RIVERA SCHATZ TO ANNOUNCE RUN ON TUESDAY
From The San Juan Daily Star:
"New Progressive Party (NPP) Sen. Thomas Rivera Schatz will make
a televised announcement about his political future on Tuesday. The
announcement was confirmed by his press spokeswoman, Wanda Na-
zario, who declined to confirm whether he will run for governor. “As
you know, neither the senator nor I are answering that if there is an
announcement Tuesday,” she told the STAR. Sources, however, say
Rivera Schatz, who is known as the “White Shark,” will announce his
bid for governor. The announcement will air on WAPA television..."
GOVERNMENT TO PAY CHRISTMAS BONUS
From News Is My Business:
"With an estimated $700 million in the Government Development Bank’s
coffers and a Treasury Department that reported $488.6 million in revenue
collections in November, Gov. Alejandro García-Padilla announced Sun-
day public sector employees will receive their Christmas bonuses, as esta-
blished by law. The payment represents a disbursement of $120million,
and will be made within three days, through Tuesday. The compensation
required by Law 34 of 1969, was due by Dec. 20 and the administration
made the announcement a few hours before the deadline expired..."
SEN. ROSA TO RUN FOR RESIDENT COMMISSIONER
From Caribbean Business:
With the certainty that his candidacy is something new in the political
arena, Sen. Ángel Rosa of the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) has offi-
cially filed his candidacy for resident commissioner in Washington, D.C.,
for the 2016 general election. While formalizing his candidacy at PDP
headquarters in San Juan, the legislator and political analyst said his de-
cision is due to the fact that honest and capable officials are needed that
do not only offer the people someone to cheer for during the campaign
period..."
MISS PR SUSPENDED OVER MUSLIM COMMENTS
From CNN:
Miss Puerto Rico 2015 has been suspended indefinitely for posting a se-
ries of anti-Muslim messages on Twitter. Destiny Velez tweeted filmmaker
Michael Moore last week after he launched a campaign that encouraged peo-
ple to make signs saying "We are all Muslim" and post photographs of them-
selves holding the signs online. Her Twitter page has since been taken down,
and Velez has apologized. CNN obtained a screen grab of the page, and am-
ong the messages she originally sent were: "Muslims use our constitution to
terrorize USA & plant gas stations," "there's NO comparison between Jews,
Christians & Muslims. Jews nor Christians have terrorizing agendas in their
sacred books, and "all what Muslims have done is provided oil & terrorize
this country & many others!!!!!!..."
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