Muhoozi on his next trip to Africa several months later.
“I could see the explosiveness. I could see the quickness and the bat speed, and I was like, those things will translate,” Gillespie said. Uganda might seem a surprising place for baseball talent to blossom. Most of the population has never seen a baseball field. And yet here, where roughly half of the population lives in poverty, there’s an academy run by baseball’s richest team, the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The academy, known to players and coaches simply as “the complex,” is behind a blue-and-white painted wall in Mpigi, 85 miles west of Jinja. The only one of its kind in Uganda, the complex is similar to the academies major league organizations have in the Dominican Republic: A combination academic and baseball school, where players live, go to class, and compete with one another from their preteen years through high school.
Baseball was introduced in Uganda in the 1990s by coaches from the United States and Japan. In 2002, Richard Stanley, an American chemical engineer and a former part-owner of the New York Yankees’ then-Class AA affiliate Trenton Thunder, helped start a Little League program in the country. He began a program that would lead to the building of a baseball academy, the Allen VR Stanley Secondary School. Players from the school would make up a team that traveled to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to compete in the 2015 Little League World Series. Much of the school became the Dodgers’ academy in 2019.
Baseball grew in other pockets around the country, too: In Luwero, for example, two hours north of Kampala, there are multiple primary school fields where as many as 50 children gather each day to practice. Those fields have produced three of the four other players who have signed with MLB organizations: Ben Serunkuma and Umar Male, who signed with the Dodgers in 2022, and David Matoma, a Pirates prospect who signed in 2023.
Muhoozi says his four years at the academy, which started in January 2020 when he was 12, were a godsend.
“That’s where I got to grow big,” he said. “I ate well. I slept well.”
As a young child, Muhoozi walked a half-mile to the Jinja Army Primary Boarding School each morning. One day in May 2019, representatives from the Dodgers held a tryout there. It was the first time Muhoozi had ever held a baseball or swung a bat.
“The bat was really heavy,” Muhoozi
said. “It felt awkward. I wasn’t hitting the balls because everything was different from what I expected — I was used to playing cricket.”
Still, Dodgers scouts liked what they saw. The next year, Muhoozi was at the complex.
With Gillespie’s assurance that he would be signed this month, Muhoozi quit the academy, forgoing the exams he would need to pass to graduate. He headed home to Jinja to work and wait for his signing day, trekking up and down the hill to Masese school, and peppering Gillespie and others with videos and texts asking them to critique his swing and fielding form.
Gillespie thinks Muhoozi could be a second or third baseman, but with his speed and arm, he could wind up in center field. Muhoozi’s work ethic and coachability, combined with his talent, convinced Gillespie that he was the best Ugandan position player prospect he had ever scouted.
“Anytime he’s given any advice, he goes and tries to put it into practice right away, and does that effectively,” Gillespie said. “Whatever his environment is, every day he wakes up and he tries to figure out how he’s going to get better.”
In a matter of days, that setting will be the Pirates’ 46-acre Dominican complex in El Toro.
And when Muhoozi returns home to Jinja, he has another focus: to use his signing bonus to build his mother a house.
“My dream is to make her happy,” he said. “Being poor isn’t a bad thing, but it gives you motivation so that you push yourself an extra mile.”
Armstrong Muhoozi, seen here with his grandmother and mother in Jinja, Uganda, signed a seven-year minor league contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates last week. (X via Antonio Torres)
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