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By THE STAR STAFF
As the Trump administration intensifies its crackdown on suspected narco-terrorists in the Caribbean, the shuttered U.S. Naval Station Roosevelt Roads in Ceiba could be poised for a strategic revival, according to The Center Square publication.
During a White House roundtable held late last week focused on crime and national security, President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told The Center Square about the potential expansion of naval operations in the region -- including the possibility of reactivating Roosevelt Roads, a base closed in 2004 under the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process. Already, the military has been using the base for military practices and other maneuvers.
The former U.S. Naval Station Roosevelt Roads, located in Ceiba on Puerto Rico’s eastern coast and once one of the largest U.S. naval bases in the world, boasts a large-scale airfield and deep-water port facilities. (rooseveltroads.pr.gov)
Roosevelt Roads, located on Puerto Rico’s eastern coast, boasts a large-scale airfield and deep-water port facilities. Its proximity -- less than 600 miles from Venezuela -- makes it a potentially vital asset in countering regional threats, federal officials have noted. The base’s origins date back to 1919, when Franklin D. Roosevelt, then assistant secretary of the Navy, identified Ceiba as a strategic location. It was officially named in 1941 and commissioned in 1943. Over the decades, Roosevelt Roads grew into one of the largest U.S. naval facilities in the world, playing a key role during Cold War operations and regional exercises. However, amid growing protests over military practices in nearby Vieques, the base was closed in 2004, resulting in significant economic disruption.
Since then, the site has been partially repurposed as José Aponte de la Torre Airport, though redevelopment efforts have stalled. Recent sightings of military aircraft operating from the site suggest renewed strategic interest, though no formal reopening has been announced. The STAR inquired about the status of proposed projects at the defunct base but obtained no response.
While Hegseth did not confirm plans to reopen the base, he acknowledged its strategic relevance.
“We’re familiar with the location you’re referring to,” he told The Center Square. “We’ll make sure we’re properly placed to deal with the contingencies there and any ways in which other countries might attempt to get involved.”
Hegseth emphasized the administration’s focus on confronting narco-terrorist networks and foreign influence in the Western Hemisphere.
“Sending a message to these cartels is important,” he said. “For far too long, other presidents have ignored our own backyard, allowing adversaries to gain influence that threatens the
American people. We’re changing that.”
Trump echoed the sentiment, expressing openness to military expansion.
“This is a good time to expand if we want to do it -- and I think we should, and probably will,” he said, touting record military recruitment and the need to counter growing threats, particularly from China’s expanding naval fleet.
The administration’s concerns are underscored by Venezuela’s recent military cooperation with Russia, China and Iran. In 2022, Venezuela hosted joint drills with all three nations, raising alarms about adversarial influence in Latin America.
A report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) warns that Latin America is increasingly vulnerable to geopolitical maneuvering by Russia and Iran. The region, the CSIS notes, offers fertile ground for anti-U.S. sentiment and could serve as a staging area for military cooperation, economic circumvention of sanctions, and even support for militant groups like Hezbollah.
Just hours after the roundtable, Hegseth announced that the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), the first ship in a new class of aircraft carriers , and its escorts -- five guided-missile destroyers, according to reports -- would shift from the Mediterranean to the U.S. Southern Command Area of Responsibility to support counter-drug operations. According to Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell, the move will “bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities” in the region.
The deployment marks the Pentagon’s 10th strike on suspected narco-terrorist operations originating from Venezuela and Colombia, including the use of boats and submersibles.
By THE STAR STAFF
Legislators from the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) in both chambers of the Puerto Rico Legislature are urging the New Progressive Party (NPP) leadership to reconsider House Bill (HB) 420, which proposes a three-year freeze of the inventory tax -- a key source of municipal revenue.
The PDP delegation warns that enacting the bill without a clear replacement for the lost funds could destabilize municipal finances and threaten essential public services.
Reps. Héctor Ferrer Santiago and Domingo Torres García, and Sens. Marially González Huertas and Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz joined their respective caucuses in calling for the bill’s return to committee for revision. Their appeal follows a joint resolution issued Friday by the Puerto Rico Mayors Association, which groups PDP mayors, and its NPP counterpart, the Puerto Rico Mayors Federation, along with the Municipal Revenue Collections Center (CRIM by its acronym in Spanish), demanding a responsible transition plan before any repeal.
“There is consensus, and we agree with the mayors’ demand: this tax cannot be eliminated without first identifying an alternative source of revenue,” Ferrer Santiago said. “Municipalities cannot lose such an important source of revenue
without safeguards would create a fiscal cliff for municipalities, with the burden ultimately falling on residents.
“In the PDP, we have always been clear: we support measures that alleviate the tax burden on the private sector, but this cannot be at the cost of destabilizing the municipalities,” Hernández Ortiz said. “No measure that affects municipal revenues should be approved without first ensuring that essential services to the people are protected.”
The mayors’ resolution proposes freezing the inventory tax for five years, from 2026-2027 to 2030-2031, using the 2024 tax year as a baseline. It also calls for a tax substitution mechanism that would guarantee recurring municipal revenue without imposing new taxes or increasing consumer prices.
PDP legislators emphasized their openness to maintaining a transition period but insisted that any repeal must be accompanied by a clear and sustainable fiscal plan. They urged the NPP majority to heed the bipartisan concerns of municipal leaders and revise the bill accordingly.
without a responsible transition.”
The inventory tax generated $314.8 million in fiscal year 2024, funding critical services such as public safety, road maintenance, waste collection, sports programs and elderly care. PDP legislators argue that removing this revenue stream
Legislative leaders Thomas Rivera Schatz, the Senate president, and Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Núñez, the speaker of the House of Representatives, have said HB 420, which proposes a three-year freeze on the inventory tax, will not be reconsidered by the Legislature.
By THE STAR STAFF
Electoral Comptroller Walter Vélez Martínez announced over the weekend that he has issued special rules for the campaign to fill the seat for mayor of Dorado.
The official issued Determination OCE-DET-2025-05 for the campaign during the special election, as called by the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) in accordance with Act 58-2020.
“Our goal is to establish clear and proportionate rules for a brief campaign while ensuring transparency in political financing,” Vélez Martínez said in a written statement. “This special framework includes a limit on anonymous donations and waives the requirement for candidates with existing campaign committees to create an additional committee. We are committed to protecting voters’ rights to clean and supervised
processes while also facilitating compliance for candidates.”
Due to the expedited nature of the process, candidates who already have a registered campaign committee will not need to establish a “Special Election Committee” to participate in the election. The measure aims to reduce administrative burdens without compromising the oversight set forth by Law 222-2011.
Specifically, the Office of the Electoral Commissioner has established a limit allowing each candidate to raise up to $1,700 in anonymous donations during the special election campaign period, which ends on Nov. 16.
After the campaign concludes, unsuccessful candidates will revert to the general donation limits applicable to the office they are contesting in their respective election cycle. All other legal and regulatory provisions remain
in effect.
The determination also requires the PDP electoral commissioner to officially notify all candidates participating in the special election about the aforementioned rules. Any party adversely affected by this determination may appeal to the Court of Appeals within 30 days, as outlined in Article 11,000 of Law 222-2011.
By THE STAR STAFF
Three people died and two were in serious condition as a result of four road accidents reported between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning in the municipalities of Yabucoa, Mayagüez, Guayanilla and Dorado.
The first incident occurred at 4:25 p.m. Saturday on highway PR-901, kilometer 3.7, near the Tívoli business, in the Camino Nuevo neighborhood of Yabucoa. According to the preliminary investigation, a 31-year-old man
was driving a 2023 KTM Duke motorcycle between lanes, passed other vehicles, and collided with a 2023 Toyota Corolla. The motorcyclist suffered serious injuries. Paramedics transported him to Ryder Hospital in Humacao, where his condition was described as critical. The driver of the car returned a breathalyzer test of 0.081% alcohol.
The second accident occurred at 11:57 p.m. Saturday on PR-64, kilometer 1.2, in Mayagüez. In this incident, motorcyclist Josué Manuel Malavé Bracero, 26, of Candelaria, died when his 2021 Sanmen 150T motorcycle
-- with an expired license plate -- collided with a 2009 Scion TC vehicle. According to police, the driver of the Scion was under the influence of alcohol and returned a breathalyzer test of 0.13% alcohol.
At 1:40 a.m. Sunday morning, Ponce Highway Patrol officers responded to a fatal accident on PR-2, kilometer 205.2, in Guayanilla. The driver of a 2018 Mercedes-Benz E-300, identified as Wilfredo Beltrán Ramos, 54, of Guayanilla, was traveling westbound at excessive speed when he lost control of the steering wheel and struck a metal barrier.
Beltrán Ramos died instantly.
Finally, at 3:26 a.m. Sunday morning, another fatal accident occurred at kilometer 25.2 of PR-165 in Dorado. According to preliminary information, a minor was driving a black 2024 Fengyuan Tank 200 motorcycle with a 20-year-old woman when he lost control and struck a rocky area near the beach. Both suffered serious injuries and were transported to the Río Piedras Medical Center, where the young woman died. The minor remained in critical condition on Sunday.
Highway patrol officers were investigating.
By EVA LAUREANO Special to The STAR
Five years after Puerto Rico enacted a sweeping overhaul of its Civil Code -- the island’s foundational body of private law -- legal scholars are gathering to assess how well the reform has held up in practice.
Inter-American University Law School will host a two-day forum starting Thursday titled “Repercussions of the Application of the 2020 Civil Code Five Years After its Approval.”
“A lot of things have changed, and it’s still too early to tell what the full impact is,” said Pedro Cabán Vales, a law professor at the university.
While the 2020 Civil Code modernized many aspects of private law, Cabán Vales said several provisions remain ambiguous or problematic, especially due to the lack of transitional rules.
Pedro Cabán Vales, a professor at Inter-American University Law School (LinkedIn)
One example is in inheritance law. Under the new code, a deceased person’s estate is now split into two parts instead of three, increasing the portion that can be freely disposed
of to 50%. But wills written before the code’s enactment are creating confusion.
“Lawmakers didn’t specify a transition, so we have to approximate the intent of the will under the new law,” Cabán Vales said.
Similar uncertainty surrounds property defects discovered after the purchase of homes built before the code took effect. Without clear transitional provisions, buyers and courts are left guessing which legal standards apply.
One of the most contentious issues is the treatment of long-term consensual relationships. Cabán Vales pointed to the Supreme Court’s decision in Ramón Lugo Morillo v. Elizabeth Natera Bonilla, which allowed Lugo Morillo to evict his partner of more than 20 years from their shared home. The couple had raised children and built a life together, but the court ruled in favor of Lugo Morillo because he was the sole titleholder.
“The court refused to hear evidence that a communal property regime had been es-
tablished,” Cabán Vales said. “This decision ignores the realities of long-term partnerships and highlights how the code fails to protect vulnerable individuals in informal unions.”
The forum will also explore how the Civil Code applies to modern economic practices, such as short-term rentals. Cabán Vales noted that hosting contracts -- used in platforms like Airbnb -- fall under provisions of the code, but more regulation is needed to address the complexities of the gig economy.
The 2020 Civil Code replaced the 1930 version and became effective on Nov. 28, 2020. Among its key reforms are that: The surviving spouse is now a forced heir, sharing inheritance rights with children. Another provision allows courts to revise or void contracts if one party exploits the other’s vulnerability or if unforeseen events make the contract excessively burdensome. Personal claims such as breach of contract now expire after four years, down from 15.
By THE STAR STAFF
The hearing examiner overseeing Puerto Rico’s energy rate proceedings has denied a motion by the pension system for employees of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) to strike testimony referencing a potential $683 million government reserve fund.
The Electric Power Authority Employees’ Retirement System (SREAEE by its initials in Spanish) had objected to a passage in the prefiled testimony of bondholder witness Anthony Hurley, who cited a news report about the creation of an “Energy Sector Reserve” by the Puerto Rico Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The fund, Hurley testified, was announced as a mechanism to address future needs related to legacy pension obligations and debt service, though it could be used at the government’s discretion for other energy-related purposes.
The SREAEE argued that Hurley’s statement was based solely on a news article and lacked corroboration. The pension system noted that PREPA’s comptroller, Juan C. Adrover Ramírez, had publicly stated he had no personal knowledge of the fund beyond what was reported in the media.
Despite acknowledging the accuracy of
the SREAEE’s summary, Scott Hempling, the hearing examiner, ruled that the testimony should remain in the record.
“Uncertainty about government assistance, like uncertainty about storms, is part of life in Puerto Rico,” the examiner wrote. “To make decisions about rates that will affect customers with certainty, the Energy Bureau must assess all nonrate possibilities.”
If the government were to allocate part of this reserve to cover those obligations, PREPA could reduce its revenue requirement -- the total amount it needs to collect from ratepayers. That, in turn, could lead to lower electricity rates for consumers.
The examiner emphasized that Hurley’s testimony was not a recommendation to reduce PREPA’s proposed revenue requirement by $683 million, but rather a call to remain alert to alternative funding sources. The ruling also noted that similar uncertainty surrounds potential Federal Emergency Management Agency funding, which has not been excluded from consideration.
The $683 million Energy Sector Reserve was announced by the OMB earlier this year as part of broader fiscal planning efforts. While its stated purpose includes supporting pension and debt obligations in the energy sector, the fund’s use remains discretionary, and its avail-
“Uncertainty about government assistance, like uncertainty about storms, is part of life in Puerto Rico,” Scott Hempling, the hearing examiner overseeing Puerto Rico’s energy rate proceedings, wrote in a ruling. “To make decisions about rates that will affect customers with certainty, the Energy Bureau must assess all nonrate possibilities.” (Facebook via Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica)
ability to offset ratepayer costs is uncertain.
PREPA has been ordered to notify the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau, the island’s energy sector regulator, if it obtains more information about the reserve fund. For now, the examiner concluded, the possibility of the $683 million
reserve is relevant to the bureau’s deliberations on rate-setting.
The decision underscores the complexity of Puerto Rico’s energy transition, where financial uncertainty and infrastructure challenges continue to shape regulatory proceedings.
By PATRICIA MAZZEI
If the extra subsidies that help Americans pay for Obamacare insurance plans expire at the end of the year as expected, the most intense reverberations will be felt in South Florida, the country’s top market for the coverage.
As many as a third of the 4.7 million Floridians on Affordable Care Act plans could drop them next year because of the higher costs, according to some estimates.
Françoise Cham, who is 63 and self-employed in the Miami suburbs, hopes she will be able to afford coverage until she can sign up for Medicare at 65. Heather Slivko-Bathurst, 37, expects to have to switch her family in Key West to the skimpier coverage offered through her job at a boating company. Lorraine Avila, a 46-year-old housekeeper in Miami, thinks she is likely to give up coverage altogether, which terrifies her.
“I take care of my kids and my grandkids,” Avila said. “If I don’t have insurance, how can I take care of myself?”
The state’s demographics help explain its high demand for Obamacare: Florida is full of low-wage service and gig workers who cannot get insurance through their jobs, self-employed people and early retirees who are not yet eligible for Medicare.
It is also one of only 10 states that have not expanded Medicaid, the federal health insurance program for low-income people, as allowed under the Affordable Care Act.
Obamacare established government marketplaces where people can buy private insurance using federal subsidies to help keep prices affordable. Enrollment in Obamacare plans soared nationally during the pandemic, when Congress increased the subsidies, in the form of tax credits, that help most people with the coverage pay their premiums. But the extra subsidies are set to expire Dec. 31. A partisan standoff over whether and when to extend them is the main reason for the ongoing government shutdown.
In Florida, the uncertainty has resulted in a political throwback of sorts. Suddenly, the state’s politicians are talking about the Affordable Care Act again, often in urgent terms, 15 years after President Barack Obama signed it into law and several election cycles after it faded as a campaign issue.
government nearly $350 billion over the next 10 years.
Alexis Bakofsky, the deputy commissioner for life and health insurance for the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, told state lawmakers this month that the number of Obamacare enrollees in the state doubled from 2021 to 2024, after the extra subsidies went into effect. From 2024 to 2025, enrollment grew by another 400,000 people, she said.
State Rep. Robin Bartleman, a Democrat from Broward County, in South Florida, urged Bakofsky’s office to proactively notify enrollees about the rate increases and prepare for a flood of people seeking help.
“This crisis is going to happen,” Bartleman said, “and we’re all going to get blamed.”
Florida politics have changed so much in that time that the former presidential battleground state is no longer considered competitive. Miami-Dade County — ground zero for Obamacare, with more than 30% of residents on such plans — now votes Republican, as does the state overall.
Democrats from Miami to Orlando have spent weeks sounding alarms about the expiring subsidies. Open enrollment for 2026 plans is supposed to begin Nov. 1, and insurers have started to notify enrollees that big premium increases are coming.
The biggest impact would be felt by older people at the lower edge of the middle class. Many people in their early 60s who earn around $65,000, for example, would experience a sharp increase in premiums — from a few hundred dollars a month to $1,000 or more.
“The federal government can afford whatever it wants to afford,” Rep. Frederica S. Wilson, a Miami Gardens Democrat, said in an interview. “What is the price to pay for the health care of a human being?”
About 35% of the population in her district is on an Obamacare plan, according to KFF, a health research group. That is one of the
nation’s highest rates.
Gov. Ron DeSantis and some other Florida Republicans have painted the higher subsidies as a boon for insurance companies at the expense of taxpayers, suggesting that the comprehensive coverage provided by Obamacare plans is not worth the cost.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that permanently extending the enhanced subsidies would cost the federal
In Key West, Slivko-Bathurst said she and her husband pay nearly $800 a month to cover themselves and their toddler. Without the subsidies, she said, she would pay $2,000 a month. A few weeks ago, the couple started talking through the “what ifs” of higher premiums. “Unfortunately, some of our non-negotiables are going to have to become negotiable in order for us to be able to afford anything,” Slivko-Bathurst said. Her husband’s employer does not offer health insurance. Her employer offers insurance that provides about half as much coverage as the family’s Obamacare plan does, for the same price. That is likely what they will settle for next year.
“You’re paying a ton of money for very, very little,” she said.
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By MARK SOMMER
It’s been a strange fall in two of New York state’s westernmost counties, Niagara and Erie, on the Canadian border.
Far fewer Canadians are crossing into New York to enjoy the changing foliage and the region’s plentiful vineyards and orchards.
This is not entirely unexpected: Canadians have been scarce at cultural attractions, sporting events and shopping malls in the area since President Donald Trump threatened Canada with tariffs two weeks into his second administration (following through on those threats March 4) and spoke of adding the country as the 51st state.
But that absence has been deeply felt, said Anthony Sprague, general manager of the Buffalo Bisons baseball club, the top minor-league affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays, who are facing off against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series. Canadians typically comprise a quarter of the club’s fan base at its downtown Buffalo, New York, stadium, he said. This season, that share has shrunk to 10%.
The team began receiving season ticket cancellations even before the baseball season got underway in March, Sprague said. “The narrative was all the same: ‘Nothing against you guys, we love you guys, but we need to take a stand by not coming across the border.’”
Tensions aren’t likely to dissipate anytime soon after Trump declared an immediate end to trade negotiations Thursday. His decision followed an angry post on Truth Social over an ad sponsored by the province of Ontario featuring President Ronald Reagan denouncing the use of tariffs.
“We stand ready to pick up on those discussions when the Americans are ready,” Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said in response. On Friday, the premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, said the ad would be withdrawn next week so that trade talks could resume.
Residents of both nations have been driving back and forth and visiting since the Peace Bridge connecting Buffalo and Fort Erie, Ontario, opened in 1927. Many people own homes on both sides of the border.
Patrick Kaler, president of Visit Buffalo Niagara, Erie County’s tourism and convention bureau, worries about how long Canadians’ disenchantment with the United States will continue and what the long-term consequences might be. Canadians typically generate 35% to 40% of the region’s annual tourism revenue, according to the bureau.
“The friendly, congenial nature we have had for years, I’m afraid, is going to be destroyed the longer this carries on,” Kaler said. “We’ve heard people say, ‘We’ll see you in four years,’ but that’s a long time from now.”
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, formerly known as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, had
high hopes of a robust Canadian turnout when it planned its current exhibition, “Northern Lights,” featuring major Nordic and Canadian landscape paintings. The museum, which displays modern and contemporary art and completed a $195 million expansion in 2023, is just 6 miles from the border.
But the throngs of Canadians anticipated when the show opened in August haven’t materialized. Monthly visits by Canadians to the museum over the past two years (tracked using address information from online and in-person ticket sales) hovered between 7% and 10%, a museum spokesperson said. This past February, after Trump took office, that figure plummeted to under 3%, where it has remained, said Janne Sirén, the museum’s director.
The prolonged drop-off is deeply worrisome, Sirén said. “The economic and cultural life of Buffalo is inextricably intertwined with Canada, and the same is true of the Buffalo AKG.”
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House, also in Buffalo, has seen a similar decline in attendance by Canadians since February, according to Jessie Fisher, the CEO of the nonprofit that manages the house.
Several Canadian school group tours have canceled their reservations for this year and 2026, citing the fear some Canadians have of being detained by U.S. agents at the border amid the Trump’s administration’s immigration crackdown, Fisher said.
She said the president’s posture toward Canada had created anger and alienation that, as a longtime Buffalo resident, she regretted as much as the lost revenue.
“When you grow up here, you know all the words to the Canadian national anthem, and when you grow up in southern Ontario, you are a Bills fan,” Fisher said, referring to Buffalo’s NFL team. “We miss our neighbors.”
Bridge crossings into the United States from Canada tell part of the story. In September, the number of vehicles crossing the Peace, Lewiston-Queenston, Rainbow and Whirlpool bridges was down nearly 14% compared with a year earlier, according to the Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority. (That was an improvement from May, when crossings were down 21% year over year.)
The most recent study of Canadians by Longwoods International, a market research firm working with the tourism industry, found that 63% of active travelers said they were less likely to come to the United States, with most citing tariffs and political statements by U.S. leaders.
A slim majority of respondents said they no longer perceived the United States as “a place I would feel welcome” or “a safe place to visit.” They also disagreed that “international travelers are valued there” and that the country is “welcoming to travelers of diverse backgrounds.”
By NICHOLAS KRISTOF
Iworry that my reporting recently from Africa about President Donald Trump’s aid cuts may leave a misimpression that villagers and refugees are helpless flotsam, simply the fragile victims of crises instigated in Washington.
Not true! People in the poorest countries are often, of necessity, masters of strength, adaptability and resilience. They weep as any of us would as their children die because of reckless decisions in Washington, but we in the rich world could learn so much from their fortitude in fighting against impossible odds.
Which brings me to Chantale Zuzi.
Zuzi, who is inspiration personified, was born with albinism about 23 years ago (she’s not sure of her exact birth date) in a hut in a village in Congo. It was an inauspicious beginning: Her maternal grandmother wanted to kill her, thinking that her pale skin was a curse. Fortunately, her parents protected her.
The fifth of 10 children, Zuzi was an excellent student, but school in the village was terrifying. The teacher beat students who gave wrong answers, few girls attended, and in any case children had no textbooks. Other students refused to touch Zuzi because of her skin color, fearing that albinism was contagious.
Then in June 2014, catastrophe: A rival ethnic group attacked her village, burned her home and murdered her parents.
Her oldest brother led the other nine children to safety
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in Uganda, where they arrived with nothing but the clothes they were wearing. At 13, Zuzi was now an orphan and an elementary school dropout, living in a refugee settlement and spending her days looking after her younger siblings.
But life was dangerous for people with albinism, for in parts of Africa they are sometimes killed so that their body parts can be used for witchcraft. So at 16, feeling unsafe, Zuzi fled by herself to Nairobi, Kenya.
“I didn’t understand that there is a border, and you have to have a visa,” Zuzi recalled. Lacking even a passport, she boldly walked across the border and no one stopped her.
In Nairobi, she sought out the U.N. refugee agency, which gave her housing with other orphans. Recognizing the danger faced by those with albinism, it listed her as a candidate for resettlement in the United States.
“Being born with albinism was bad luck, but now it was an opportunity for me to leave the country,” she said. So in 2018, at around 17 years old, Zuzi flew to Massachusetts. A lesbian couple was waiting for her at the airport — puzzling Zuzi, who was barely aware of homosexuality.
“I was like, wow, these two sisters love each other so much they even sleep in one bedroom,” she recalled. “But then they were like, ‘Well, actually, we’re married.’”
Zuzi reasoned that since she had been victimized by discrimination because of what she looked like, she wouldn’t discriminate against others because of who they loved.
She had been out of any regular school for about five years, but now she joined the ninth grade in Worcester, Massachusetts. Zuzi threw herself into her classes and rapidly learned English. She graduated in three years with an A average after taking college-level classes, and then attended Wellesley College.
While at Wellesley, Zuzi became a refugee activist mentored by Hillary Clinton and Angelina Jolie, working with the United Nations, speaking at conferences and giving a TED Talk. Because her life had been transformed by education, she founded a nonprofit, Refugee Can Be, to educate and lift up girls in the Rwamwanja refugee settlement in Uganda where she had once lived. She also became a U.S. citizen and helped eight of her nine siblings move to the United States as well.
After graduating from Wellesley this year, Zuzi is now working full time to try to expand her nonprofit. Recently I spent a day with her in Uganda, where she was greeted as a returning hero.
One refugee, Claude Ruzindana, wept as he told me how he lost his wife this summer to a disease — he wasn’t sure just what it was — after the hospital told him it had run out of medicine because of U.S. aid cuts. He is now focused on his daughter Esther, a sixth grader, who is close to becoming the first girl in the family to finish primary school.
“Because you gave support, I’ve been able to keep her in school,” he told Zuzi. He added proudly, “She loves school!”
I don’t know how effective Zuzi’s nonprofit will be, for it’s relatively new and untested. But I share Zuzi’s story for three reasons.
First, the world is now awash with refugees, mostly unwanted and often despised. Zuzi is a reminder of how they
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in a family album at his home in Rwamwanja Refugee Settlement, Kamwenge District, Uganda, Aug. 20, 2025. Orphaned in a massacre in Congo, a onetime elementary school dropout is now an American and can teach us something about resilience. (Stuart Tibaweswa/The New York Times)
often embody talent, strength, ambition, entrepreneurship and resilience that enrich societies. I admired that pragmatism when I saw in Uganda a line of village women who had walked miles to bring their babies to a clinic for vaccinations — at the same time that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was casting doubt on vaccines in America. These women in Uganda had witnessed children dying for lack of vaccinations, so they were determined to do everything they could to keep their children alive.
Second, while the Trump administration has slashed humanitarian aid and displays a pugnacious indifference to the children dying as a result (“No one has died because the United States has cut aid,” Marco Rubio declared), Zuzi offers an alternative moral vision. Washington can be the apotheosis of fecklessness, but many ordinary people around the world — aid workers, nuns, volunteers, bleeding hearts of all faiths and political leanings — lack power or means but persevere to uphold their values. And so it is that a new American from Congo whose grandmother wanted to kill her at birth and who was an elementary school dropout may be a better role model than our secretary of state.
Third, the greatest untapped resource in the developing world is not oil, gold or rare earth minerals; it is village girls who often are held back from school, married as children and expected to spend their lives fetching water and caring for others. The cruel paradox is that it is only because of a horrific massacre in a remote Congolese village that an orphan named Chantale Zuzi found a path to cultivate herself.
Talent is universal, even if opportunity is not. Sprinkle some education on village girls, and the world can be transformed.
Contact Nicholas Kristof at Facebook.com/Kristof, Twitter. com/NickKristof or by mail at The New York Times, 620 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10018.
DF asume custodia de 5 menores que estaban solos en apartamento en residencial en Salinas
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SALINAS – El Departamento de la Familia asumió la custodia de 5 menores de edad que estaban solos en un apartamento a eso de las 12:07 de la madrugada del domingo, en el residencial Bella Vista, en Salinas.
Según el reporte de la Policía, se recibió una llamada al cuartel que daba cuenta del incidente. Al llegar los agentes encontraron cinco menores de las edades 4, 5, 6 y 8 años sin la supervisión de un adulto.
Fueron puestos bajo custodia por el Departamento de la Familia y transportados a un hospital para evaluación. Como consecuencia, una mujer de 38 años quien es madre de cuatro de los menores y una mujer de 31 años quien es madre de un menor, fueron arrestadas. El caso fue referido al Departamento de la Familia, y a la División de Delitos Sexuales y Maltrato a Menores.
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– Las autoridades rescataron en la tarde del sábado a un hombre en una zona boscosa del área conocida como Playa Icaco, en el complejo Palmas del Mar, en Humacao.
Según la información preliminar, un hombre de 39 años se disponía a bajar por un área boscosa a playa para
pescar cuando resbaló, cayó al vacío desde una altura de aproximadamente 25 pies contra las rocas. El hombre resultó con heridas que le impidieron moverse por sus propios medios.
Personal de la Unidad de Rescate y Emergencias Médicas del Municipio de Humacao y la Guardia Costera , lograron rescatar al hombre. Fue transportado en una unidad aérea de la Guardia Costera al Centro Médico de
Río Piedras, donde su condición fue descrita como de cuidado.
El agente Braulio Sánchez, adscrito a la Unidad Motorizada del Área de Humacao, realizó la investigación.
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SAN JUAN – La Autoridad de Carreteras y Transportación (ACT) informa que, del lunes, 27 de octubre de 2025 al viernes, 31 de octubre, se llevarán a cabo trabajos de demolición de barreras de seguridad en las avenidas Kennedy, Piñeiro y San Patricio, como parte trabajos previos en preparación para el posterior traslado de equipo pesado.
Los trabajos se realizarán en horario nocturno de
10:00 pm a 5:00 am, con el fin de minimizar el impacto al tránsito.
Los trabajos por realizarse serán:
En la Avenida Kennedy, intersección con la calle Monterrey, se realizará la demolición de la barrera en la marginal de la. Durante estos trabajos, se cerrará la marginal de la Avenida Kennedy y la Calle Monterrey, así como el carril derecho de la Avenida en dirección oeste.
En la Avenida Piñeiro se llevará a cabo la demolición de la barrera central y se cerrará el carril izquierdo del
sentido oeste y el carril izquierdo del sentido este de la avenida.
En la Avenida San Patricio se realizarán trabajos de demolición parcial de la rotonda e instalación de barreras plásticas para el control del tránsito comenzando el 30 de octubre.
La ACT exhorta a los conductores a reducir la velocidad, estar atentos a las señales y otros dispositivos para el control del tránsito que se instalarán en el área para la seguridad de los conductores y de los trabajadores.
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By SHAAD D’SOUZA
Last week, Taylor Swift did something highly unusual, in the context of the past decade of her career: She responded, however obliquely, to her critics. And it wasn’t in a song.
Asked by Apple Music radio host Zane Lowe how she felt about the reaction to her 12th original album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” Swift seemed to acknowledge that her latest work hadn’t been universally praised, or invariably defended by her loyal fans.
“I have a lot of respect for people’s subjective opinions on art. I’m not the art police,” she said, turning the focus to her listeners. “Oftentimes, an album is a really, really wild way to look at yourself, right? What you’re going through in your life is going to affect whether you relate to the music I’m putting out at any given moment.”
On record, Swift has rarely been so equivocal. On her 2010 song “Mean,” she promised a critic, “Someday I’ll be big enough so you can’t hit me,” and many of her best tracks wring grand catharsis out of us-vs.-them narratives. In the Swiftiverse, soft forms of persecution — by puritanical families, craven journalists or pop music fans — have provided endless fodder. So have realworld foes whom she has turned into nearly cartoonish enemies in her music: Kanye West, after his infamous VMAs interruption, and Kim Kardashian, for later fanning the flames of that enduring conflict; Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun, the executives who passed around her master recordings; boyfriends who have misled her, or worse.
Swift’s constant underlining of these conflicts — concrete or fantastical — has helped crystallize her image as pop’s perpetual underdog, an Everygirl striving alongside her spangly, invulnerable peers, even as she was well on the path to becoming one of the biggest stars the music world has ever seen.
Swift’s 2014 LP, “1989,” introduced a defining trope of her songwriting: rebuffing, or ironically playing into, the media’s commentary on her personal life. “Shake It Off” and “Blank Space,” two of her biggest hits, called out “haters” who viewed her as a man-eater; on the paranoid, cinematic “I Know Places,” paparazzi become “the hunters” chasing Swift and a partner; on “Wonderland,” prying eyes drive them “mad.” The songs on “1989,” in many ways, provided a clear assessment of Swift’s position in popular culture: Her foes weren’t mean individuals but systems that had long antagonized female stars of her ilk.
By “Reputation” three years later, the specter of her enemies plotting against her and an obsessive public dissecting her had become not just a common antagonist in Swift’s music, but its dark, animating force: “I loved you in spite of deep fears that the world would divide us,” she sang on “Dancing With Our Hands Tied.” Her character was so irreparably blemished by her public battles, she had to shed her old skin: The old Taylor was “dead.” On tour, she performed alongside fake giant snakes, adopting the imagery that Kardashian had used to smear her online.
But as Swift continued to foster an image of herself as perpetually on the ropes, her profile was exponentially expanding. “My reputation’s never been worse,” she sang on that album’s “Delicate”; “Reputation” was her fourth to open with the equivalent of
more than 1 million in sales.
The songs (and their success) reaffirmed the idea that Swift is at her most energized, perhaps even most ingenious, when in a defensive pose. In 2019, when Borchetta, the owner of her former label, Big Machine, sold the masters of her first six albums to Braun, a talent manager and associate of West, she kicked into a new creative gear. Swift began releasing exact re-creations of the albums she didn’t own, packaged with new songs and artwork; the project gave her desire for retribution, previously just fuel for her lyrics, an ambitious formal conceit. She implicated listeners in her struggle in the process: In fan parlance, the original records became “stolen versions,” as opposed to the rerecordings, “Taylor’s Versions.”
Swift had long fought her own battles. After the sale of her masters galvanized her fans, they loudly joined the fight, attacking anyone they perceived as an enemy, from actual foes like Braun to critics who negatively reviewed her albums. (In at least one instance, a writer was doxed because her positive review was not positive enough.) The Swifties, previously anodyne compared with many other online “stan armies,” were becoming known as trigger-happy and deeply vindictive.
And their numbers were growing: The Taylor’s Version project, as well as her stripped-back pandemic albums “Folklore” and “Evermore,” introduced younger listeners to her back catalog and endeared older listeners to her image. By the release of “Midnights” in 2022, Swift had proved herself to be an unstoppable sales force and a practically invulnerable public figure. By 2024, after tickets to her Eras Tour were so in demand, they caused a Ticketmaster meltdown, Swift was unquestionably the center of pop’s solar system.
The Eras Tour ended in December 2024, after garnering nearly universal praise and grossing more money than any tour in history. In May, she bought back her masters, triumphing over Borchetta and Braun. West, her longtime nemesis now known as Ye, was no longer welcome in the rarefied spaces they had once shared. She had a boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, who, like her, was dominant and beloved in his field.
And yet “Showgirl” is one of her most bitter, combative records in a long while. Multiple songs, including “Father Figure” and “Actually Romantic,” seemingly attempt to pick feuds with industry figures. “Wish List” and “Honey,” ostensibly love songs, place her happiness with Kelce in a paradigm of conflict, outlining the privacy they’ve been denied and the terms of endearment that were once weaponized against her. “They say I’m bad news / I just say, ‘Thanks,’” she sings on “Elizabeth Taylor.” “Cancelled!” is a three-minute homage to being offed for “one single drop” of unapproved behavior.
The disconnect is sharp and didn’t escape fans and critics. Journalists, once so fearful of Swift’s fans that the magazine Paste declined to attribute a byline to its pan of “The Tortured Poets Department,” gave “Showgirl” pointed reviews. Swifties haven’t stepped up to defend her as much as they previously did. Many have pointed out that the numerous deluxe and limited-edition versions of this album — and its one-weekend-only cinematic event film — felt more like commercial than creative ventures.
Of course, “Showgirl” sold more than 4 million copies in the United States in its first week, obliterating a record previously held by Adele. By the numbers, Swift is bigger than ever. But reputationally, she might finally be the underdog she always saw herself as.
The U.S. stock rally confronts a potentially consequential week to keep its momentum heading into yearend, including a flood of corporate results headlined by megacap companies and a likely interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve after its two-day policy meeting.
U.S.-China trade tensions could come to a head in the coming days, while a persistent U.S. government shutdown further unsettles the backdrop for investors.
Stocks have weathered increased volatility this month, with the S&P 500 posting an all-time closing high on Friday, after a 36% climb since its low for the year in April. The benchmark index is up over 15% year-to-date.
Given that the market has rallied for several months without a particularly significant decline, equities could remain choppy in the days ahead, said Chris Fasciano, chief market strategist at Commonwealth Financial Network.
“What we need to see is continued earnings beats and corporate America talking positively about the economy,” Fasciano said. “When people start to get nervous, it’s when they see consumer confidence coming down, or business confidence coming down.”
Third-quarter earnings season is off to a solid start overall, despite disappointments this week from companies such as streamer Netflix and chipmaker Texas Instruments. Including results from 143 companies that have reported, S&P 500 profits are estimated to have increased 10.4% from a year ago, according to LSEG IBES data as of Friday. So far, 87% of companies have topped analysts’ earnings estimates and 82% have beaten revenue estimates - both higher than historically typical rates.
Next week is the busiest of the season, with over 170 companies expected to report. They include Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta Platforms, five of the “Magnificent Seven,” a group of companies with huge market capitalizations whose shares dominate equity indexes and which overall have posted outsized profit growth over the past couple of years.
Their profit edge over the rest of the index is narrowing, but the Magnificent Seven are still expected to post stronger results this period. Earnings for the group are expected to rise 16.6% against an 8.1% rise for the rest of the index,
according to data this week from Tajinder Dhillon, senior research analyst at LSEG.
A number of the megacap companies are also key players in the artificial intelligence industry, enthusiasm for which has been a main driver of stock market performance.
“The factor that is probably going to have the most influence between now and the end of the year is going to be these big tech (reports),” said Anthony Saglimbene, chief market strategist at Ameriprise Financial. “The hurdle rate is very high for these companies coming into next week’s earnings.”
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The Fed is widely expected to lower its current benchmark rate of 4%-4.25% by another quarter percentage point when it decides on policy on Wednesday, a view supported by tamer-than-estimated inflation data on Friday. With that rate move already factored into asset prices, markets are likely to be more sensitive to any forward-looking language from Fed Chair Jerome Powell, with the central bank expected to cut rates further at its next meeting in December.
By NAZANEEN GHAFFAR
Jamaica could face one of the strongest landfall storms in its recorded history as Hurricane Melissa moves through the Caribbean, and forecasters predict it will hit the island Tuesday as an “upper-end” Category 4 hurricane.
The National Hurricane Center’s records, which date back to 1850, show that Jamaica has only ever been hit by one Category 4 storm, and that happened 37 years ago. That storm was Hurricane Gilbert in 1988, which was also known on the island as “Wild Gilbert.”
It made landfall near Kingston, with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph — only just qualifying as a Category 4 storm, which has winds of 130 mph to 156 mph.
Gilbert tore across the entire island, displacing an estimated 500,000 people — around one-fifth of the population — and killing 45.
The island’s power and water systems were shut down, and even as the storm emerged from the west coast later that afternoon, its winds remained dangerously strong at 125 mph.
In a later review, the hurricane center said the destruction in Jamaica offered “grim evidence” of the life-threatening effects and deep economic disruption a storm of that power could unleash.
As of Sunday morning, Philippe Papin, a senior hurricane specialist at the hurricane center, said that Hurricane Melissa was expected to have wind strengths at the highest end of a Category 4 storm as it nears Jamaica.
“In our latest forecast, the system looks to be a 155 miles per hour Category 4 hurricane on Tuesday morning,” he said. “And it’s looking increasingly likely that Jamaica will have a direct impact from Hurricane Melissa.”
Since the turn of the century, three Category 4 hurricanes have tracked close enough to batter the island, including Hurricane Beryl in 2024, which skimmed the south
Leroy Martin listens to the news as he takes shelter inside the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica in preparation for Hurricane Dean on Sunday, August 19, 2007. Jamaica could face one of the strongest landfall storms in its recorded history as Hurricane Melissa moves through the Caribbean. (Barbara P. Fernandez/The New York Times)
coast, unleashing damaging winds, storm surge and flooding that caused more than $200 million of damage.
In 2007, Hurricane Dean followed a similar path near Jamaica, leaving behind around $300 million in destruction. Similarly, Hurricane Ivan in 2004 passed just south of the island, resulting in 17 fatalities and nearly $600 million in damage.
Though it was a Category 5 as it approached Jamaica, Hurricane Allen became a Category 4 as it neared the island in 1980. Despite not making landfall, the storm caused $100 million in damage and killed eight people.
The island has also withstood other damaging storms
even if they were not classified as strong as a Category 4.
In August 1951, Hurricane Charlie slammed into Jamaica and was considered at the time to be the nation’s “worst hurricane disaster of the century,” according to a federal report.
Charlie packed winds greater than 110 mph and brought 17 inches of rain, causing an estimated $50 million (more than $620 million today) in damage to property and crops. The storm killed 152 people, injured 2,000 others and left approximately 25,000 residents homeless.
Charlie remained the last hurricane to make landfall in Jamaica until Gilbert arrived 37 years later.
A Category 3 hurricane in 1912 hit the island with peak sustained winds of 115 mph. However, in a reanalysis by the hurricane center, it was noted that rainfall leading to flash flooding proved to be the most destructive, especially in the northwest side of the island.
Several towns were reported to have been wiped out by the winds and tidal waves and at least 100 lives were lost in that storm.
A hurricane in 1903 made landfall Aug. 11 and, according to a monthly weather review at the time, caused a “heavy loss of life and property.” At least 65 people were killed.
It’s not always the strongest storms that deliver the harshest blows. Sometimes it is size that matters — as was the case with Hurricane Sandy.
In October 2012, Sandy hit Jamaica as a Category 1 storm. However, its vast size produced a maximum storm rainfall of more than 28 inches. It caused around $100 million in damage and killed three people.
Tropical Storm Gustav in 2008 illustrates that lower wind speeds can still be deadly.
Though never reaching hurricane strength, Gustav produced torrential rainfall, widespread flooding and mudslides, which caused approximately $210 million in damage and killed 15 people.
By MATINA STEVIS-GRIDNEFF
President Donald Trump doubled down Saturday in his feud with Canada over a television ad that used audio of former President Ronald Reagan denouncing tariffs, saying he would punish the country with an additional 10% tariff on its goods.
Trump had already suspended monthslong trade talks with Canada, the U.S.’ second-largest trading partner, on Thursday night because of the ad, which had been paid for by Ontario. Although the ad faithfully reproduced Reagan’s words, just
in a different order, Trump has insisted it was “fraudulent” after the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute said it had made “selective” use of the five-minute original address.
The latest twist in the Canada-U.S. saga comes as the two countries have been locked in intensive talks over lowering some U.S. tariffs on key Canadian goods. The countries’ relationship has drastically deteriorated since Trump’s election, as he has menaced the close U.S. ally with tariffs and spoken of making Canada the 51st state.
Canadians have reacted with anger and have
rallied around the flag in a rare burst of patriotism, but the Canadian economy has been suffering the consequences of the dispute. Ontario, in particular, has much at stake in trade relations with the United States, and its premier on Friday posted the entire Reagan address online.
The audio used in the province’s ad was authentic, and minor edits to the original 1987 address did not alter the substance of Reagan’s remarks, which were highly critical of tariffs’ consequences. Following Trump’s outrage, though, the province pulled it from the airwaves, effective Monday.
Still, the commercial was shown during the first World Series game Friday evening, during which the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers in a home game. The ad also aired during the Saturday evening game between the two teams.
“The sole purpose of this FRAUD was Canada’s hope that the United States Supreme Court will come to their ‘rescue’ on Tariffs that they have used for years to hurt the United States,” Trump said in a social media post Saturday afternoon.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is set to begin hearing oral arguments early next month in a legal challenge to some of the president’s tariffs, including many of those he has placed on
Canadian exports.
“Because of their serious misrepresentation of the facts, and hostile act, I am increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now,” Trump wrote.
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He did not provide further details over how the additional tariff would apply and on which goods.
After Trump said he was increasing tariffs, Dominic LeBlanc, Canada’s minister for trade relations with the United States, said in a statement that Canada was “ready to build on the progress made in constructive discussions with American counterparts over the course of recent weeks.”
A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
a 50% tariff (in line with the rest of the world), softwood lumber is subject to a 10% tariff on top of other preexisting levies, and some auto parts are subject to a 25% tariff.
Despite the focus on the Reagan ad, a top White House economics adviser, Kevin Hassett, said on Friday after the suspension of talks with Canada that “the frustration has built up over time.”
“The Canadians have been very difficult to negotiate with,” he added in comments to the news media.
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Trump announced the tariff increase as he was en route to Malaysia, the first stop on a tour of Asia, where governments are seeking to stabilize ties with the United States after months of tariff disputes. Mindful of how Trump’s diplomacy can shift overnight, many of those nations are trying to stay in his good graces.
The United States still has a relatively low average rate of tariffs on Canadian goods, because most of the levies are not applied to goods covered by the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a free trade deal that Trump negotiated in his first term. But the Trump administration has applied other harsh tariffs on goods critical to the Canadian economy: autos, steel, aluminum and lumber.
Canadian steel and aluminum are subject to
While Canada has rolled back most of its retaliatory measures against the United States as part of the ongoing talks, it did cap the number of Stellantis and General Motors vehicles made in the United States that can be imported into Canada tariff-free after both companies slashed jobs in Canada, dealing a major blow to the country’s important automotive industry.
“This is the latest in a series of unprovoked and unwarranted escalations in tariff policy with other sovereign nations,” said Flavio Volpe, the president of Canada’s Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, a trade group. “Lost in the accountability loop here is the president’s threat is really to charge American taxpayers billions of dollars because of a benign World Series ad he doesn’t like,” he added.
President Trump speaks on Air Force One before arriving in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. President Trump said on Saturday that he would increase tariffs on Canadian goods by 10 percent to punish America’s second-largest trading partner over an ad, paid for by the province of Ontario, that used original audio of Ronald Reagan denouncing tariffs. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE AGUADILLA. DAYANARA SOTO ROMÁN PETICIONARIOS EX-PARTE
CIVIL NÚM.: AG2025CV01482. SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS
A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE
POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en el barrio Saltos de San Sebastián, Puerto Rico según plano de inscripción realizado por Enrique Torres Cortés, compuesta de mil setecientos setenta y uno punto cero ciento veintiocho metros cuadrados (1, 771.0128 MC) equivalentes a cero punto cuatro mil quinientos seis cuerdas
de terreno (0.4506 cdas.) en lindes al NORTE, con Ivelisse Soto y camino; al SUR, ESTE y OESTE, con Ángel Román. No contiene datos de inscripción. Catastro: 071-077-47613-000. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lcdo. Héctor J. Cardona Muñiz, 100 Emilio González Suite 1, Isabela, P.R. 00662; cel: 787-410-9185. Se le informa además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 24 de abtril de 2026, a las 3:30 pm, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Aguadilla, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 18 de septiembre de 2025. Sarahi Reyes Pérez, Sec Regional. Arlene Guzmán Pabón, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO.
JOSÉ MOLINA OCASIO Y CARMEN ESQUERETE BRACHE, t/c/p CARMEN ESQUERET BRACHE
PETICIONARIOS
EX-PARTE
CIVIL NÚM.: AR2025CV01727.
SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
los siguientes gravámenes posteriores los cuales podrán ser cancelados: HIPOTECA: en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Firstbank Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por $102,600.00 al 6.750% anual, vencedero el 1 de septiembre de 2020, según Esc. #254 en Carolina el 30 de agosto de 2005 ante Yvannie Arroyo Casillas, inscrita al folio 158 del tomo 1124 de Santurce Norte, finca #18752 inscripción 8va. AVISO DE DEMANDA: dictado el 2 de junio de 2009 en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, caso civil #KCD-2009-2189 sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca seguido por Firstbank de Puerto Rico mediante la cual se solicita el pago de la deuda garantizada con las hipotecas de las inscripciones 7ma y 8va reducidas a $397,583.89 y $99,182.76 respectivamente o la venta en pública subasta, anotado en virtud de la Ley #216 del 2010 al folio 1173 del tomo 1235 de Santurce Norte el 17 de noviembre de 2017 finca #18752 inscripción 9na. AVISO DE DEMANDA dictado el 15 de agosto de 2014 en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de San Juan caso civil #KCD2014-1875 sonre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca seguido por DLJ Mortgage Capital vs. Grace Monje La Fosse, mediante la cual se solicita el pago de la deuda garantizada con la hipoteca de la inscripción 7ma reducida a $397,583.89 o la venta en pública subasta, anotado al tomo Karibe el 17 de noviembre de 2017 finca #18752 de Santurce Norte, anotación “A”. AVISO DE DEMANDA con Prohibición de Enajenar dictado en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de San Juan sobre Interdicto sobbre Cobro de Dinero caso civil #SJ2020CV046413 seguido por la Junta de Directores del Condominio Solemar vs Grace Monje La Fosse, mediante la cual se reclama el pago de $6,384.89 por concepto de deuda con la póliza de seguro, según Orden del 3 de mayo de 2021 y Mandamiento del 11 de mayo de 2021, anotado al tomo Karibe finca #18752 de Santurce Norte, el 28 de junio de 2021 anotación “B”. EMBARGO ESTATAL contra Grace Monge Laffosse (así surge) seguro social #XXX-XX-1644 por la suma de $40,135.86 en concepto de Ley #210 del 2015, según Certificación expedida por el Departamento de Hacienda de Puerto Rico el 13 de julio de 2022, anotado al asiento 2022006686-EST el 21 de julio de 2022 en el Sistema de Embargos y Sentencias Karibe. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar The
A: todo aquel que tenga algún derecho real o interés sobre el inmueble descrito en la petición de dominio que muestra el epígrafe; a las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción, a los anteriores dueños y sus sucesores: Juan Oliveras Martínez, Margarita Ponce y Joaquina
Rosario Molina; a los anteriores colindantes del predio “A”: Eustaquio
Rosario Molina, Tomas Rosario, José Veraza y Abraham Méndez y a sus sucesores; a los anteriores colindantes del predio “B”: Eustaquio
Rosario Molina, Tomas Rosario y José Molina y a sus sucesores; y a los actuales colindantes por el lado Norte: David C. Torres Amenábar; por el Sur: Ana L. Rosario Velázquez; al Este: calle municipal (Municipio de Arecibo) y por el Oeste: Luis Correa y Margarita Agosto; a las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción, y en general a toda persona que desee oponerse: Por la presente se le notifica para que comparezcan si creyeren que les conviene, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los VEINTE (20) DIAS a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por el peticionario para adquirir el dominio sobre la siguiente propiedad:
RÚSTICA: Solar localizado en barrio Miraflores de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de DOS MIL CIENTO CINCO PUNTO CERO OCHOCIENTOS OCHENTA Y TRES DIEZ MILESIMAS DE OTRO (2,105.0883 M.C.) En lindes, por el NORTE, con David C. Torres Amenabar; con el SUR, con Ana L. Rosario Velázquez; por el ESTE, con calle municipal y OESTE, con Luis Correa y Margarita Agosto. Enclava una casa de hormigón dedicada a vivienda. No consta inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad. Catastro número 053-084-876-48. Dicha descripción y colindancias es el agregado de los solares que se describen a continuación: Solar A: RUSTICA: Parcela de terreno, radicada en el barrio Miraflores, del término municipal de Arecibo, con un área superficial de un cuadro de terreno, o sea, VEINTICINCO CENTIMOS DE CUERDA (0.25 CDA). En lindes por el NORTE, con la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el SUR, con Tomas Rosario; por el ESTE, con la finca principal y por el OESTE, con José Veraza y Abraham Méndez. Solar B: Parcela de terreno radicada en el barrio Miraflores del término municipal de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, compuesta de medio cuadro de terreno o sea equivalentes doce y medio céntimos de terreno (12 ó ctms
cda.), que linda al NORTE, con la finca principal; por el SUR, con Tomas Rosario Molina; por el ESTE, con la finca principal y por el OESTE, con José Molina Ocasio. Deben notificar con copia de sus alegaciones al Lcdo. Fernando H. Padrón Jiménez, PO Box 2833, Arecibo, PR 00613-2833. Tel. / Fax (787) 816-6732. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico a 15 de septiembre de 2025. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZALEZ, SECRETARIA/ Pilar H. Mercado González, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR MCLP ASSET COMPANY INC.
Demandante V. GRACE MONGE LA FOSSE T/C/C GRACE MONGE LA FONSSE
Demandados Civil Núm.: KCD2014-1875. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, PEDRO HIEYE
GONZÁLEZ, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 4 de abril de 2023, y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $397,583.89 de principal, dictada en el caso de autos el 10 de marzo de 2021, notificada el 11 de marzo de 2021, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el: Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartament number 2-C, located on the second floor of the Condominium Solemar at the Condado Section, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico. It has a private area of approximately 1,190.00 square feet. Its boundaries are as follows: on the North, with stairway, incinerator and corridor to elevators; on the East, with wall facing open concrete terrace, the Atlantic Ocean and Presbyterian Hospital; on the South, with exterior wall facing entrance ramp and visitors parking and, on the
West, with wall facing open concrete terrace and extension of Washington Street. This apartment consists of living dining room, two bedrooms, one bathroom, kitchen, laundry, one vestibule, one linen closet, one utility closet and one compartment for air conditioning. This kitchen is equipped with kitchen cabinets an electric range, hood, and garbage disposal unit. The apartment is located genarally toward the South end of the building and its principal entrance leads to the hallway which gives access to the elevators. The kitchen door leads to the stairway. The above described property has a right of exclusive use as an annex to the right of private ownership of said property to use a duly marked and numbered space located on the basement of the building for the purpose of parking a motor vehicle. Corresponde a este apartamento en los elementos comunes generales una participación igual a 2.5225% y en los elementos comunes limitados corresponde a este apartamento una participación igual a 33.7440%.
Finca 18752, inscrita al folio 206 del tomo 517 de Santurce Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección I. Que con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $410,400.00, para la propiedad descrita. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo de 2/3 partes del valor de la tasación, o sea $273,600.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo será de la 1/2 del valor de la tasación, o sea $205,200.00. Para el lote descrito, la PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 4 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA
SUBASTA el día 13 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA
SUBASTA el día 25 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan. Del Estudio de Título realizado surgen
el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, a 2 de octubre de 2025. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL SUPERVISOR, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR SAN JUAN.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HUMACAO LUIS ENRIQUE LOPEZ ALVARADO
Peticionario
EX PARTE
Civil: NG2025CV00112. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A SUCESIÓN JIMÉNEZ Y CUALQUIER PERSONA QUE PUDIESE TENER
INTERÉS Y TODA PERSONA QUE PUEDA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN SOLICITADA, A LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y A LOS TENGAN EN LA FINCA DESCRITA MÁS ADELANTE CUALQUIER DERECHO REAL, A LOS ORGANISMOS PÚBLICOS AFECTADOS, Y EN GENERAL, A TODO AQUEL QUE DESEE OPONERSE A LA PETICIÓN. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que se ha radicado una petición sobre expediente de Dominio ante el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico Sala Superior de Fajardo bajo el número del epígrafe que puede afectar sus derechos. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es: Lcdo. Edmundo Ayala Oquendo P.O. Box 1105 Fajardo 00738, teléfono 787 603-4277 edmundoayala129@gmail.com A través de la petición el peticionario de epígrafe solicita a este Tribunal que declare a su favor la Petición sobre Expediente de Dominio sobre el predio de terreno objecto de esta para ser reconocido como adquirido y ocupado por el peticionario. Esta notificación se hace a tenor con lo provisto por el Artículo 185 de la ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 (30 LPRA 6221). La descripción original y actual de la finca objecto de la presente Petición sobre Expediente de Dominio es la siguiente: RÚSTICA Parcela de terreno sita en el Barrio Rio Blanco del Municipio de Naguabo Puerto Rico con cabida superficial; de 92181.7731 m/c equivalentes a 23.4536 cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE con terrenos sucesión Melquiades Gonzales de Jesus, por el SUR con terrenos de Enrique Pagan Luyendo y Juan Hernández, por el ESTE, por el OESTE con terrenos de Enrique Pagan Luyando y sucesión de Melquiades González. Catastro: 203-000-008-16. Este Tribunal ordeno que se publique este edicto en un periódico de circulación general para que aquellos que deseen oponerse así lo hagan ante el Tribunal notificando al abogado del peticionario referido en este Edicto. Los interesados contaran con el término improrrogable de 20 veinte días a partir de la (3) tercera publicación de este edicto para comparecer ante el tribunal para alegar lo que en derecho proceda. Se le advierte que de no comparecer al Tribunal para expresarse, el Tribunal podrá dar curso a los remedios solicitados por
SALA DE BAYAMÓN.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO
LUIS ALBERTO WHARTON OCASIO Y OTROS
Demandante V. JOHN DOE Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: HU2025CV00973. (Salón: 208). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ANDRÉS SÁEZ MARREROPRSERVICE@TMPPLLC.COM. YECIRAN LI MORALES YEJOYECIRANLI@YAHOO.COM.
A: JOHN DOE, JANE DOE, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ, DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de octubre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de octubre de 2025. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 21 de octubre de 2025. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. LISA M. FIGUEROA RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA MUNICIPAL DE BARCELONETA
VALARIE VALENTIN DE LUCIA T/C/C VALARIE DE LUCIA Y JOSE VALENTIN
Parte Demandante V. AIDA VALENTIN
RODRIGUEZ T/C/C AIDA I AYALA VALENTIN, FULANO DE TAL, MENGANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV09003. Sala: 403. Sobre: DIVISIÓN, PARTICIÓN Y ADJUDICACIÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: AIDA VALENTÍN RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C AIDA I. AYALA VALENTÍN - 31 BUTLER DRIVE, GOSHEN, NEW YORK 10924. Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante este Tribunal, demanda para la División, Partición y Adjudicación de la Comunidad de Bienes Hereditarios, en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. Representa a la parte demandante los abogados cuyos nombres y dirección se consigna de inmediato: Lcdo. Andrés Sáez Marrero, Kendall Krans Law Offices, PSC., Centro Internacional de Mercadeo, Carr. 165 Edif. #100, Suite 608, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968; teléfono: 787-641-8818 y número facsímile 787-753-1823. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar el original de su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal, con copia al(a los) abogado(s) de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma, y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 20 de octubre de 2025. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. PILAR H. MERCADO GONZÁLEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE PUERTO RICO SALA DE FAJARDO. RAFAEL ÁNGEL
MELÉNDEZ PACHECO Y ROSAIDA MARTÍNEZ FONTAN
DEMANDANTES v FULANO Y MEGANO DE TAL, como posibles
tenedores desconocidos del pagaré extraviado. DEMANDADOS
CIVIL NUM: FA2025CV00585. SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR PAGARE
EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A : FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL Y PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS
POR la presente se notifica que la parte demandante ha incoado un pleito solicitando la cancelación de un Pagaré Extraviado garantizado por hipoteca a favor Citibank, por la suma principal de $60,000.00, al 10 % de interés anual. Vencimiento al 1 de diciembre de 2020. Así resulta de la Escritura número 530, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Carlos M. Franco, el día 27 de noviembre de 1990 y del número de testimonio 16,367 otorgado por Rafa l Ángel Meléndez Pacheco Y Rosaida Martínez Fontan, el 27 de noviembre de 1990 ante el Notario Carlos M. Franco. . Inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad de sección primera de Fajardo, Sección 1, inscripción tercera (3). Representa a la parte demandante el Licenciado ANGEL ANTONIO COLON, cuya dirección postal es: PO Box 8210, Bayamón, P.R. 00960-8210, teléfono (787) 798-5271, correo electrónico: lcdo.angelcolon@gmail.com.
Este Pagaré hipotecario grava la finca número 14,893, al folio 254, del tomo 346, Registro de la Propiedad, sección primera de Fajardo, inscripción tercera (3). Se le apercibe que a cualquier persona natural o jurídica con interés en la presente acción que de no comparecer a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, se le anotará rebeldía y en su consecuencia, se dictará sentencia cancelando el Pagaré de referencia sin más citarle ni oírle. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 23 de septiembre de 2025. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. LYDIA E. RIVERA MIRANDA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGUEZ. ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
PARTE DEMANDANTE VS. NILKEMANES
VAZQUEZ SANCHEZ
PARTE DEMANDADA
CIVIL NÚM. MZ2025CV00889.
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC-
TO. Estados Unidos de América El Presidente de los Estados Unidos El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. SS: A: NILKEMANES
VAZQUEZ SANCHEZ 9811 CRISTINA DR, RIVERVIEW FL 33569
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:/// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico, hoy día 12 de agosto de 2025. Lcda. Norma Santana Irizarry, Secretario(a). Annette Guzmán Medina, Secretario(a) Auxiliar. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante V. ALFREDO A. DE JESÚS JIMÉNEZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GB2025CV00330. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ALFREDO A. DE JESÚS JIMÉNEZ - URB COLINAS DE GUAYNABO F-21 CALLE HUCAR, GUAYNABO PR 00969; 16901 NW 70TH AVE, HIALEAH FL 33015.
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 Edic-
to. 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, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy 14 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA. BRENDA G. ZAMOT SALGADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante V. ALEXIS J. RIVERA GUZMÁN
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GB2025CV00318. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ALEXIS J. RIVERA GUZMÁN - 7 CALLE RAMÓN MURGA APT 16, GUAYNABO PR 00971; 1 MARINE VIEW PLZ APT 4A, HOBOKEN NJ 07030. 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, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy 14 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA. BRENDA G. ZAMOT SALGADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante V. ANA M. JARABO BENGOA Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GB2025CV00338. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ANA M. JARABO BENGOAURB PARKVILLE E11 CALLE CLEVELAND, GUAYNABO PR 009694413; 23 CALLE NOGAL, GUAYNABO PR 00968. 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, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy 14 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA. BRENDA G. ZAMOT SALGADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. SULAICA A HOFFMAN CID
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TJ2025CV00183. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: SULAICA A HOFFMAN CID - URB MONTE TRUJILLO 310 PARQUE TERRALINDA, TRUJILLO ALTO PR 009764062; COND PARQUE TERRALINDA APT C-10 TRUJILLO ALTO 00976.
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, Gabriel Ramos Colon cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección
gabriel.ramos@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de agosto de 2025. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. ALEXIS E ROSARIO LAJARA Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV04343. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ALEXIS E ROSARIO LAJARABO OBRERO 733 CALLE GAUTIER BENITEZ, SAN JUAN PR, 00915-3918; URB PUERTO NUEVO 1202 C CANARIAS, SAN JUAN 00920. 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, Gabriel Ramos Colón cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel. ramos@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de agosto de 2025. SRA. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ENID DÍAZ RÍOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
D/B/A CELINK
Demandante V. SECRETARIO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESAROLLO URBANO DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2025CV03771. (Salón: 504). Sobre: SENTENCIA DECLARATORIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
FRANCES L. ASENCIO GUIDOFRANCES.ASENCIO@GMLAW.COM.
A: FULANO DE TAL COMO PERSONA QUE OSTENTE COMO ACREEDOR HIPOTECARIO DEL PAGARÉ CUYO RANGO REGISTRAL ES IMPUGNADO.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de octubre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 17 de octubre de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 17 de octubre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA.
VIVÍAN J. SANABRIA ORTIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE SAN JUAN.
NORA I. CATT
Parte Peticionaria V. BRANDON J. CATT
Parte Peticionado
CIVIL NÚM.: OPA-2025-53082. SALA NÚM.: SOBRE: Violencia Doméstica (Ley Núm. 54). CITACIÓN POR EDICTO.
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE NORTEAMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. ss A: Brandon J. Catt 1820 Da vis A ve. Juneau, AK 99087 Se le notifica a usted que se
ha radicado en esta Secretaría una Petición de Orden Protección al amparo de la Ley 57 para la Prevención del maltrato, preservación de la unidad familiar y para la seguridad, bien estar y protección de los menores. Que, la vista está pautada para el 12 de noviembre de 2025. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le cite a usted por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Se le cita y requiere que dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto excluyendo el día de la publicación de este edicto comparezca ante este Tribunal a la vista antes pautada o presente moción. Usted deberá comparecer en la Sala de Investigaciones del Tribunal de San Juan. Si comparece por derecho propio y no radica por conducto de un representante legal debe enviar copia de las mociones a las oficinas del Lcdo. Carlos Luis Rivera de Jesús a: y_criveradejesusjd@gmail.com o P.O. Box 1788 Guaynabo, P.R. 00970; Tel (787) 720-4040 Ext. 3753/3754, Abogado de la Parte Peticionaria. Si dejare de hacerlo, podrá dictarse Orden de protección contra usted concediéndole el remedio solicitado en la demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, a 6 de octubre de 2025. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. PURA M. ROMAN MORALES, SECRETARIA SERVICIOS A SALA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE SAN JUAN.
NORA l. CATT
Parte Peticionaria v BRANDON J. CATT
Parte Peticionado CIVIL NÚM.: SJL 5720230344. Sala num. SOBRE: Violencia Doméstica (Ley Núm 54). CITACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE NORTEAMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: Brandon J. Catt 1820 Davis Ave. Juneau, AK 99
Se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría una Petición de Protección al amparo de la Ley 57 para la Prevención del maltrato, preservación de la unidad familiar y para la seguridad, bien estar y protección de los menores. Que, la vista está pautada para el 12 de noviembre de 2025. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le cite a usted por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general, Se le cita y requiere que dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes
a la publicación de este edicto excluyendo el día de la publicación de este edicto comparezca ante este Tribunal a la vista antes pautada o presente moción. Usted deberá arecer en la Sala de Investigaciones del Tribunal de San Juan. Si comparece por derecho propio y no radica por conducto de un representante legal debe enviar copia de las mociones a las oficinas del Ledo. Carlos Luis Rivera de Jesús i jesusidiigmail.com o P.O. Box 1788 Guaynabo, P.R. 00970; Tel (787) 720-4040 Ext. 3753/3754, Abogado de la Parte Peticionaria. Si dejare de hacerlo, podrá dictarse Orden de protección contra usted concediéndole el remedio solicitado en la demanda sin más citarle ni oirle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico. Sala de San Juan, a 6 de octubre de 2025. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. PURA M. ROMAN MORALES, SECRETARIA SERVICIOS A SALA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ LADIMIL ANDUJAR CAMACHO Y OTROS
EX PARTE
Civil Núm.: MZ2025CV01535. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. CITACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS.
Por la presente se le cita a fin de que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho sobre la siguiente finca: UNO - RÚSTICA:
Parcela de terreno compuesta de UNA CUERDA Y TREINTA Y DOS CÉNTIMOS, equivalentes a cincuenta y una áreas, ochenta y ocho centiáreas y doce miliáreas, sita en el barrio de Llanos Tuna, término municipal de Cabo Rojo; colinda por el NORTE, con un camino servidumbre; por el ESTE, con terrenos de Carlos E. Torres Pagán, antes, hoy Eloísa Ferrer viuda de Ramírez, o sea, la finca letra “A”; por el SUR, con terrenos de Radamés Ramírez Ferrer; terrenos de José Antonio Díaz Torres; y en parte con terrenos de Pedro Camacho, y los de Eladio Zapata, antes, hoy de Antonio Díaz Torres. Número de Catastro 356-069253-48-000. DOS - “RÚSTICA”: Parcela de terreno compuesta de UNA CUERDA Y VEINTICINCO CÉNTIMOS, equivalentes a cuarenta nueve áreas y trece centiáreas; sita en el barrio Llanos Tuna, término municipal de Cabo Rojo; y colinda, por el NORTE, con un ca-
mino vecinal, por el ESTE, con terrenos de la Sucesión de María América Díaz Torres; por el SUR, con terrenos de Radamés Ramírez Ferrer; y por el OESTE. Con terrenos de Carlos E. Torres Pagán, antes, hoy Eloísa Ferrer Viuda de Ramírez, ósea la Finca letra “B”. Número de Catastro 356-069-253-48-000. TRES -“RÚSTICA”: Porción de terreno compuesta de UNA CUERDA, equivalentes a treinta y nueve áreas y cuarenta miliáreas, radicada en el Barrio Llanos Tuna, término municipal de Cabo Rojo, y colinda; por el Norte con terrenos de Leona Padilla y otros de José Díaz; por el Este, con don José Díaz; por el SUD, con terrenos de Jacobo Cabassa y otros de Virginio Cruz y por el Oeste con camino vecinal. Tendrán un plazo improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, los interesados y/o las partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados, podrán comparecer ante el tribunal, a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la contestación de ésta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogado el Lcdo. Saúl Zapata Ripolls a PO Box 6086. Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 0681, teléfono 787-450-5850 a fin de alegar lo que en derecho proceda. Extendido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 7 de octubre de 2025. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. EVELYN GONZÁLEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN COMMERCIAL EQUIPMENT
FINANCE, INC.
Demandante V. ALUMAX, INC., Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SS2024CV00826. (Salón: 0002 DISTRITO Y SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FASJCFORTUNO@FORTUNO-LAW. COM.
A: FRANK JOEL
JIMENEZ CRUZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de octubre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia,
Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de octubre de 2025. En San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, el 21 de octubre de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. JESSICA MÉNDEZ ROMERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN EDNA AMPARO RIVERA VARGAS; INGRID ENID DEL CARMEN RIVERA VARGAS; WILLIAM A RIVERA MUÑIZ; MARTHA LIAÑO RIVERA; RICHARD RIVERA MUÑIZ; DENISE INOVA RIVERA MUÑIZ; FRANCISCO JOSE LIAÑO RIVERA; CARMEN DENISE LIAÑO RIVERA
Demandante Vs. FRANCIS RIVERA MUÑIZ; FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD DE BIENES GANACIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2025CV04991. Sala: 505. Sobre: DIVISIÓN DE COMUNIDAD HEREDITARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE UU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. A: FRANCIS RIVERA MUÑIZ CON DIRECCIÓN EN EL 9029 FLORIDA AVENUE, FLORAL CITY, FLORIDA, 34436. Los demandantes de epígrafe, han presentado ante este Tribunal demanda contra usted, a través del Lcdo. José Luis Novas-Debién, RUA: 11257, con dirección en el P.O. Box 193021, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919 Tel. 787-754-8300, y dirección electrónica jnovas1@ gmail.com solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: Que se ordene y decrete por sentencia la división de la comunidad
hereditaria existente entre las partes, compuesta por el bien inmueble sito en la manzana C, solar 18, de la urbanización Park Side, ubicada en el barrio Pueblo Viejo, de Guaynabo, ordenándose la consumación del contrato de compraventa suscrito por los demandantes que se describe en la demanda mediante el otorgamiento de la correspondiente escritura de compraventa, junto a cualquier otro pronunciamiento que en derecho corresponda. A solicitud de la parte demandante, el Tribunal ha ordenado el emplazamiento por edicto de la parte demandada; en cumplimiento de dicha orden se ha ordenado su emplazamiento por medio de este edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico. Usted deberá 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 le apercibe que si no comparece usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de 30 días a partir de la publicación del edicto, podrá dictarse sentencia en rebeldía en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 1 de octubre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. KEISHLA M. SANTIAGO CRUZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN CARLOS ULISES CHACÓN MARTÍNEZ
Demandante Vs. EDUARDO RIVERA SANTIAGO; FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD DE BIENES GANACIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; JORGE CASTILLO CABRERA; FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD DE BIENES GANACIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; FULANO DE TAL; MENGANA DE TAL; COMPAÑÍA
ASEGURADORA A,B,C
Demandados
Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV07719. Sobre: DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE UU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS.
A: JORGE CASTILLO CABRERA, CON
DIRECCIÓN EN URB. SANTA ELVIRA, H-9, CALLE SANTA RITA, CAGUAS PR, 00725. Carlos Ulises Chacón Martínez, ha presentado ante este Tribunal demanda contra usted, a través del Lcdo. José Luis Novas-Debién, RUA: 11257, con dirección en el P.O.Box 193021, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919 Tel. 787-754-8300, solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: Que se condene a la parte demandada al pago de una cantidad no menor de CIENTO DIEZ MIL DOLARES ($110,000.00) más costas, gastos y una suma razonable en concepto de honorarios de abogado. A solicitud de la parte demandante, el Tribunal ha ordenado el emplazamiento por edicto de la parte demandada; en cumplimiento de dicha orden se ha ordenado su emplazamiento por medio de este edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico. Usted deberá 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 le apercibe que si no comparece usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de 30 días a partir de la publicación del edicto, podrá dictarse sentencia en rebeldía en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 8 de octubre de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ADELLE RIVERA APONTE, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN VACATION OWNERSHIP LENDING, L.P.
Demandante Vs. FULANO DE TAL
Demandado
Civil Núm.: VA2025CV00178. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. A: FULANO DE TAL:
Se notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la Demanda de epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere para que, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto (a) radique en este Tribunal la contestación a la Demanda y (b) notifique copia de la misma al Lcdo. José Luis Novas Debién, RUA 11257 PO Box 193021, San Juan PR 00919-3021, cuyo teléfono es
el (787) 754-8300, y dirección electrónica: jnovas1@gmail. com. Si dejara de hacerlo podrá dictarse sentencia en rebeldía concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. El pagaré cuya cancelación se solicita en la Demanda está garantizado con hipoteca sobre el siguiente inmueble: VACATION CLUB RIGHT: UNIT WEEK EIGHTEEN (18). Vacation Club Right corresponding to Unit B dash Seven Hundred Eight (B-708) of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B dash Seven Hundred Eight (B-708) and includes the right to use such Unit during the eighteenth (18th) week of each year until December thirty-one (31) of the year two thousand and seventy (2070), such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the eighteenth (18th) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B dash Seven Hundred Eight (B-708), the use of said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to which this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime . This vacation club right has been assigned a share of one fifty-two hundredth (1/52) of one point two one nine four percent (1.2194%) in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Inscrita al folio móvil de Vega Alta, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Bayamón, Sección de tercera (III) (en adelante el “Registro”), Finca número 18,065, inscripción primera. Expedido bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico a 15 de septiembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SUBSECRETARIA.
Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.
Sudoku Rules:
Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
base
70. Fired up
71. Difficult obligation
72. Wonky
1. Singer Anthony
2. Over, in Hanover
3. Apartment mgr.
4. Small apartment
5. Surprised cries
6. Cause of rage, briefly
7. Old Chinese dynasty
8. Big kahuna
9. Time, in short
10. "___ my brother's keeper?"
11. The Macarena, i.e.
12. Archer's goal (abbr.)
13. Baseball bat wood
18. Comes into view
22. Neighbor of Gre.
24. "Move it!"
26. Modest response to a compliment
27. Become extinct
28. Bakery fixtures
29. Splits apart
30. Early Tears for Fears song
31. "Old Macdonald" coda
32. Be worthy of
33. Flintlike rock
34. Murphy of old films
38. "My Kind of Town" lyricist
40. Ghim ___ (district in Singapore)
41. Neighbor of Nor.
44. Like church glass
46. Uplift spiritually
49. Belonging to a biblical king, say
50. Edith ___ (author of children's books)
51. 1998 Masters champion Mark
55. "____ Tramp" (Peggy Lee song in "Lady and the Tramp")
56. Oval-leafed trees
58. Garbage-transporting vessel
59. Two before Sat.
60. Provocative
61. Merit badge org.
62. Bit of resistance
63. Doo-___ music
64. Night before
66. Albanian money unit
Kaela Hilaire had 21 points and 12 assists to lead the Atenienses of Manatí over the Cangrejeras of Santurce in the BSNF semifinals A series opener.
By THE STAR STAFF
The Atenienses of Manatí defeated the Cangrejeras of Santurce 92-84 on Saturday night at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in Hato Rey in the opening game of the Women’s National Superior Basketball (BSNF by its initials in Spanish) Championship semifinal A series.
Point guard Kaela Hilaire led the way for Manatí with 21 points and 12 assists, followed by Chelsea Mitchell with 20 points, Pamela Rosado with 19 points and 10 assists, Kiki Jefferson with 14 points, and India Pagán with 12.
Shae Kelley led Santurce with 22 points and 14 rebounds, while Dayshalee Salamán contributed 15 points and 12 assists. In addition, Nairimar Vargas scored 12 points, Kamaria McDaniel and Becca Tobin added 11
points each, and Brianna Jones chipped in with 10 points. Hilaire capped an 8-0 run as the Atenienses took the lead 62-59 with 3:06 left in the third quarter. Manatí extended the advantage to 72-64 after three periods.
Although Santurce closed to within a point, 72-71, on a basket by Kelley in the final quarter, Mitchell responded with seven-straight points as the Atenienses rebuilt the lead to 79-71 with 5:32 left.
The Cangrejeras had closed the first half ahead, 5347, but were unable to contain the visitors’ push in the second half.
The second game of the best-of-5 series will take place tonight at Juan A. Cruz Abreu Coliseum in Manatí.
In the B semifinal series, the Explosivas of Moca were looking to take a 2-0 lead against the host Pollitas of Isabela on Sunday night after a decisive 89-61 victory in the opener at home on Friday.
By THE STAR STAFF
The Vaqueras of Bayamón and Las de la Mancha of Corozal notched victories on Saturday night in Puerto Rican Volleyball Confederation (COPUVO by its acronym in Spanish) play.
The Vaqueras needed a decisive fifth set to defeat the Llaneras of Toa Baja at José “Pepín” Cestero Court in Bayamón. Bayamón won the first two sets by scores of 25-23 and 2517, but the Llaneras responded, winning the next two sets 25-23 and 26-24 to even the score and force a fifth set.
The Vaqueras closed out the match in the decider, 15-10, to remain in sixth place in the standings with a 5-4 record and 16 points. Toa Baja, meanwhile, was officially eliminated from postseason contention after dropping to 0-11 with just one ac-
cumulated point.
Yaliancis Flores was the standout performer for Bayamón, leading her team in key moments of the match, while Laia Jaca shone for the Llaneras.
In the day’s other match, held at Howard T. Jason Court in Corozal, Las de la Mancha also needed five sets to defeat Las Bravas of Cidra by scores of 20-25, 25-23, 19-25, 27-25 and 15-11.
Corozal’s Valeria Otero was named the match’s most outstanding player, while Ana Sofía Jusino, recently acquired in a trade from Las Criollas of Caguas for Jonnalys Matos, excelled for Cidra with a strong performance in her debut.
Las de la Mancha improved to 3-7 with nine points, placing them alone in seventh place. Las Bravas, meanwhile, held on to third place with a 7-4 record and 26 points.
Ezequiel Pagán, who plays in Double-A in the Los Angeles Dodgers system, is one of four outfielders on the Team Puerto Rico roster.
By THE STAR STAFF
The Puerto Rico Baseball Federation (FBPR by its initials in Spanish) announced over the weekend the 27 players who will make up the men’s national team that will participate in the first edition of the Baseball Copa América, Nov. 13-22 in Panama.
The event will feature 12 teams divided into two groups and will determine qualifying spots for the 2026 Central American & Caribbean Games and the 2027 Pan American Games.
Team Puerto Rico is coached by Juan “Igor” González. He will be joined on the coaching staff by Edgar Pérez as bench coach, Dennis Pérez at third base, Eddie González at first base, Richard Burgos as infield coach, Javier Vázquez in charge of the pitchers, and Carlos Berdiel as bullpen coach.
Team Puerto Rico is made up of 22 players who played this year in the Double-A Superior Baseball League, along with college and minor league players. The roster of 13 position players and 14 pitchers includes former major leaguers Yadiel Rivera and Jesmuel Valentín, both infielders. Also on the roster are outfielder Ezequiel Pagán and catchers Onix Vega and Samuel Hernández, who are active in the minor leagues.
Vega is a member of the New York Mets system in Triple-A, Hernández is a member of the St. Louis Cardinals in Double-A, and Pagán plays in the Los Angeles Dodgers system in Double-A .
Also of note are outfielder Edgardo Villegas and lefthanded pitcher Jorhan Laboy, who have posted outstanding performances in World Cups and Pre-World Cups in the U-23 category.
Villegas, a student at the University of Tampa, was named Most Valuable Player and batting champion at the 2024 U-23 Baseball World Cup. Laboy, meanwhile, is a student at the University of Alabama and was the most outstanding pitcher at the 2025 U-23 Pre-World Cup. The roster also includes Luis Leroy Cruz, winner of the
2025 Pitcher of the Year award in Puerto Rico’s Double-A Superior Baseball League with the Pescadores del Plata of Comerío. Also highlighted is Rubén Castro, who was the batting champion and Most Valuable Player of the Double-A League in the 2022 and 2024 seasons.
Puerto Rico, currently fourth in the rankings in the Americas, will be in Group B along with Panama, Colombia, Canada, Brazil and Argentina. Their opener will be on Nov. 13 against Argentina at Mariano Rivera Stadium in Panama.
The full roster for the national team:
PITCHERS: Luis Leroy Cruz, Héctor Hernández, Joshua Torres, Josué Serrano, Marvin Gorgas, Bryant Salgado, José Cruz Molina, Rubén Ramírez, Gabriel Rodríguez, Jerryell Rivera, Miguel Ausúa, Jorhan Laboy, Sidney Duprey and Joel Huertas.
CATCHERS: Onix Vega and Samuel Hernández.
OUTFIELDERS: Edgardo Villegas, Rubén Castro, Ezequiel Pagán and Jan Hernández.
INFIELDERS: Yadiel Rivera, Jesmuel Valentín, Alexis Pantoja, Emmanuel “Manny” García, Kenen Irizarry, Luis González and Melvin Ortiz.
MLB Playoffs World Series (Best-of-7)
Friday’s Game 1
Toronto Blue Jays 11, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Saturday’s Game 2
Dodgers 5, Blue Jays 1
Game 3 (series tied 1-1)
Today
(All times Eastern)
Blue Jays at Dodgers, 8 p.m. (FOX)
Game 4
Tuesday
Blue Jays at Dodgers, 8 p.m. (FOX)
Game 5
Wednesday
Blue Jays at Dodgers, 8 p.m. (FOX)
Game 6 (if necessary)
Friday Dodgers at Blue Jays, 8 p.m. (FOX)
Game 7 (if necessary)
Saturday Dodgers at Blue Jays, 8 p.m. (FOX)
Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 21
