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PREPA, USACE sign MOU to develop water projects
By THE STAR STAFF
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) Executive
Director Josué A. Colón Ortiz and Brig. Gen. Daniel Hibner, the commander of the South Atlantic Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), have signed a memorandum of understanding to support the public corporation in the development and management of dam, reservoir, irrigation canal, and hydroelectric generation infrastructure projects funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
“The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers possesses the technical capability, equipment, personnel, and extensive experience in these systems, as well as the expertise to develop these types of projects,” Colón Ortiz said in a statement from Dvids.
The PREPA chief noted that the collaborative agreement with USACE is the first for the newly established Caribbean District, which will handle projects in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The agreement is set to last for 10 years and includes services such as planning, engineering, design, construction, permitting, and project management as required by PREPA.
“Securing the services of USACE ensures that the public corporation will execute projects in compliance with the latest industry standards, technology, and procedures of the relevant
federal agencies,” Colón Ortiz emphasized.
Hibner noted that the agreement establishes a clear regulatory framework that will define the roles and responsibilities of both entities in the projects.
“The projects to be conducted under this agreement are designed to enhance the quality of life for the residents of Puerto Rico,” he said. “USACE will provide our resources, knowledge, and expertise to ensure that these projects are completed in an efficient and effective manner.”
Following Hurricane Maria in 2017, PREPA requested FEMA’s assistance to execute infrastructure repair projects for water and hydroelectric systems totaling over $2 billion. Among the potential work covered by the agreement are improvements to dams, dredging of bodies of water, and repairs to water supply systems for hydroelectric plants, among others.
Priority issues will include upgrades to the Patillas Dam, which provides potable water for 100,000 residents in the area and supplies water to the AES power plant and the public irrigation system from Patillas to Salinas.
The Guayabal Dam between Villalba and Juana Díaz is another priority project. The concrete structure is intended to supply the public irrigation system between Juana Díaz and Salinas and to the Puerto Rico Aqueducts and Sewer Authority filtration plant in Coto Laurel, Ponce.
New municipal administrative platform installed in Caguas
By THE STAR STAFF
Caguas Mayor William Miranda Torres announced Monday the successful implementation of the SAP S/4HANA system, the latest and most advanced version of the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) platform, which he said “will transform municipal administrative work and will bring significant benefits to both the municipality and local businesses of our city, aligning it with the best global practices in administrative work and support of businesses.”
“This system will permit us to operate in a more efficient manner, facilitating processes, improving decision making, and strengthening business development in Caguas,” the mayor said in a written statement.
“With the implementation of the SAP S/4HANA, we take a crucial step toward the modernization of our city,” Miranda Torres added. “The platform offers advanced capacities in data analysis, which will permit us to better understand the needs and preferences of our commercial partners, giving them a more personalized and agile experience.”
Among the specific benefits for the providers of products and services are: real-time access to critical information on contracts and business opportunities, and a more simplified payment process, including the direct deposit option and advanced analysis tools and reports that will
permit a more precise and efficient planning resource. The digitalization and automatization of many administrative processes will provide necessary time and resources for local businesses to do paperwork and access municipal services. That includes substantially improving the drafting and payment of patents, as well as other paperwork and municipal taxes.
“This initiative reaffirms the commitment of the Autonomous Municipality of Caguas to innovation and sustainable economic development,” the mayor said. “Upon integrating vanguard technology like SAP S/4HANA, we are creating an ecosystem that promotes investment and growth, to the benefit of our entire community. Collaboration between the public and private sector is essential to confront the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities of the future.”
Caguas Mayor William Miranda Torres
Work begins on novel $100 million economic development project in San Juan
By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia and Maretzie Díaz, the Deputy Secretary of Disaster Recovery in the Housing Department, announced the granting of a $15.2 million loan from Community Development Bank Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds for the rehabilitation of the Vimenti Education and Workforce Hub project, which will benefit the community of Villa Prades in San Juan, the Ernesto Ramos Antonini residential complex and adjacent communities.
Other government officials, including Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón, were also on hand for the groundbreaking.
The project, known as Oasis, will include renovating the existing structure and constructing new facilities with the objective of offering essential education and training services to integrate the most vulnerable communities into the workforce.
“The Oasis project is an example of social impact that seeks to address the socioeconomic needs and aspirations of our people in their own community,” the governor said. “The project was chosen for its high socioeconomic impact, particularly in the Villa Prades community and the Ramos Antonini residential complex. Oasis is receiving $15.2 million from IPG [the Economic Development Investment Portfolio Program] for a total investment of $42.7 million in this reconstruction, renovation and new construction project that will house the Vimenti school, from kindergarten to high school, a training and capacity building center, a business incubator and a health center. It is an important social project that will provide services and will greatly benefit this community and my administration is honored to support it.”
Pierluisi noted that “we have committed to Oasis not only with funds, but we are also collaborating with all the impact components of this project through the Department of Housing, the Department of Education, the Family Department, the Department of Economic Development
and Commerce and other government entities that are and will be supporting the work that is done here and that is now expanding with this comprehensive model. This is an example of how the private and nonprofit sector, along with the government, can work together to transform lives.”
The governor added that the Oasis proposal is so innovative and comprehensive that it has received million-dollar support from the federal government through Recompete funds, which is why U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves participated in the event.
“The Distressed Recompete Pilot Program is about making sure that everyone has a fair shot,” Graves said. “The Oasis Expansion Recompete Plan will create good paying jobs, invest in workforce development and training, and connect more people to life-changing opportunities.”
The new structure, which will be built with funds from the Economic Development Investment Portfolio Program (IPG), will offer a variety of services, including a school that will cover kindergarten through 12th grade, a training center for low-income people, a business incubator, and a health clinic. The school will be remodeled preserving its historical value, and will have a space dedicated to the exhibition of historical information about the facilities, in compliance with the memorandum of understanding signed with the Historic Preservation Office.
Housing Secretary William Rodríguez Rodríguez said “this project not only revitalizes a key space in the community, but will also become a catalyst for local economic development.”
“With the combined investment of public and private funds, we hope to generate a significant economic impact in San Juan, through the creation of direct jobs, and by attracting new business opportunities and services that will benefit the families of the residential area and the nearby communities,” he said.
The project will create a kind of one-stop shop that
will provide the low- and moderate-income sector with the necessary services to encourage social mobility.
Each component of the project will generate economic activity for the residents of Ernesto Ramos Antonini, Villa Padres and adjacent communities. Notably, the scope of work for the project includes the rehabilitation of abandoned facilities that were devastated by Hurricane Maria.
Eduardo Carrera, CEO of the Platform for Social Impact, said the mission of the OASIS project is to create sustainable pathways for families to overcome poverty.
“With an investment of $43 million for the OASIS Hub -- between private and public investment -- another $30 million through the Economic Development Agency (EDA) Recompete Program, and an additional commitment from the local government, the total investment in this project exceeds $100 million,” he said. “This combined financing model, which brings together public, private and philanthropic investment, has been designed to be replicable, allowing other communities in Puerto Rico and beyond to benefit from a comprehensive and sustainable approach. By combining education, health, and business development, the OASIS project establishes a clear path toward economic and social equity.”
The IPG uses CDBG-DR funds to provide loans of up to $50 million to leverage private sector financing and investment for larger-scale projects. The purpose of the IPG is to provide a financing opportunity that will foster the economic revitalization of the island by renewing, on a large scale, commercial and industrial activity through the creation of jobs. The program has an allocation of $800 million in CDBG-DR recovery funds. Of that sum, $600 million was allocated to provide complementary financing to projects with an uncovered need to be able to begin or complete the work.
“Thanks to a joint effort by different public and private sector [entities] and with a federal investment of $30 million that we supported from Congress, today the construction work begins on the Oasis HUB project …” González Colón posted on her Facebook page.
“I am honored to participate in this activity and to have supported the request for funds, but more than anything, I am extremely proud of this achievement,” she said. “This project is an example of the results that can be obtained when there is participation and commitment between the communities and the different public and private sectors of the island. It is anticipated that OASIS will impact over 35,000 people and will create a work and investment model that can be replicated and expanded in other communities. This increases their economic opportunities, as well as provides work and talent to our workforce, to our industries that need it so much. Today is a day of celebration for the community; they competed, dreamed, and won, and now it is Puerto Rico’s turn to see the future of that effort.”
“The Oasis project is an example of social impact that seeks to address the socioeconomic needs and aspirations of our people in their own community,” Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said. (Facebook via Governor Pierluisi)
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health clinic. (Facebook via Governor Pierluisi)
Ex-Treasury secretary urges global minimum tax adoption
By THE STAR STAFF
Former Treasury Secretary Teresita Fuentes urged the island government Monday to approve rules related to the global minimum tax to avoid losing competitiveness.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which comprises 38 countries in North and South America, Europe and Asia is pushing for the tax.
The global minimum tax is an OECD initiative to address the tax challenges arising from the digitalization and globalization of the economy.
“The purpose of the global minimum tax is to prevent the erosion of the tax base and the shifting of benefits to other jurisdictions that impose lower tax rates, so that multinational companies pay at least a minimum tax in each jurisdiction where they carry out operations,” Fuentes stated in OPAL, a legislative publication. “Two pillars achieve the purpose of a minimum tax. The first pillar determines where operations
are taxed according to nexus rules. Pillar II determines a minimum tax rate using various methodologies.”
More than 135 countries have joined the OECD initiative and are in various stages of adopting the second pillar through legislation in their jurisdictions.
Puerto Rico has historically depended on its incentive laws to attract foreign investment. Manufacturing represents 45% of the gross domestic product.
“The OECD rules will significantly affect the competitiveness of this sector in Puerto Rico if they are not adopted locally,” Fuentes said. “As a territory, Puerto Rico’s adoption of the OECD rules depends on the approval of the United States, which has not yet stated whether it will apply them. Not adopting the Pillar II rules could cause the difference between the 15% global minimum tax and the 4% currently paid by exempt companies in Puerto Rico to be paid to other foreign jurisdictions, where manufacturing companies operating in Puerto Rico also operate.”
“This situation, together with energy costs and the com-
plexity of the logistics of operating in Puerto Rico, may cause the island to lose its attractiveness as a jurisdiction for manufacturing,” she added.
Candidates join lawmakers for NPP election tour
By THE STAR STAFF
Continuing his tour of the island to promote voter participation in the Nov. 5 status plebiscite, Rep. José Aponte Hernández joined on Sunday with San Lorenzo Mayor Jaime Alverio Ramos, District 33 Rep. Ángel Peña Ramírez, District 7 Sen. Wanda “Wandy” Soto Tolentino and New Progressive Party candidate for resident commissioner William Villafañe Ramos to take the message to the streets of the importance of participating in the general elections.
“This next Nov. 5 is a very important moment for
Villafañe
By THE STAR STAFF
Nvows to advocate
ew Progressive Party (NPP) candidate for resident commissioner William Villafañe Ramos held a meeting Monday with several leaders of the Dominican community in Puerto Rico to discuss his proposals and initiatives in favor of the sector.
During the meeting, which was attended by Consul of the Dominican Republic in Puerto Rico César Cedeño and Gaudy Gómez, director of the Office of Immigrants and Civil Rights of the Municipality of San Juan, legislation and initiatives in favor of the Dominican community were reviewed and the Immigrants’ Bill of Rights was presented, along with a bill that would create an Office of the Immigrant Advocate.
“As resident commissioner, I will have the same commitment to the Dominican community,” the NPP senator said. “I recognize the contribution that these brothers and sisters from our neighboring country have made. We are one people,
all those who treasure their U.S. citizenship and the permanent union with the United States, the equality of rights, statehood,” the veteran pro-statehood lawmaker said. “That’s why we are here, encouraging you to go out and vote in the general elections and the plebiscite; your vote is very important.”
Also present were at-large Senate candidate Leyda Cruz and House District 34 (Yabucoa, Maunabo, Patillas and San Lorenzo) candidate Christian Muriel and Humacao District Senate candidate Luis Daniel Colón.
In the afternoon, a motor caravan visited the San Lorenzo neighborhoods of Jagual, Quemado, Cerro Gordo
an Espino, among others, as well as the traditional San Juan area, with the purpose of dialoguing with the residents about the status plebiscite, as well as the public work that the mayor has done since he was sworn in January, 2021.
“San Lorenzo today is an example of what a mayor committed to the social and economic development of his people can do, as is the case with my friend Jaime Alverio,” Aponte added. “His work, his project and the attention to our people is felt in every corner of this municipality, the so-called ‘51st State.’ For this, this Saturday we will accompany him in the ‘Rally de la Obra.’”
for Dominican community as resident commissioner
intertwined, and there is a bridge that connects us. What we want to achieve is that there is no legal or opportunity limitation under any circumstances. In Washington, we will make sure that you are heard.”
Villafañe identified existing federal legislation that he said will facilitate the naturalization process, as well as bills such as: the American Dream and Promise Act and the Dignity Act, both of which promote and facilitate the dignified reception of Dominicans who arrive on U.S. shores.
Among other topics, Villafañe added that “our next governor, Jenniffer González Colón, her work team and this public servant, are clear about the need to reestablish energy service in Puerto Rico to, among other things, contribute to economic development.”
“If the Dominican business community is open to collaborating on the reconstruction of Puerto Rico, they will have open arms,’ he said. “We are going to put a lot of emphasis on strengthening collaboration.”
Cedeño said “I am very happy as a Dominican. The fact that this dialogue took place with the Dominican community and that he can listen to our needs is a great step forward.”
“As resident commissioner, he will have the full support of the government of the Dominican Republic in Puerto Rico,” the consul said.
“William is a hard-working person who remains humble and at the service of our community,” said Dr. Mario Paulino, leader of the Dominican community in Puerto Rico.
During the event, Villafañe urged the Dominican community to exercise their right to vote.
“Our mayor Miguel Romero has been a great ally of the Dominican community and has worked hard for all of San Juan,” he said. “He deserves four more years.”
Villafañe added that he will work to protect the rights to health and education of the immigrant community, as well as to create tax relief, legislation to protect and encourage manufacturing, and economic incentives for moderate-income jurisdictions.
Former Puerto Rico Treasury Secretary Teresita Fuentes
Harris’ debate challenge: Pushing ahead without leaving Biden behind
By KATIE ROGERS and ERICA L. GREEN
Vice President Kamala Harris will try to use her debate tonight against former President Donald Trump to argue that Americans are ready to turn the page on the politics of the past decade, with its turmoil and social animus.
But Trump, standing just feet away, is likely to make a different case: He is expected to try to paint Harris as the candidate of the status quo.
The debate will pose a challenge for Harris, who will have to decide how much to embrace or distance herself from President Joe Biden and his policies at a moment when polls show that many Americans are hungry for change. It is a conundrum other vice presidents have faced while seeking the presidency, and Harris’ allies said she would have to tread carefully as she makes a case for herself.
“She can praise Biden and talk about the accomplishments, but also acknowledge that the work is not done,” said Bakari Sellers, an ally of Harris and a Democratic political commentator. “So she has to be willing to display to the American people a level of empathy and understanding, and not simply say everything we did was God’s gift to politics.”
A recent poll by The New York Times and Siena College highlighted the difficult task Harris faces. It found that 61% of likely voters said the next president should represent a major change from Biden. Only 25% said Harris represented that change, while 53% said Trump did.
One of the most glaring vulnerabilities for the vice president is an economy that is stable but whose benefits many voters say they cannot feel. The poll found that Trump held a 13-percentage-point advantage on the economy, the issue that was cited as the most important to voters.
Biden championed and pushed through legislation to modernize the country’s infrastructure and pull the economy out of a pandemic spiral, but in recent years he has presided over a period of high inflation, with voters feeling pinched by higher costs of living.
Harris’ advisers have pointed out that she has already introduced some policies that they hope will make her appealing to voters and to members of the business community, and strike a subtle contrast with Biden.
But they also say the contrast Harris cares about striking is the one between herself and Trump. She has embraced her past as a prosecutor as a strength in her ability to take on the former president. And she has focused much of her campaign message on preserving personal freedoms rather than on democracy, an idea Biden had championed.
Last week, Harris said she would increase the capital gains tax at a far lower rate than what the president had
proposed. (On Friday, dozens of business leaders, including billionaire Mark Cuban and former 21st Century Fox chair James Murdoch, signed a letter of support for her.)
She has also floated a $25,000 benefit to help firsttime buyers break into the housing market. That benefit was first proposed by Biden, but Harris has embraced it and made it a major feature of her plan to combat high housing costs and appeal to young voters who feel shut out of the market.
At every turn, Harris has been careful not to criticize the administration she works for or the president she serves. In person, she and the president have telegraphed that they have a close relationship.
Publicly, Trump and his advisers have long made an influx of migrants a central focus of their attacks against Democrats. Though border crossings along the southwestern tip of the United States are at their lowest level in years, they reached record highs earlier in Biden’s presidency.
Biden and Harris have both repeatedly said that Trump should bear some of the blame for the migrant crisis, since he helped torpedo bipartisan legislation that would have amounted to the strictest restrictions on immigration in years.
Early in the administration, the president gave Harris the task of assessing the root causes of migration from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — a portfolio item that her allies have long believed was a no-win assignment, and one that her opponents are now using to attack her.
Ron Klain, Biden’s former chief of staff, said Harris would need go on the offensive with some of the issues where she has stronger footing than Trump. He said she should hammer Trump on abortion rights — according
to the Times/Siena poll, Harris holds a 15-percentage-point advantage on that issue — and show viewers who don’t know much about her that she would be ready to lead if she wins in November.
“I think she needs to convey that she’s ready to be president on day one,” Klain said. “And she has to show voters that she cares about their problems.”
A challenge — and an opportunity — highlighted by the poll is that more than a quarter of voters feel they need to learn more about her, while only 9% said the same of Trump. Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for the Trump campaign, said that on Tuesday night the former president would tie Harris to what she said were “the Biden-HARRIS administration’s failed policies,” writing the vice president’s name in capital letters for emphasis.
“Kamala Harris is not the candidate for change nor is she the candidate of the future,” Leavitt said in a statement. “Kamala Harris is the Vice President right NOW, and whether she likes it or not, she is responsible for the economic, immigration, and foreign policy crises over the past four years.”
In a statement, Kevin Munoz, a Harris campaign spokesperson, said Trump “represents everything Americans disdain about our politics,” and characterized Harris as “the best person to represent all Americans, regardless of party or background, as president.”
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, campaigns with President Joe Biden in Pittsburgh on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. At Tuesday’s debate, with former President Donald Trump, Harris will try to promote herself as a change candidate without criticizing Biden, whom she has served for years. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times)
After Georgia shooting, a grief-stricken city seeks solace, and answers
By ALESSANDRO MARAZZI SASSOON, SEAN KEENAN, RICHARD FAUSSET, AMY HARMON and RICK ROJAS
At candlelight vigils and in Sunday church services, at fundraisers for funerals and in quiet moments at home, another city began wrestling with a grief that has been inflicted on numerous American communities before it, a profound sorrow swirled with anger and confusion caused by a deadly mass shooting.
And now, those emotions in Winder, Georgia, were streaked with budding concerns that there had been missed opportunities to intervene before a gunman killed two students and two teachers last week at Apalachee High School.
Some in the community — including family members of victims, and students and parents at the school — expressed increased skepticism Sunday about whether indications that the 14-year-old suspect was a threat had been adequately heeded by the teenager’s family, school officials and law enforcement officials.
The concern grew after reports emerged of the suspect’s mother calling the school roughly a half-hour before authorities responded to the shooting, apparently to warn them.
“We believe it was preventable — 100%,” Lisette Angulo, the older sister of Christian Angulo, a 14-year-old boy who was killed, said of her and her family’s perspective in a message sent to The New York Times. “They knew of the situation beforehand,” she said, “and didn’t take proper action to prevent this tragedy from happening.”
Angulo praised the officers and emergency workers who responded to the shooting Wednesday morning, namely the school resource officers to whom the suspect surrendered. They had acted “efficiently and appropriately,” she said.
But the looming questions about whether the suspect, a freshman at the school
Family and friends release balloons in memory of Apalachee High School shooting victim Mason Schermerhorn, during a vigil in the neighborhood where he lived in Winder, Ga., on Sept. 7, 2024. As residents in Winder, Ga., consoled one another, questions rose about whether more could have been done to prevent the attack. (Christian Monterrosa/The New York Times)
named Colt Gray, could have somehow been diverted before the attack have intensified after the boy’s aunt, Annie Brown, told reporters about the mother’s warning and that her nephew had begged in recent months for mental health help.
Local law enforcement officials had investigated but ultimately could not definitively link the suspect to threats of a school shooting posted online last year. The suspect’s father, Colin Gray, has been charged with murder and manslaughter for allowing his son access to the military-style rifle used in the attack, officials said.
A spokesperson for the Barrow County School System declined Sunday to comment on the mother’s call or the investigation more broadly and referred questions to the local district attorney prosecuting the case. That prosecutor, J. Bradley Smith, declined to comment Sunday.
On Sunday, speaking through the cracked front door of her parents’ house in Fitzgerald, Georgia, Marcee Gray did not discuss the phone call, which, her sister said, she made at 9:50 a.m. Wednesday, some 30 minutes before authorities received reports of a shooting at the school.
It remains unclear what led Marcee Gray to give that warning on that day. But relatives said the suspect had been deeply affected by turmoil in his life in recent years. His parents
was sung. “I see community.”
Still, many braced for what would most likely be an excruciating road ahead — mourning those who were killed, tending to the physical and psychological wounds sustained by students and teachers at the school and trying to restore a sense of safety that has been shredded.
“I’ve been trying to distract myself because my mind doesn’t really want to process what happened,” Sarah Licona, a 17-year-old senior, said Sunday, adding that the effort had been futile, as the trauma felt inescapable. “Every time I closed my eyes, I was back in that classroom scared for my life.”
Lyela Sayarath, who started at Apalachee last year after several years of being homeschooled because she “just wanted to have the high school experience,” had algebra during second period with the suspect. The period runs from 9:45 a.m. to 11:08.
had separated, the family had been evicted from their home, and his mother had repeated encounters with law enforcement and had been ordered to stay away from drugs and alcohol and not have direct contact with her estranged husband. The boy had also been relentlessly bullied in middle school, his father told investigators looking into the online threat last year.
“I don’t have anything to say other than I’m very, very sorry to the parents,” Marcee Gray said. “I haven’t stopped crying since this happened on Wednesday. And if I, as a parent, if I could swap places with those children so that they could live, I would do it in a heartbeat. But I can’t.”
About 200 miles north in Winder, a city of some 19,000 people that had grown from a rural outpost to an exurb of Atlanta, people were searching fitfully for how to move forward.
The flagpole at Apalachee High School had become a hub for mourning, with flowers and notes of support. A group of bikers collectively revved their engines as a tribute. Blue and yellow bandannas — the school’s colors — were tied onto a road sign near the school.
“The solace that I have, and the peace that I have, is what I’m seeing in front of me,” Jud Smith, Barrow County sheriff, said at a vigil Friday where elected officials and community leaders spoke and “Amazing Grace”
The school year had started a month earlier, and the suspect, a student who arrived after the semester had begun, missed class frequently, she said. That day, she had seen him shortly before class began, she recounted in an interview.
Then she put her head on her desk while she waited for class to begin. He was not there, Lyela, 16, said, when an administrator came to the room, looking for another student whose full name varied from the suspect’s by only a few letters. That student, who sat across from Sayarath, had gone to the bathroom, she said. The administrator took his backpack, and left. When the other student came back, Lyela said, she asked him what was going on, and he told her the administrator had not been looking for him.
An adult had asked him, “‘You’re not Colt?’” she recalled him telling her.
A short time later, Lyela recalled, a voice on the intercom requested that the teacher check her email, which she did. Then the voice came over the intercom again — Lyela does not recall the reason — and she looked up and saw the suspect approaching the door from the outside.
“Oh, he’s here,’’ Lyela recalled the teacher saying.
The classroom door locked automatically. A student who moved to open the door stepped back, seeing that the suspect was carrying a gun, according to Lyela’s account.
A few seconds later, she said she saw — through the glass window in the door — as Gray turned and began to shoot down the hall, or into the classroom next to the algebra room.
US argues Google created ad tech monopoly
By DAVID McCABE
The Justice Department told a federal judge Monday that Google had built a monopoly in lucrative technology that delivers online ads, kicking off a second federal antitrust trial against the tech giant amid mounting scrutiny of the industry.
Google used its acquisition in 2008 of advertising software company DoubleClick to build its dominance in technology that auctions off ads on webpages as users visit, Julia Tarver Wood, the government’s lead trial lawyer, said in opening statements. Google now has an 87% market share in that ad-selling technology, allowing it to charge higher prices and take a bigger portion of each sale, she said, harming news publishers and other website owners.
Google used its size and influence to lock out competitors and rigged the rules to pad its bottom line, Wood said in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
“Google is not here because they are big,” Wood said. “They are here because they used that size to crush competition.”
The trial stems from a case — U.S. et al v. Google — that the Justice Department filed against Google last year. In its suit, the agency accused the internet giant of abusing control of its ad technology and violating antitrust law. It is the second federal antitrust trial that the Silicon Valley company has faced in a year, with a federal judge ruling in August in the other case that Google had illegally maintained a monopoly over online search. That judge is now considering how to resolve those concerns, which could include ordering Google to sell off parts of its business.
The cases against Google are part of a growing push by regulators to rein in Big Tech’s power, which
shapes commerce, information and communication online. The Justice Department has also sued Apple, arguing it made it difficult for consumers to leave its tightly-knit universe of devices and software. The Federal Trade Commission has sued Amazon, over squeezing small businesses, and Meta, over killing rivals when it bought Instagram and WhatsApp.
Google has denied the ad-tech allegations, saying the government was trying to disrupt a system that has benefited small businesses that run ads and people who create content.
The trial that began Monday focuses on advertising technology that largely operates out-of-sight of consumers. Over time, Google built a suite of products to run auctions that sell slots for ads on webpages. After buying DoubleClick, Google wove the company’s technology
into its offerings.
While this system has become less central to Google’s revenues in recent years, the government contends that business segment earned more than $31 billion in 2021.
Google controls every link in a chain of software that sells ad space online, Wood told Judge Leonie Brinkema on Monday.
Google drove customers to use its products, even when websites could have made more money selling their ads through its rivals’ technology, she said. That hurt the websites, such as news publishers, that rely on ad sales for revenue, she said. She argued that without that revenue, websites might be forced to charge for content or shut down.
A Google sign in Mountain View, Calif., May 2, 2024. In a second antitrust trial that starts on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, the Justice Department has called for a breakup of the tech giant, which it says controls the vast majority of online advertising. (Jason Henry/The New York Times)
Google’s lead lawyer, Karen Dunn, countered that customers had plenty of options for placing ads online. But they chose Google’s products on the merits, she said. Google will show the judge, Dunn continued, that the company is “one big company among many others” that competes in the ad tech business.
Dunn also argued that the scope of the case is incorrect. It focuses on webpage ads in an era when online ads are sold across a wide range of platforms, including social media sites and mobile apps.
The government’s case flies in the face of longstanding legal precedents set by the Supreme Court, Dunn argued. (The lawyer, who has been preparing Vice President Kamala Harris for Tuesday’s presidential debate, left the courtroom after her opening statement. She declined to say where she was going.)
The trial is expected to play out for at least the next four weeks. The judge may hear testimony from Google employees, including YouTube’s CEO, Neal Mohan, and representatives of media companies, including The New York Times Co.
Stocks
Wall Street bounces as investors await inflation data, Fed rate cuts
Wall Street’s three main stock indexes rose on Monday after a week of losses as investors looked for bargains while they waited for inflation reports in coming days and the Federal Reserve’s next policy decision next week.
This week’s key events include the consumer price index (CPI) report, due Wednesday morning after Tuesday night’s first debate between U.S. presidential candidates Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump ahead of the Nov. 5 election.
Global markets were rattled last week as concerns over the U.S. economy’s health added fuel to uncertainty about the Fed’s rate policy ahead of its policy decision due Sept. 18.
Friday’s weaker-than-expected August jobs data spurred worries about the labor market, resulting in the Nasdaq Composite’s biggest weekly drop since January 2022, and the S&P 500 biggest weekly loss since March 2023.
“You had an over sold condition last week. There’s not anything significant today that would change the narrative. You’ve some high quality stocks that are cheaper,” said Phil Blancato, chief market strategist at Osaic Wealth, New York.
In particular Blancato pointed to a more than 2% boost in shares of market heavyweight and artificial intelligence chipmaker favorite Nvidia, which fell 15.3% last week.
But since trading is usually more muted before big economic news, the strategist was concerned to see a rally before Wednesday’s CPI inflation report, which is expected to help inform whether the Fed cuts rates by 25 or 50 basis points.
“The market’s expecting a very soft print and locking in a Fed cut. What happens if we don’t get that?” said Blancato who expects volatility after whatever decision the Fed makes.
Some investors will be disappointed if the Fed only cuts rates by 25 basis points but if the cut is double that, they will be worried that the Fed has big concerns about the economy.
“It’s a lose-lose situation,” the strategist said.
Wednesday’s report is expected to show a moderation in headline inflation in August to 2.6% on a yearly basis, while on a monthly basis it is expected to remain unchanged at 0.2%. The CPI report will be followed by producer prices data on Thursday.
At 02:23 p.m. the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 457.59 points, or 1.13%, to 40,803.00, the S&P 500 gained 50.49 points, or 0.93%, to 5,458.91 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 121.03 points, or 0.73%, to 16,811.86.
The eleven major S&P 500 industry sectors were trading
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higher, with financials leading gains, up 1.8% followed closely by industrials.
Creating a drag on the technology sector, up 0.6%, was Apple Inc whose shares fell more than 1% after it unveiled its artificial intelligence-boosted iPhone 16.
Apple’s long-awaited phone launch came hours after Chinese rival Huawei began racking up orders for its tri-fold Mate XT phone.
Boeing advanced 3.6% after the planemaker and its biggest union reached a tentative deal covering more than 32,000 workers, averting a possible strike.
Palantir rose 12.9% and Dell Technologies rose 3.6% while Erie climbed 1.3% on the news issued late Friday they will all join the S&P 500 index on Sept. 23.
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Catherine, Princess of Wales, has completed her chemotherapy for cancer
By MARK LANDLER
Catherine, the Princess of Wales, announced Monday that she had completed chemotherapy for her cancer, lifting a cloud from the British royal family after an anguished period in which she and her father-in-law, King Charles III, had both been stricken with serious illness.
Speaking in an emotional three-minute video, Catherine, who is known as Kate, said, “As the summer comes to an end, I can’t tell you what a relief it is to have finally completed my chemotherapy treatment.”
“Doing what I can to stay cancer free is now my focus,” she continued. “My path to healing and full recovery is long and I must continue to take each day as it comes.”
The videotaped announcement was highly personal, offering home movie-style glimpses of Kate with her husband, Prince William, and their three children. But it left many questions unanswered: whether her doctors have declared her medically free of cancer; whether she is still undergoing other forms of treatment; and her prognosis for a full recovery.
Kensington Palace did not indicate that Kate was cancer free. And officials did not offer further details on the princess’ medical condition, citing her right to privacy. It has never confirmed what type of cancer she was being treated for, how far the disease had progressed, or the details of her treatment, beyond chemotherapy.
Kate said she looked forward to returning to work, and will undertake a limited schedule of public events for the rest of the year. She is expected to attend a ceremony honoring those killed in war at the Cenotaph monument in November, one of the most somber dates on the royal calendar.
“The last nine months have been incredibly tough for us as a family,” Kate said. “Life as you know it can change in an instant, and we have had to find a way to navigate the stormy waters and road unknown.”
The announcement, filmed last month by Will Warr, a London-based videographer who specializes in wedding videos, put the emphasis on recovery and family rather than clinical details. Shot in gauzy light with a mix of soft-focus and newsreel-style images, the video showed Kate playing with her children, resting her head on William’s shoulder, and walking through a field of waving grain.
The Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke of Sussex surprise members of the public with a joint public appearance to view the tributes to Queen Elizabeth II outside Windsor Castle, in Windsor, England on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022. Catherine, Princess of Wales, announced Monday that she had completed chemotherapy for cancer, lifting a cloud from the British royal family after an anguished period in which she and her father-in-law, King Charles III, had both been stricken with serious illness. (Mary Turner/The New York Times)
Kate, 42, spoke in a voice-over about her ordeal, which began after Christmas, when she entered a hospital for abdominal surgery.
“The cancer journey is complex, scary and unpredictable for everyone, especially those closest to you,” Kate said. “With humility, it also brings you face to face with your own vulnerabilities in a way you have never considered before, and with that, a new perspective on everything.”
Over footage of her son Prince Louis scampering up a pile of logs, the family laughing as they played cards around a kitchen table with Kate’s parents, frolicking on the beach, and walking hand-in-hand through forest and fields, Kate characterized her illness as having pulled her focus back to the things that matter.
“This time above all reminded William and me to reflect and be grateful for the simple yet important things in life, which so many of us often take for granted,” Kate said. “Of simply loving and being loved.”
Charles, who announced in February that he, too, had been diagnosed with cancer, has returned to public duties, though Buckingham Palace has not yet said whether he continues to undergo treatment. His wife, Queen Camilla, offered the closest
thing to a health update last week when she said of her husband, during a visit to a cancer center in Bath, “He’s doing very well.”
Kate’s tentative return to public life began in June when she attended Trooping the Color, a military parade that honors the birthday of the king. She rode in a state carriage to watch the parade with her children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Louis.
Hopes for Kate’s condition rose when she made a second public appearance in July, on the final day of the Wimbledon tennis tournament. Wearing a royal purple dress, she won an enthusiastic standing ovation from spectators, including actor Tom Cruise, as she entered the gallery. Later, in her role as the royal patron of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet
Club, Kate presented the Challenge Cup to the men’s singles champion, Carlos Alcaraz of Spain.
Still, Kate has tried to manage public expectations about her recovery since she spent 14 days in a hospital and announced the cancer diagnosis in March.
“I am making good progress,” she said in a statement issued the day before she took part in the birthday parade, “but as anyone going through chemotherapy will know, there are good days and bad days.”
“On those bad days you feel weak, tired and you have to give in to your body resting,” Kate added. “But on the good days, when you feel stronger, you want to make the most of feeling well.”
Kensington Palace, where Kate and William have their offices, has pleaded with the news media to respect her privacy, following weeks of breathless rumors about her condition earlier in the year. There has been relatively little speculation since she announced her diagnosis in a stark prerecorded video.
As she has at other key phases of her recovery, Kate has sought to keep tight control over how she discloses information to the public. Warr, the filmmaker who shot the latest video, also produced a video for the couple on their 10th wedding anniversary. In addition to wedding videos, Warr works for commercial clients such as Puma, Red Bull and Tesco, according to his LinkedIn page.
Palace officials said the video was meant to underscore how the natural world has been a sanctuary for Kate during her recovery. In her therapeutic language, she sought to make her ordeal a source of hope for others.
“To those who are continuing their own cancer journey,” she concluded, “I remain with you, side by side, hand in hand. Out of the darkness can come light, so let that light shine bright.”
Family of American slain in the West Bank demands an independent inquiry
By LIAM STACK and EPHRAT LIVNI
The family of an American woman killed at a protest in the occupied West Bank demanded an independent investigation Saturday, saying that Israel could not investigate her death impartially because witnesses and Palestinian officials accused Israeli soldiers of killing her.
The woman, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was shot in the head Friday in Beita, a village in the West Bank, during a protest against an Israeli settler outpost. In a statement, her family said “given the circumstances of Aysenur’s killing, an Israeli investigation is not adequate.”
“We call on President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Secretary of State Blinken to order an independent investigation into the unlawful killing of a U.S. citizen and to ensure full accountability for the guilty parties,” said the statement, which was posted to Instagram by a friend, Juliette Majid.
Eygi’s death carried overtones of a prominent incident in 2003, when a 23-year-old activist named Rachel Corrie was crushed by an Israeli armored bulldozer during a protest in the Gaza Strip. Like Eygi, Corrie was a resident of Washington state, and both were associated with the International Solidarity Movement, a nonviolent group resisting the Israeli occupation.
Eygi’s family described her as “a fiercely passionate human rights activist” who “felt a deep responsibility to serve others and lived a life of caring for those in need with action.”
On Friday, friends of Eygi said she would have wanted the world to recognize that shootings like the one that killed her
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi (cair.com)
are not uncommon in the occupied Palestinian territories. According to the United Nations, Israeli forces and settlers have killed more than 600 people in the West Bank since the war in Gaza began last year.
“She was active on campus in student-led protests, advocating human dignity, and calling for an end to the violence against the people of Palestine,” the statement said. “Aysenur felt compelled to travel to the West Bank to stand in solidarity with Palestinian civilians who continue to endure ongoing repression and violence.”
Friends said Eygi’s activism began in her teenage years, when she protested the construction of an oil pipeline through the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota.
After the war in Gaza began, she helped organize protests on campus at the University of Washington, where earlier this year she earned a degree in psychology, with a minor in Middle Eastern languages and cultures.
“Aysenur was so energetic, and incredibly passionate about justice,” said Majid, the friend who posted the family statement. “Her loss is felt profoundly.”
She said Eygi was an experienced activist who was not naive about the danger of joining protests in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. “I think she knew the risks going in,” Majid said.
Eygi was born in Turkey but raised in the Seattle area. An uncle, Cemal Birden, said her family moved from Antalya, on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, to the United States when she was less than a year old.
Birden said he told Eygi that traveling to Jerusalem and the West Bank could be dangerous. “My niece was such a pure, such a good kid,” he said in a telephone interview.
Frequent protests have occurred in Beita, a village near Nablus, since 2021, when Israeli settlers seized land on a nearby hilltop that Palestinian villagers said had long belonged to them.
Several protesters have been killed, and scores more injured, since the creation of the hilltop outpost, now known as Evyatar. The Israeli government said recently that it would legalize the outpost.
Typhoon Yagi weakens after killing 49 in Vietnam
By YAN ZHUANG
At least 49 people were killed and more than 700 injured as Typhoon Yagi carved a path of destruction through northern Vietnam over the weekend, the country’s state media reported Monday.
The storm, one of the most powerful of 2024, made landfall Saturday in the coastal province of Quang Ninh with winds of up to 127 mph, equivalent to those of a Category 3 hurricane. It triggered deadly landslides, flooded towns and blew roofs off homes, local media reported, before weaken-
ing into a tropical depression by Sunday morning.
Last week, Yagi smashed into the Philippines, where it killed at least 20 people, before claiming four more lives in southern China and causing about 1 million people to flee their homes.
By Monday night, at least 49 people had been killed and 22 people were missing across northern Vietnam, the Department of Dike Management and Natural Disaster Prevention and Control said, according to state-run media. That included six people, including an infant and a 1-year-old, who died after a landslide swept through a residential area in the
mountainous province of Lao Cai, near Vietnam’s northern border with China, the state-run Vietnam News agency reported.
Another four people from one family died in a landslide in Hoa Binh province, about 20 miles southwest of Hanoi, the capital, state media said.
As the storm moved inland across Vietnam’s mountainous northwest, rainfall led to flooding in several provinces and forced thousands to evacuate, state media said. On Monday morning, part of a bridge connecting the districts of Lam Thao and Tam Nong was swept away by floodwaters, the Vietnam News agency said. Three people were injured in the collapse and eight people were missing, the government said.
In Hanoi, where at least one person was killed, the storm flooded streets, damaged roofs and caused widespread power outages, Vietnam News reported. It toppled thousands of trees, including some of the city’s oldest trees, which were considered landmarks, state media said.
At least 732 people were injured as a result of the storm, many of them in Quang Ninh, the government said. At least 46,500 homes were damaged, and hundreds of thousands of acres of crops, including rice and fruit trees, were damaged or flooded, it said.or flooded, it said.
Tucker Carlson welcomes a Hitler apologist to his show
By MICHELLE GOLDBERG
Last week, Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News star who now hosts one of America’s top podcasts, had an apologist for Adolf Hitler on his show. Darryl Cooper, who runs a history podcast (and newsletter) called “Martyr Made,” considers Winston Churchill, not Hitler, the chief villain of World War II. In a social media post that he’s since deleted, Cooper argued that a Paris occupied by the Nazis was “infinitely preferable in virtually every way” to the city on display during the opening ceremony of the recent Summer Olympics, where a drag queen performance infuriated the right. On his show, Carlson introduced Cooper to listeners as “the most important popular historian working in the United States today.”
Over the course of a wide-ranging two-hour conversation, Cooper presented the mainstream history of World War II as a mythology shrouded in taboos intended to prop up a corrupt liberal political order. The idea that Nazi Germany represented the epitome of evil, argued Cooper, is such a “core part of the state religion” that we have “emotional triggers” preventing us from examining the past dispassionately.
This clever rhetorical formulation, familiar to various strands of right-wing propaganda, flatters listeners for their willingness to reject all they’ve learned from mainstream experts, making them feel brave and savvy for imbibing absurdities. Cooper proceeded, in a soft-spoken, faux-reasonable way, to lay out an alternative history in which Hitler tried mightily to avoid war
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with Western Europe, Churchill was a “psychopath” propped up by Zionist interests, and millions of people in concentration camps “ended up dead” because the overwhelmed Nazis didn’t have the resources to care for them. Elon Musk promoted the conversation as “very interesting” on his social platform X, though he later deleted the tweet.
Some on the right found Carlson’s turn toward Holocaust skepticism surprising. “Didn’t expect Tucker Carlson to become an outlet for Nazi apologetics, but here we are,” Erick Erickson, the conservative radio host, wrote on X. But Carlson’s trajectory was entirely predictable. Nazi sympathy is the natural endpoint of a politics based on glib contrarianism, right-wing transgression and ethnic grievance.
There are few better trolls, after all, than Holocaust deniers, who love to pose as heterodox truth-seekers oppressed by Orwellian elites. (The wildly antisemitic Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust named its journal “An Inconvenient History: A Quarterly Journal for Free Historical Inquiry.”) Those who deny or downplay the Holocaust often excel at mimicking the forms and language of legitimate scholarship, using them to undermine rather than explore reality. They blitz their opponents with out-of-context historical detail and bad-faith questions, and they know how to use crude provocation to get attention.
Long before 4Chan existed, disgraced Holocaust-denying author David Irving urged his followers, in an early 1990s speech, to break through the “appalling pseudo-religious atmosphere” surrounding World War II by being aggressively tasteless. “You’ve got to say things like: ‘More women died on the back seat of Sen. Edward Kennedy’s car at Chappaquiddick than died in the gas chamber at Auschwitz,’” he said.
Until quite recently, American conservatives mostly maintained antibodies against Irving-style disinformation. Right-wing thought leaders generally shared the same broad historical understanding of World War II as the rest of society, felt patriotic pride at America’s role in it and viewed Hitler as metaphysically wicked. Rather than recognizing the way rightwing politics, taken to extremes, could shade into National Socialism, they would hurl Nazi comparisons at the left, as conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg did in his 2008 book “Liberal Fascism.”
Goldberg’s approach was dishonest, but it was representative of a broad anti-fascist consensus in American politics. Cooper is, in fact, correct that abhorrence of Nazism has helped structure Western societies. If we could agree on nothing else, we could agree that part of the job of liberal democracy was to erect bulwarks against the emergence of Hitler-like figures.
For parts of the contemporary right, however, the social consensuses undergirding liberalism are artificial and even tyrannical. After all, the “Matrix”-derived metaphor of being “red-pilled” implies a realization that all you’ve been told about the nature of reality is a lie, and thus everything is up for grabs. And once you discard all epistemological and moral guardrails, it’s
Tucker Carlson addresses the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 18, 2024. (Thalassa Raasch/The New York Times)
easy to descend into barbarous nonsense.
Candace Owens, another anti-woke right-wing celebrity who has lately become Hitler-curious, has also come to question received wisdom about the shape of the earth. “I’m not a flat-earther,” she said in July. “I’m not a round-earther. Actually, what I am is I am somebody who has left the cult of science.”
Obviously, not every red-pilled conservative ends up arguing, as Owens did, that Hitler gets a bad rap. But the weakening of the intellectual quarantine around Nazism — and the MAGA right’s fetish for ideas their enemies see as dangerous — makes it easier for influential conservatives to surrender to fascist impulses. When they do, they pay no penalty in political relevance, because there’s no conservative establishment capable of disciplining its ideologues.
Carlson has just embarked on a national tour with special guests at each stop. In addition to Alex Jones, he’s scheduled to appear with vice presidential nominee JD Vance and Donald Trump Jr.
Ultimately, Holocaust denial isn’t really about history at all, but about what’s permissible in the present and imaginable in the future. If Hitler is no longer widely understood as the negation of our deepest values, America will be softened up for Donald Trump’s most authoritarian plans, including imprisoning masses of immigrants who are in the country illegally in vast detention camps.
Toward the end of their conversation, Carlson and Cooper discussed how the “postwar European order” has enabled mass immigration, which has, in Carlson’s telling, destroyed Western Europe. “So why not have a Nuremberg trial for the people who did that?” asked Carlson. “I don’t understand. I mean, that’s such a crime.”
“Well,” Cooper responded, “we have to win first.”
Unidad de Control de Vectores refuerza su compromiso en Bayamón ante
POR CYBERNEWS
SAN JUAN – Ante el incremento de casos de dengue en Puerto Rico, la Unidad de Control de Vectores de Puerto Rico (la Unidad) ha intensificado sus esfuerzos en el Municipio de Bayamón con un programa de manejo integrado de vectores, dirigido a reducir la población del mosquito Aedes aegypti, principal transmisor del virus del dengue. Este programa, en colaboración con los Centros para el Control y Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC) y el Departamento de Salud de Puerto Rico, se ha implementado en más de 80 comunidades. La directora de los CDC, la doctora Mandy Cohen, visitó Bayamón recientemente para observar de primera mano los avances del programa. Esta iniciativa, que comenzó a finales de 2023, incluye actividades como el uso de trampas para mosquitos, aplicación de larvicidas y la instalación de un “Denguemetro”, una he-
rramienta informativa que permite a las comunidades conocer el riesgo de dengue en sus áreas.
Desde el 15 de febrero de 2024, la Unidad ha instalado 2,298 trampas en comunidades de Bayamón
Buscan a mujer arrastrada por las corrientes marinas en San Juan
POR CYBERNEWS
SAN JUAN – Las autoridades buscan a una mujer que fue arrastrada por las corrientes marinas, a eso de las 6:32 de la tarde del domingo, en la avenida Ashford detrás de Ocean Club en el mirador de Condado, en San Juan.
Según se Informó una llamada a través del Sistema de Emergencias 9-1-1, alertó la policía sobre la situa-
ción. Al llegar los agentes al lugar antes mencionado, localizaron a la querellante, que alegó que su pareja fue arrastrada por las corrientes marinas.
La perjudicada, aún no ha sido identificada pero fue descrita de tez negra, cabello largo con dreadlocks, estatura cinco pies y ocho pulgadas, 136 libras de peso aproximadamente.
Agentes adscritos a la Unidad Maritimita de Fuerzas Unidas de Rápida Acción (FURA) atienden la situación.
Aparece quemada una de las motoras
POR CYBERNEWS
TOA BAJA – Agentes adscritos al precinto de Dajaos, localizaron en la tarde del sábado una de las motoras acuáticas hurtadas en las instalaciones de la Unidad Marítima de Toa Baja. De acuerdo al teniente Ismael Agosto, de la Policía Municipal de Toa Baja, el equipo fue localizado en llamas en el sector Los Barrios de Dajaos.
El vehículo encontrado corresponde al que pertenece a la Policía Municipal, sin embargo, el otro vehículo, propiedad de la
aumento de casos de dengue
y ha realizado aplicaciones de larvicidas en áreas de alta densidad de casas abandonadas. Las actividades comunitarias incluyen la eliminación de criaderos en escuelas y complejos de vivienda, así como adiestramientos y mesas informativas para promover la prevención.
El doctor Grayson Brown, director ejecutivo de la Unidad, destacó el compromiso de los CDC y la efectividad del programa en la lucha contra el dengue en la isla. Además, la doctora Julieanne Miranda, directora asociada de la Unidad, resaltó la colaboración entre sectores públicos y privados para enfrentar el reto de controlar la población de mosquitos en Puerto Rico.
La Unidad continuará con la expansión de sus esfuerzos en Bayamón, con el aumento de trampas y actividades educativas, para garantizar que la comunidad se mantenga informada y participe activamente en la prevención del dengue.
acuáticas robadas en Toa Baja
oficina de Manejo de Emergencias Municipal de Toa Baja, todavía no ha sido recuperado.
Las motoras acuáticas robadas estaban en las instalaciones de la Unidad Marítima en el balneario de Punta Salinas.
Según el reporte de la Policía, rompieron la verja donde comparten labores el Manejo de Emergencias del municipio y la Policía Municipal de Toa Baja y se llevaron las dos motoras acuáticas.
Ambas son marca Kawasaki ultra 310 del 2023 que estaban en los carretones marca Triton.
Arrestan a sujeto por maltratar gatos en Lares
que supuestamente maltratara a dos gatos en Lares.
L
ARES – Un hombre de 38 años fue arrestado a eso de las 9:19 de la noche del domingo, luego de
Supuestamente, el sujeto tiró a un gato contra la pared y el segundo contra el suelo. A pesar del incidente los gatos están en buen estado de salud.
Para arrestarlo, se utilizó el dispositivo de control eléctrico.
Se espera por el fiscal para la radicación de cargos.
El agente Rubén Cotts, adscrito al precinto de Lares, investigó el incidente.
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‘La Bomba Eh!’ mural to be unveiled, donated to UPR Carolina
By THE STAR STAFF
The University of Puerto Rico (UPR) in Carolina is slated to unveil on Friday, Sept. 13 a mural titled “La Bomba Eh!” by artist and Graphic Design Department Director John Rivas.
The acrylic painting, captured on a PVC mural, measures 96 inches high and 240 inches wide and was initially created in digital painting format in 2021, Rivas said. “La Bomba Eh!” presents an abstract
scene of very colorful people looking at a fixed point on the horizon, a scene from a play that took place in the university theater. In the painting, to be unveiled in an activity slated for 5 p.m. in the theater, the bomba musical genre is projected as a link between cultures, transcending beyond color and reaffirming its presence from the past to the present.
The bomba is heavy on percussion and drums and dates back to Puerto Rico’s colonial times and African roots. The dan-
ce symbolizes resilience, passion and the hopes of a people.
Rivas said he wanted to capture the vibrant energy and rich diversity that the bomba represents.
“The abstract figures and bright colors symbolize the harmony and unity this musical genre fosters between different cultures,” the artist said. “The intense colors and dynamic shapes reflect the rhythm and passion of the bomba. At the same time, the figures’ gazes toward the horizon represent the continuity and transcendence of this cultural tradition.”
UPR Carolina Chancellor José Meza praised the mural’s emphasis on Puerto Rican roots and culture, which are part of the institution’s educational commitment.
“This work represents a great contribution to the works that are part of the legacy of permanent artistic manifestations in our campus,” he said in a statement sent to the STAR. “La Bomba is passion, happiness, and is part of our musical expression appearing today in this work. This work presents a scene that invites us to reflect through its colors and format about our history and cultural heritage.”
Renowned painter Antonio Martorell said he knew Rivas as a cartoonist and graphic artist. He said he felt that “La Bomba Eh!” is a procession that suggests more.
“The sobriety of forms and combined color with the human scene invites a reflection in these years of unfulfilled promises and progressive darkness,” he said in a statement.
Former UPR President José Saldaña, who is a painter and artist himself, said the painting “is part of us.”
“It is a work that seeks to reach students and [Rivas] has been working to come up with a very good mural,” he said, adding that he was very happy the
painting will be part of the UPR Carolina theater.
According to Afro Legado, in 2015, professor, epistemologist, cultural manager, artist and historian Pablo Luis Rivera offered the first credit-bearing bomba course at UPR Carolina.
At the end of the semester in which the course was offered, a bomba play dedicated to poet Elsa Costoso Mercado was performed. Rivas took a photograph of the event in order to make a painting of the occasion, paying homage to the achievements of all the people involved in the project.
In the piece, Rivas pays tribute to all colors, cultures, races and genders.
“It is my personal tribute to a tradition that tells our story and connects and inspires us all,” he said. “When looking at this work, I hope that you feel the same vibration and connection that the Bomba gives to those of us who live and celebrate it.”
Rivas said he is dedicating the work to several people, particularly Karinee Andreu, an interior design graduate and accounting student, who helped with the work. Andreu said she is proud to be part of the work because “I love the university and have enjoyable memories.”
She said she was glad to have contributed to work that “forever will remind us of our cultural roots.”
Artist John Rivas said he wanted to capture the vibrant energy and rich diversity that the bomba represents.
Boeing Starliner’s future is unclear, even after safe landing
By KENNETH CHANG
The Starliner has landed.
Boeing’s troubled spacecraft has finally come home, but the two NASA astronauts who traveled in it to the International Space Station in June remain in orbit.
Because of problems with Starliner’s propulsion system during its approach to the space station in June, NASA officials decided not to put astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore on Starliner for the return trip. They will spend an additional five months on the space station as part of the crew before coming back to Earth around February in a spacecraft built and managed by SpaceX.
For the most part, the undocking and atmospheric reentry of Starliner proceeded smoothly. So did the capsule’s landing under parachutes at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on Saturday (10:01 p.m. Friday local time). That supported the earlier assertions of Boeing officials that the company’s vehicle was safe for the astronauts.
“It would have been a safe, successful landing with the crew on board, had we have had Butch and Suni on board,” Steve Stich, manager of the commercial crew program at NASA, said during a news conference early Saturday morning after the landing.
But the difficulties during the mission and the extended stay in orbit for the two astronauts have embarrassed Boeing, and there could be uncertainty how much the company is willing to continue to invest in the Starliner program.
During the news conference, Stich referred to the next Starliner flight as Starliner-1 — the designation of the first operational mission after NASA certifies the vehicle as ready for taking crews of four to and from the space station.
He talked about changes that engineering teams that Boeing has formed to come up with changes needed before the next Starliner flight, in particular how to avoid overheating of the thrusters.
“That work has already started, and that’s really the path to Starliner-1,” Stich said. He also said that engineers need to delve into the data collected during the test flight before deciding on a plan and a timeline.
NASA initially announced that two high-level Boeing space officials would take part in the Saturday news conference, but then they did not. “They deferred to NASA to represent the mission,” said Joel Montalbano, deputy associate administrator of NASA’s space operations mission directorate.
Boeing did release a statement quoting Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager for Starliner.
“I want to recognize the work the Starliner teams did to ensure a successful and safe undocking, deorbit, reentry and landing,” he said. “We will review the data and determine the next steps for the program.”
Montalbano said Boeing played a key role for the International Space Station, the commercial crew program with Starliner and in manufacturing the core stage of the new Space Launch System. “Their work is critical our success, and we fully expect calling to continue all three of those programs,” he said.
Before the undocking, Williams, who several years ago had given this vehicle the name Calypso, thanked the mission control team.
“It is time to bring Calypso home,” she said. “We have your backs and you’ve got this. Bring her back to Earth. Good luck.”
In turn, Chloe Mehring, the flight director, thanked the astronauts, who have spent years preparing for this flight. “We remember every setback and every revelation with you,” Mehring said. “The teams on the ground have worked countless hours over the last few weeks, months, and, for a group of us, years to bring Calypso back, and we’re ready to that today.”
Starliner began its trip back to Earth by retracting hooks that had held it tight to the space station. Springs on the spacecraft then pushed it away from the docking port. At that moment, it was about 260 miles above central China.
A series of thruster firings gently nudged Starliner up and over the space station. At a higher altitude, it was moving
more slowly than the space station and the distance between them grew quickly.
That was an uneventful beginning to the end of the mission, which launched in June, on a test flight that was the first time Starliner carried people to orbit. The flight was intended as a final shakedown before NASA certified the spacecraft for once-a-year missions taking astronauts to and from the space station.
The vehicle’s propulsion system experienced problems during its approach to the space station, including several balky thrusters and leaks of helium, a gas used to push propellant in the weightlessness of orbit. Although Starliner was able to dock successfully, the cause of the problems is still not fully understood, and NASA officials decided it would be safer for Starliner to return without anyone aboard.
As it moved into position to reenter the atmosphere, Starliner conducted test firings of 12 thrusters on the crew capsule section of the spacecraft. One did not work, but that does not pose a problem, because there are two redundant systems of six thrusters each.
“This one, for some reason, just never fired,” Stich said. It was, however, crucial that the redundant thruster did work for Starliner’s successful survival through the searing passage through the atmosphere.
The flight controllers also fired 10 of the thrusters on the service module — the cylindrical section below the crew capsule — and those all worked as expected.
At 11:17 p.m., the large thrusters on Starliner fired for almost a minute to drop Starliner out of orbit. It then discarded its service module — the cylindrical component below the crew capsule that contained the troublesome thrusters.
The crew capsule reentered Earth’s atmosphere over the central Pacific, traveling to the northeast, crossing northwest Mexico en route to touching down in the Chihuahuan Desert.
People in New Mexico, Arizona and northern Mexico shared videos on the social network X showing the heated spacecraft streaking through the night skies. Soon after, Starliner descended under three parachutes, with its final impact on the desert floor cushioned by air bags at the bottom of the capsule.
The two Starliner astronauts left behind by the spacecraft will become full-fledged members of the space station crew. NASA calls each rotation of crew members an “expedition,” and Williams and Wilmore will now be part of Expedition 72.
Later this month, two other astronauts, Nick Hague of NASA and Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia, are scheduled to launch to the space station in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. They too will serve as part of Expedition 72.
For Williams and Wilmore to have seats on the return trip to Earth next year, two other NASA astronauts who had been scheduled to serve on Expedition 72 — Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson — were bumped from the mission, known as Crew-9.
In an image provided by NASA, a Boeing Starliner capsule pulls away from the International Space Station on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. Boeing’s troubled spacecraft has finally come home, but the two NASA astronauts who traveled in it to the International Space Station in June remain in orbit. (NASA via The New York Times)
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The San Juan Daily Star Tuesday, September 10, 2024 15
What a puppy kindergarten revealed about raising exceptional dogs
By EMILY ANTHES
Most students at the Biological Sciences Building at Duke University are trying to master the finer points of cellular biology, genetics or evolution.
In one classroom, however, students learn altogether different lessons, such as how to sit politely and walk calmly on a leash. These furry pupils are enrolled in Duke Puppy Kindergarten, a research project examining how dogs become who they are.
Each semester, a new class of puppies arrives from Canine Companions, a nonprofit organization that trains service dogs. Over the course of 12 weeks, the dogs play games designed to assess their temperaments and cognitive abilities. The goal is to learn how to raise and identify dogs that can perform tasks like assisting children with disabilities or veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.
The project is led in part by Brian Hare, an evolutionary anthropologist and cognitive scientist who directs the Duke Canine Cognition Center.
Hare and his wife, Vanessa Woods, a research scientist at the center, describe the study in their new book, “Puppy Kindergarten.” They spoke to The New York Times in a video call while a 10-monthold Labrador retriever named Neutron lounged at their feet. This conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.
Q: You’ve been studying dogs for a long time. What prompted you to focus on puppies in particular?
BRIAN HARE: There’s this big problem in the world of working dogs, because the current approach is that you raise lots and lots of dogs, and you don’t really find out if they’re going to be able to do these jobs until they’re 2 years old. What if we could predict, before dogs start their training, which dog is most likely to make it?
Q: And you raised these dogs in two different ways?
VANESSA WOODS: We had 101 puppies. Half of them were raised normally: They went home with a family and came in every two weeks for testing. The second group was raised in this “supersocialization” condition. We know that if you deprive puppies of socialization, it
has all sorts of negative impacts. What if you supersocialize them? That’s when we started the puppy kindergarten.
Each puppy in puppy kindergarten has three to four “parents” — students that they go home with. They rotate through the dorm. Then they get dropped off in the morning, just like kindergarten, and we have a rotation of about 100 volunteers. They went out into the Duke community with the puppies. They went to the library. They visited the pediatric nurses at the hospital. They went to the dining hall. And then we compared the two groups.
HARE: For our cognitive measures, it had absolutely no impact, the two different ways we raised them. I wouldn’t have predicted that.
Q: How do you explain that?
HARE: There’s a threshold. Our finding is not “It doesn’t matter how you raise your dog.” But when you get above a threshold of responsible socialization — which is “I’m going to take my dog out on walks, and they’ll meet new people and new dogs” — exaggerating that doesn’t really have any measurable added benefits.
WOODS: It’s good news. You’re enough to raise your puppy. You don’t need 100 undergraduates.
Q: Running a puppy kindergarten sounds like kind of a dream job. Was it?
WOODS: All the puppies come, and it’s so great. Toward the end of the semester, you’re like, “Oh, my gosh, I’m so tired.” Nobody raises puppies this way for a reason. Their self-control doesn’t hit until they’re about 10 to 12 weeks old. Then they start teething, and then they’re going to have this uptick in puppy energy. And it’s crazy.
HARE: You’d raise them; they’re finally sleeping; they can go to the bathroom outside. And then they graduate, and we do it all over again. It was a dream job, but it’s an exhausting dream.
WOODS: The whole point of the project was to see the impact that we would have on the dogs. What we didn’t expect is what it was going to do for the campus community. People loved these puppies. We have survey data from before and after. Puppies are just the key to happiness.
HARE: Ten percent of the student
body volunteered. It ended up bringing together people from all over campus, people who never would have met but had this shared interest in dogs.
Q: You found that different cognitive abilities develop at different times. Can you give me some examples?
HARE: What comes online when puppies are 8 to 9 weeks old are things like following human gestures, basic memory and perceptual abilities. Around 10 to 12 weeks, puppies start having their first success with a simple self-control task. They also start making a lot of eye contact with people.
Then, at 13 or 14 weeks, two things happen that are more complicated. They pass a really hard self-control task. And they start to pass a causal reasoning task, where they have to understand that solid objects don’t pass through each other.
Then there’s the question of when do they reach what would be an adultlevel performance. Their ability to follow gestures, for instance, reaches adult performance within a week. It’s amazing. Self-control takes many, many weeks.
Q: It’s not just that different skills emerge at different times, but also that individual dogs have different strengths and weaknesses.
HARE: Absolutely. There were dogs who were remarkably good —
WOODS: Genius puppies.
HARE: — who were just really good at everything. And there were some puppies who weren’t that good at anything. Maybe this guy right here (gesturing toward Neutron).
WOODS: Olfaction!
HARE. It was the only one. Neutron got a perfect score on olfaction. But for most of the dogs, the scores were all over the place. Part of our job now is to follow these dogs as they grow up and see which of those cognitive profiles is most predictive of success.
Q: What are the takeaways for pet owners?
WOODS: One of the things that I learned was just that playing games with puppies is super interesting. Even with our old dog, Tassie — we ran him through the experiments because we needed a pilot subject. Tassie had a terrible memory.
HARE: But he was very empathic. And I think that’s one of the really important things: Love your dog for who they are. They’re all going to be different. But who they are is a wonderful thing.
Brian Hare, an evolutionary anthropologist and cognitive scientist who directs the Duke Canine Cognition Center, and Vanessa Woods, a research scientist at the center, with an assortment of puppy pupils in Durham, N.C., on Aug. 30, 2024. Hare and Woods are studying how the canine mind develops and what makes a successful service dog. (Cornell Watson/The New York Times)
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS PETROTEL, INC.
Parte Demandante Vs. GABRIEL
PÉREZ ACEVEDO
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: CG2022CV00499. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 10 de junio de 2022, la Orden de Ejecución de Embargo del 13 de marzo de 2023 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 15 de marzo de 2023 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 19 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024
A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Sala Superior, en la Carretera PR 1, Intersección PR 189, Kilómetro 0.4, Barrio Bairoa (Entrada norte Pueblo Caguas), al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América cheque de gerente o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Mulas de Aguas Buenas identificado como lote “A” con una cabida superficial de siete cuerdas con punto dieciséis ochenta de otra (7.1680) equivalentes a veintiocho mil ciento setenta y tres metros cuadrados con punto dieciséis ochenta y tres de otro (28,173.1683 m/c). En lindes por el NORTE con la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el SUR con Luz Florida Pérez López; por el ESTE con la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el OESTE con la finca principal de la cual se segrega y servidumbre de paso a constituirse. Es segregación de la finca 8237 de Aguas Buenas. La propiedad y la hipoteca constan inscritas al tomo Karibe de Aguas Buenas, Inscripción 3era, Finca 14270. Embargo inscrito en la Anotación “A” al Tomo Karibe de Aguas Buenas. Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. Servirá como tipo mínimo para la primera subasta la totalidad de las sumas adeudadas en la Sentencia, las cuales son: $50,000.00 de principal, más intereses por la
cantidad de $2,625.00 los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón del 3.5% anual, más intereses por mora pactados en el pagaré y la cantidad estipulada de $5,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de sentencia, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de agosto de 2024. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS. ***
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE ESTHER MARIE ORTÍZ MOLINA, COMPUESTA POR SUS MIEMBROS: NARCISO ORTÍZ, FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL
Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2022CV00887. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO
Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA
POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. A: LOS CODEMANDADOS
DE EPIGRAFE Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:
El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 11 de julio de 2024, notificada el 12 de julio de 2024 y publicada el 17 de julio de 2024; y de un Mandamiento de Ejecución emitido el día 22 de agosto de 2024, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, procederá a vender en subasta, y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, y/o giro postal, dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, o letra bancaria, con similar garantía de todo título, derecho o interés de los demandados de epígrafe sobre el inmueble que adelante se describe. Se anuncia por la presente que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 7 DE OCTUBRE DE 2024 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar identificado con el #324 del bloque “T”, en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Extensión Praderas de Ceiba Norte – Fase IV, localizada en la Carretera #935, del barrio Ceiba Norte de Juncos, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 273.770 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en distancia de 23.50 metros con el solar #T-325; por el SUR, en distancia de 23.50 metros con el solar #T-323; por el ESTE, en distancia de 11.65 metros con la calle C, ahora Calle El Mangó y por el OESTE, en distancia de 11.65 metros con el solar T-301. ENCLAVA: Una residencia unifamiliar, construida de hormigón armado, la cual se compone de tres dormitorios, dos baños, sala, comedor, cocina, “laundry” y marquesina techada. Dicho solar está afecto a servidumbre que consiste de una franja de terreno de 5.00 pies de ancho a lo largo de la colindancia Este de dicho solar, a ser constituida a favor de la Junta Reglamentadora de Telecomunicaciones de Puerto Rico, para distribución de telecomunicaciones y televisión por cable.” FINCA: Número 19581 de Juncos, inscrita al tomo Karibe de la Sección II de Caguas. Dirección física: 324 T El Man-
go St. (antes C St.) Ext. Praderas de Ceiba Norte IV, Juncos PR 00777. El siguiente pagaré consta inscrito en la propiedad antes mencionada y es el que se pretende ejecutar: HIPOTECA: Por 112,700.00, con intereses al 4.00% anual, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de la Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Saulo D. Rodríguez, que vence el 1ro de junio de 2045. Según escritura #159, otorgada en Gurabo, el 27 de mayo de 2015, ante Pedro Juan Caride Cruz, inscrita al tomo Karibe de la Sección II de Caguas, finca #19581 de Juncos, inscripción 2da. y última. La referida hipoteca grava el bien inmueble antes descrito. Que según surge del estudio de título, la propiedad se encuentra afecta a lo siguiente: Se establece esta finca como su “Hogar Seguro. La subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante, total o parcialmente según sea el caso, de la referida sentencia que fue dictada por las siguientes sumas: $108,473.81, por concepto de principal, más intereses al 4% anual a partir del 1 de agosto de 2017, hasta su completo pago, más 4% de todo pago en atraso, más $11,270.00, como cantidad estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, según pactados. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de Caguas, durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá Libre de Cargas y Gravámenes posteriores. Los tipos mínimos a utilizarse para la subasta son los siguientes: El inmueble antes descrito ha sido tasado en la suma de CIENTO DOCE MIL SETECIENTOS
DÓLARES ($112,700.00) para que dicha suma sirva de tipo mínimo en la primera subasta a celebrarse. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una SE-
GUNDA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 15 DE OCTUBRE DE 2024 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha segunda subasta, una suma equivalente a las dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de SETENTA Y CINCO MIL CIENTO TREINTA Y TRES DÓLARES CON TREINTA Y TRES CENTAVOS ($75,133.33) para la finca antes descrita. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 22 DE OCTUBRE DE 2024 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha tercera subasta, una suma equivalente a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de CINCUENTA Y SEIS MIL TRESCIENTOS CINCUENTA DÓLARES ($56,350.00) para la finca antes descrita. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 3 de septiembre de 2024, en Caguas, Puerto Rico. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL
PLACA #593, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAGUAS.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE UTUADO ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE LUIS NIEVES ARCE T/C/C LUIS M. NIEVES ARCE T/C/C LUIS MANUEL NIEVES ARCE COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS COMO DIANA NIEVES ARCE, REY NIEVES ARCE, JUAN CARLOS NIEVES Y WANDALIZ NIEVES; SUCESION DE AMERICO NIEVES
ARCE; SUCESION DE HERMAN NIEVES ARCE COMPUESTA POR SU HEREDERA CONOCIDA BEATRIZ NIEVES ARCE; SUCESION DE JUAN C. NIEVES ARCE COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS COMO JUAN LUIS NIEVES
GONZALEZ Y HECTOR LUIS NIEVES GONZALEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES DE DICHAS SUCESIONES; MIGUEL ANGEL CINTRON VELEZ, SU ESPOSA FELICITA GONZALEZ RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: UT2023CV00007. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de Utuado, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 14 de mayo de 2024, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 10 de julio de 2024 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: radicada en el Barrio Piletas del término municipal de Lares, Puerto Rico, compuesta de ochocientos punto cinco mil trescientos veinticinco metros cuadrados (800.5325 mc), colinda por el NORTE, con uso público a ser segregado; por el SUR, con remanente de la finca principal; por el ESTE, con remanente de la finca principal; por el OESTE, con Manuel Rivera. Contiene una casa en cemento y bloques. Finca Número 15,288, inscrita al folio 37 del tomo 293 de Lares. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Utuado. Dirección Física: BO. PILETAS SR 453 KM 5.5, LARES PR 00669. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 17 DE OCTUBRE DE 2024, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Utuado. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura
de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $69,500.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 24 DE OCTUBRE DE 2024, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $46,333.33. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 31 DE OCTUBRE DE 2024, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $34,750.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $41,619.40 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 7.0000% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. 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 demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Si se anula la venta, el compra-
dor tendrá derecho a la devolución del depósito de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Por la presente, también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 2 de agosto de 2024. Firma Ilegible, ALGUACIL #739, SALA SUPERIOR DE UTUADO.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR GUAYAMA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ EDUARDO ORTIZ MANDES COMPUESTA POR SU HEREDERO
forma a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 5 de septiembre de 2024. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN
JULIA MATOS MARRERO
T/C/C CARMEN J. MATOS MARRERO COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS
CONOCIDOS COMO DENNIS DE TAL MATOS, LUIS BENJAMÍN DE TAL MATOS, CARMEN DENISE DE TAL MATOS; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN
Demandados
Civil Núm.: GB2023CV00993. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE-
CA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO
PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 17 de mayo de 2024, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 20 de agosto de 2024 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número veintiuno del Bloque KK en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Reparto Apolo, situada en el Barrio Frailes de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de cuatrocientos treinta y dos metros treintiun centímetros cuadrados, colindando: por el NORTE, en veintiséis metros sesentiseis centímetros con el solar número veintidós; por el SUR, en veintiséis metros setenta y cinco centímetros con el solar veinte; por el ESTE, en once metros ochenta y cinco centímetros con la Calle número veintiuno; y por el OESTE, en dieciocho metros quince centímetros con el paseo público de dicha urbanización. En este solar se ha construido una casa de concreto de una sola planta, diseñada para fines residenciales. Finca Número 13,801, inscrita al folio 180 del tomo 212 de Guaynabo. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guaynabo. Dirección Física: URB. APOLO II KK-21 CALLE OLIMPO, GUAYNABO PR 00965. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 1RO DE OCTUBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:40 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Guaynabo. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $202,257.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 8 DE OCTUBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:40 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la
escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $134,838.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 15 DE OCTUBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:40 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $101,128.50. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $143,733.01 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 4.0000% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. 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 demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Si se anula la venta, el comprador tendrá derecho a la devolución del depósito de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Por la presente, también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte
la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 28 de agosto de 2024. ALG. HUGO BASCÓ MEDINA, ALGUACIL PLACA #807, SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMONSUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PR Vs VEGA MONT, MANUEL ANGEL Caso: DCD2017-0901. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. FULANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE MANUEL ANGEL VEGA MONT; MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE MANUEL ANGEL VEGA MONT Y LESLIE VEGA. EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de agosto 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 en-
terarse 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 06 de septiembre de 2024. LIC. SOMOZA COLOMBANI, GUILLERMO A. BILLYSOMOZA@YAHOO.COM. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 06 de septiembre de 2024. LAURA SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. CARMEN PINTADO NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
CONSEJO DE TITULARES DEL CONDOMINIO THE RITZ
Demandante V. HAYDEE MILAGROS LÓPEZ RIVERA
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV12037. (Salón: 1003 EXPROPIACIONES). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
JOSÉ R. REYES HERNÁNDEZASESORESENCONDOMINIOS@ GMAIL.COM.
A: HAYDEE M. LÓPEZ RIVERA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de agosto 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 28 de agosto de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 28 de agosto de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. LIZ M. RIVERA DÍAZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC.
Demandantes V. JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, COMO TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DE UN PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO
Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2024CV00852. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE:
Se les emplaza y notifica que se ha presentado una demanda en este caso en la cual en síntesis la PARTE DEMANDANTE alega que el 28 de marzo de 2019, se suscribió un pagaré hipotecario a favor de la parte demandante, SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC., por la suma principal de $88,200.00, con intereses al 4.875% por ciento anual y vencedero el 1° de abril de 2049, bajo el testimonio número 18,297 ante el Notario Christian M. Castillo Moreno, y según se hizo constar en la escritura de Primera Hipoteca número 28, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 28 de marzo de 2019, ante el Notario Christian M. Castillo Moreno. Esta hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Luquilo, finca número 6,679, inscripción 8ª del Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. La obligación garantizada por dicha hipoteca fue pagada en su totalidad y está vencida, quedando solamente por cancelar el pagaré que la garantizaba. La PARTE DEMANDANTE manifestó que nunca recibió el pagaré original para su cancelación y desconoce su paradero, por lo que concluyo que el pagaré estaba extraviado. Pueden examinar la demanda en su totalidad en los autos de este Tribunal. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Lcdo. Joseorlando Mercado Gely; RUA 12257
P.O. Box 270386
San Juan, PR 00927 Tel. 765-3027 Fax: 765-3043
jmercado@comasrevuelta.com
Deberán notificar su contestación dentro de los próximos treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo 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. Se les apercibe que, de no hacerlo, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda. La PARTE DEMANDADA deberá radicar el original de la contestación de la demanda en este Tribunal, con copia a la PARTE DEMANDANTE. DADO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal y por orden del mismo, hoy 28 de agosto de 2024. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA CARIBE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE GILBERTO BETANCOURT RIVERA Y OTROS
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TJ2024CV00137. Salón Núm.: 404. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: MIRIAM
BETANCOURT ORTIZ, NELSON BETANCOURT ORTIZ Y GILBERTO BETANCOURT ORTIZ, COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GILBERTO BETANCOURT RIVERA - DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA. Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda en su contra sobre Cobro de Dinero. 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. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su
alegación 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 responsiva en la Secretaría del Centro Judicial de Caguas, y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Lcda. Andrea Carolina Chaves Figueroa; PO Box 193813, San Juan, PR 00919; achaves@esqlegalpr.com. Se le apercibe y notifica que si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la demanda, sin más citársele ni oírsele. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal a 27 de agosto de 2024. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MYRIAM I. FIGUEROA PASTRANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR HERMES RAMÓN GARCIA LOZADA, T/C/C HERMES GARCÍA LOZADA Y EDNA IRIS MARRERO TORRES Demandante Vs. RG MORTGAGE CORPORATION; ZUTANO DE TAL Y FULANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO Demandados Caso Civil Núm.: CA2024CV02359. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO E HIPOTECA. EDICTO. Mediante la presente se le notifica a RG Mortgage Corporation, Zutano de Tal y Fulano De Tal, posibles Tenedores desconocidos de un Pagaré Extraviado, que la Parte Demandante ha presentado en su contra una Demanda sobre CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO e HIPOTECA en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Carolina, cuyo número de caso es CA2024CV02359. Se reclama, que se suscribió un Pagaré a favor de RG Mortgage Corporation o a su orden, por la suma principal $152,900.00, intereses al 6 7/8% anual y vencedero el día 1 de septiembre de 2008. Así consta de la Escritura número 854, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 4 de septiembre de 1993, ante el Notario Público Heberto J. Vizcarrondo Armstrong e inscrita al folio 22 del tomo 463 de Trujillo
Alto, inscripción 3ª, sobre el siguiente inmueble: “URBANA: Parcela de terreno identificada como solar 9 del Bloque “BA” de la Urbanización Bosque del Lago, radicada en el Barrio Dos Bocas del término municipal de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 504.82 metros cuadrados y en lindes: por el NORTE, en 18.46 metros con el solar número 8; por el SUR, en 11.94 metros y 21.97 metros con Court Número 2 y el solar número 10; y por el OESTE, en 28.50 metros con Green Area. En dicho solar enclava una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. Consta inscrito al folio 21 del tomo 463 de Trujillo Alto, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta, Finca Número 24,859. CATASTRO NÚMERO: 116-061-186-12-001. Que el descrito Pagaré se extravió sin haberse cedido, o traspasado o dado en garantía a ninguna persona y que no existe deuda alguna. Se le apercibe que este caso fue presentado a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC) y de igual forma usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través de 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. De no contestar la demanda, dentro de los veinte (20) días de haber sido diligenciado este Emplazamiento, si los demandados residieren dentro de la Isla de Puerto Rico, y dentro de los treinta (30) días si residieren fuera de la Isla de Puerto Rico, contados desde la publicación del edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y el Tribunal dictará la sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. La publicación de este edicto se hará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. Expedido bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de agosto de 2024. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL. IDA L. FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO
COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DR. MANUEL ZENO GANDIA
Demandante V. ANTONIO PEREZ
GANDIA Y SLG Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: AR2023CV02109. (Salón: 401 - CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ANA M. CAMPOS GAVITOANAMCAMPOS1@YAHOO.COM.
AMPARO MOLINA VALENTIN Y SLG - PO BOX 9522 COTTO STATION ARECIBO, PUERTO RICO 00613-9522. ANTONIO PEREZ GANDIA Y SLG PO BOX 9522 COTTO STATION ARECIBO, PUERTO RICO 006139522. CENTRO DE MEDIACION DE CONFLICTO - CMC-ARECIBO@ PODERJUDICIAL.PR. A: ANTONIO PEREZ
GANDIA Y SLG, AMPARO MOLINA VALENTIN Y SLG.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de julio 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 29 de agosto de 2024. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 29 de agosto de 2024. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE
GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. VANESSA GONZÁLEZ MALAVÉ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS
JORGE M. AZIZE CUADRADO, EN CALIDAD DE ADMINISTRADOR
JUDICIAL DE LA SUCN. DE ORLANDO C. FIGUEROA COMPUESTA POR MARÍA FERNANDA
CRUZ GÓMEZ, EDWIN
ORLANDO FIGUEROA
DELGADO, DILCIA
MARITZA FIGUEROA
DELGADO Y MARÍA
FERNANDA FIGUEROA CRUZ
Demandante Vs. YELTSIN PÉREZ RODRíGUEZ, POR SÍ Y EN CALIDAD DE PRESIDENTE DE Q-LITE ENTERPRISES, INC.
Demandados Civil Nú.: CG2024CV02696. (705). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y RESOLUCIÓN DE CONTRATO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE UU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: YELTSIN PÉREZ RODRÍGUEZ, POR SÍ Y EN CALIDAD DE PRESIDENTE DE Q-LITE ENTERPRISES, INC.
Por la presente, se le notifica a usted que ha sido radicada en esta Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Puerto Rico, la demanda de epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a la parte demandante, por conducto de su abogado, Lcdo. Luis G. Estades, Jr., RUA 4566, PO Box 368048, San Juan, PR 00936-8048, teléfono (787) 724-2300, fax (787) 725-1691, email: luisestades@hotmail.com. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza, se le notifica que una demanda ha sido presentada en su contra y se le requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, radicando 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:// poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal y notificando con copia de la misma a la parte demandante a la dirección antes indicada. Se le apercibe que, 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. El original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notificando con copia de esta a la parte demandante a la dirección antes indicada. Sin más citarle ni oírle. DADA en Caguas, Puerto Rico hoy 30 de agosto de 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Parte Demandante Vs. LUIS A ORTIZ COLLAZO Parte Demandada \Civil Núm.: TA2024CV00132. Sala: 500-A. 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.
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POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:///www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin. sanchez@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 10 de julio de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. IVETTE M. MARRERO BRACERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Demandantes V.
SUCESIÓN CYNTHIA FUSTER OTERO
Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2024CV02584. Sala: 703. Sobre: LIQUIDACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD DE BIENES. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: SUCESION CYNTHIA FUSTER OTERO. POR MEDIO DEL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica de la radicación de una DEMANDA DE LIQUIDACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD DE BIENES en la cual el demandante solicita se proceda a liquidar cualquier participación en la comunidad de bienes que surgió con la Sra. Cynthia Fuster Otero luego de su divorcio. La parte demandante solicita del Tribunal que declare HA LUGAR la Demanda y dicte Sentencia a su favor. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la Demanda radicando el original de su contestación, a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejos 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 Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas y enviando copia de dicha contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante, la Lcda. Michele M. Silva Marrero, 20 Ave. Luis Muñoz Marín PMB 263, Caguas, P.R. 00725, Tel. (787) 668-6517, msilvamarrero@gmail.com dentro del término de treinta (30) días siguientes a la fecha de publicación de este Edicto; si dejare de así hacerlo, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia contra usted concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 30 de agosto de 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. LIZ WHARTON ROSA, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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Demandante V. VICTOR MANUEL LIZARDI CASILLAS COMO POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO EN LA SUCESION DE VICTOR MANUEL LIZARDI PEREZ
Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2023CV01127. (Salón: 801). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ANDRÉS SÁEZ MARREROPRSERVICE@TMPPLLC.COM. A: LA SUCESIÓN DE VÍCTOR MANUEL
LIZARDI PÉREZ, TAMBIEN CONOCIDO COMO VÍCTOR M. LIZARDI PÉREZ, VÍCTOR LIZARDI PÉREZ, VÍCTOR MANUEL LIZARDI, VÍCTOR M. LIZARDI Y VÍCTOR LIZARDI, COMPUESTA FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERES EN LA SUCESIÓN.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de agosto 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 03 de septiembre de 2024. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 03 de septiembre de 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA TRINIDAD CAÑUELAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V.
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV02512.
(Salón: 908). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JUAN JOSÉ BERRÍOS COLÓNJBERRIOSCOL@GMAIL.COM. A: FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL Y CUALQUIERA PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA. (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 septiembre 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 04 de septiembre de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 04 de septiembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ANGELA RIVERA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (C.R.I.M.) – PARTE CON INTERÉS Demandados Civil Núm.: GM2024CV00385. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ANGEL MANUEL DÍAZ GONZÁLEZ COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ANGEL MANUEL DÍAZ DUPREY - 23B COLUMBIA AVE., NEWTON UPPER FALLS, MA 02464. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, notificando copia de la misma al abogado de la parte demandante. 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. Se le advierte, además, a los herederos que, conforme al caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 2005 TSPR 50, Op. De 22 de abril de 2005; tienen la opción de aceptar o repudiar la herencia del causante, dentro del término de 30 días a partir de su emplazamiento. De no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar dicha herencia dentro del término que se le fijó para contestar a la demanda incoada en su contra, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada, así como el presente emplazamiento. ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE
DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA NÚM.: 16,393
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The sudden death of the Gaudreau brothers
By DAVID WALDSTEIN
On the narrow shoulder of County Route 551, a two-lane road in the heart of rural Salem County, New Jersey, a memorial appears suddenly among the fields of corn and soybeans. Bunched together are bouquets of flowers, miniature flags and dozens of hockey sticks: an incongruous signpost to a tragic accident that shattered two extended families and left a community bereft.
“It just couldn’t be any worse,” said Lee Ware, a local farmer who was once commissioner for Salem County and a local high school baseball coach of 46 years. He knows both families. “I’ve lived here my whole life, and I know everyone in the county feels the same way. This is a rough one.”
On Aug. 29, about an hour after the sun had set, John Gaudreau, an All-Star forward in the NHL, and his younger brother, Matthew Gaudreau, a former professional hockey player and coach at nearby Gloucester Catholic High School, were struck and killed by a driver as they went for a bike ride near their parents’ home. They were preparing for their sister’s wedding in Philadelphia the next day.
John was 31, married with two children, one born in 2022 and another in February. Matthew was 29. His wife is expecting their first child in December.
The New Jersey State Police arrested and charged Sean M. Higgins, 43, of Woodstown, New Jersey, a small village about 10 miles from the site of the accident where the memorial now sits. Similar memorials have popped up wherever John or Matthew Gaudreau played hockey: in Calgary, Alberta; in Columbus, Ohio; in Boston; and at the Hollydell Ice Arena in Sewell, New Jersey, where the brothers skated as boys.
According to the police complaint, Higgins failed a sobriety test and admitted to drinking “five or six beers” before getting behind the
Flowers and hockey sticks mark a roadside memorial to brothers John and Matthew Gaudreau in Oldmans Township, N.J. on Sept. 5, 2024. The night before their sister’s wedding, John and Matthew were fatally struck by a car while riding bicycles near their family home in rural New Jersey. (Rachel Wisniewski/The New York Times)
wheel of his Jeep Grand Cherokee. He will remain in a nearby jail, at least until a pretrial hearing Friday, while the Gaudreau family postponed the wedding of their daughter, Katie, and instead arranged for two funerals on Monday.
“You keep asking yourself: ‘Why? Why did this have to happen?’” said Jerry York, who coached the brothers at Boston College.
“There are no good answers.”
The Gaudreau brothers and Higgins all grew up in the same county, a verdant swath of New Jersey south of Philadelphia. All three were athletes and seemingly all-American boys. Higgins, about a dozen years older, was a star high school baseball player and later joined the Army National Guard.
John and Matty — as their family called him — grew up about 10 miles farther west, in Oldmans Township. They were undersized but amply skilled young hockey stars who learned the game from their father, Guy, a former hockey player originally from Vermont. He coached at Hollydell Ice Arena and at Gloucester Catholic, where the boys went to high school and where Matty had returned to follow in his dad’s footsteps as coach.
‘Tight relationship’
John was the superstar
of the family and the entire region, a hockey prodigy who stunned onlookers with his dazzling puck handling and skating, even when he was just 9 years old.
“You couldn’t take your eyes off him,” said Vince Malts, who played for Guy Gaudreau and later spent a decade in various minor hockey leagues, and now is a mental-performance coach in the NHL. Malts was on Guy Gaudreau’s under-14 team when John was born, in 1993, and over the years was struck by how often he saw him on the ice at Hollydell, either with Matty or by himself. The boys were usually the smallest but had the largest skill set.
Size was always the thing the Gaudreau boys had to overcome. Malts remembers the day John tried out for an under-15 team. At one point, according to Malts, three bigger opponents converged on John at the same time and flattened him. Malts overheard several coaches and scouts behind him complain that John was too small to make it big.
“I remember thinking to myself, ‘But did you see the pass he made?’” Malts said. “Right as he gets taken out, he made this incredible no-look pass to another kid who had an easy breakaway, and Johnny pops right back up. You had to look beyond his size.”
John had more skill, but Matty was a terrific player, too, and although 16 months younger, Matty often seemed like the older brother, according to York, the Boston College coach. When John and his parents made his official visit to Boston, Matty joined them. Toward the end of the visit, in York’s office, John turned to his younger brother for counsel.
“I remember Matty saying, ‘This is where we should go, John,’” York recounted, “and John said, ‘All right, we’ll go to BC.’ They had that special kind of tight relationship.”
John scored 21 goals in his freshman year in 2011-12, the last one a spectacular latethird-period backhand flip to ice the national championship game. After his sophomore year, he could have left to turn professional, but he stayed at Boston College for two more years to play with Matty.
Matty spent four years at BC and then became a prospect for the New York Islanders while John was already an established star for the Calgary Flames. (John signed with the Columbus Blue Jackets two years ago.) Curtis Lazar, now a forward with New Jersey, was teammates with John in Calgary for three seasons, beginning in 2017. He said John’s skill was obvious. But what many did not see was
the humble personality and happy outlook that drew people to John.
‘Super nice to everyone’
“I’ll never forget, one night I met a bunch of my friends in Calgary, and what do you know, Johnny Hockey walks in,” Lazar recalled. “Their jaws hit the ground. But he never acted like a big shot.” After that encounter, Lazar’s friends could not believe what a regular guy John was. “Just super nice to everyone.”
At a recent memorial for the Gaudreau brothers at the Blue Jackets’ arena in Columbus, Erik Gudbranson, a 6-foot-5 defenseman for the Blue Jackets, told a group of fans that his and his teammates’ hearts were “shattered in a million pieces.” He recounted the story of how he would grab John in a bear hug and refuse to let go until John told Gudbranson that he loved him.
“He wouldn’t tell me for a long time,” Gudbranson said to a crowd gathered for the ceremony. “I know now it was because he enjoyed the hugs.”
John Hollinger, a retired police officer in Woodstown, said everyone in the area was talking about the accident and the agony of the Gaudreau family. But they also acknowledged the burden for Higgins’ family.
“By all accounts, he’s a nice guy who made a terrible mistake,” Hollinger said at Gus’s Pizzeria, on South Main Street in Woodstown. “You feel so bad for everybody, especially the Gaudreaus, when you think about how they were getting ready for their sister’s wedding. Just crushing.”
Ware, the retired county commissioner and baseball coach, called Higgins “a great guy,” who was captain of the Woodstown High School baseball team when Ware was the coach. He also knew the Gaudreaus from when he helped get John into the Salem Sports Hall of Fame in 2017.
“An outstanding family,” Ware said. “Both families.”
Back at the memorial at the site of the crash, Harry Fraint Jr., a heavy-equipment operator from nearby Carneys Point, rode up on his bicycle. He had never met the Gaudreaus, he said, although he did recall seeing Higgins play baseball years ago. He described how he had teared up when he heard the news of the brothers’ deaths. Then he pushed off to continue on his ride along that road.
But he circled back. As he gazed down at the flowers and hockey equipment on the grass, he rang the bell on his bike.
The San Juan Daily Star
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