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Monday, October 27, 2014

Puerto Rico News Digest For October 27, 2014

POLICE SEARCH FOR MISSING AIBONITO WOMAN



Police are investigating the disappearance of 36 year
old Aibonito resident Jacqueline Meléndez Díaz, who has
been missing for five days, according to El Nuevo Dia.
Díaz is the mother of two boys who did not live with
her, and was about to move to Pennsylvania to start a 
new life with her partner, Israel Martínez Rosario. 
The woman disappeared from her house on Thursday, and
police have stated that there were no signs of  forced
entry into the house. A friend and neighbor said that
Díaz was excited to leave for the continent, and had 
recently received some severance money from a job she
had just left. 


EPIDEMIOLOGIST WEIGHS IN ON VA EBOLA PLAN


Brenda Rivera García, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico's
epidemiologist, assured the public on Sunday that the
island's Veteran's Hospital will not become an ebola
treatment center for U.S. soldiers who become infected 
with the virus, since treatment at U.S. military facilities
in Germany would make more sense. Noticel reported this
past Friday that the VA Hospital was setting up three
isolation areas for ebola patients, which aroused 
suspicions that some of the 3,000 American troops that 
are being sent to West Africa to combat ebola could be 
brought in for treatement there.  

BAHIA URBANA TO CLOSE 2014 WITH EVENTS



"Bahía Urbana, a mixed-use entertainment venue in the San 
Juan Bay area, will close 2014 with more than 100 events 
between box office and free events for the community, and 
an estimated 250,000 attendees, General Manager Linnette 
Isona said..."


35,000 FEWER PEOPLE WORKING IN SEPT.




"The Puerto Rico Labor Department said Wednesday there 
were 981,000 people employed on the island in September, 
35,000 fewer workers than registered in the same month 
a year ago and 7,000 fewer than in August..."



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