NOW: Puerto Rico Governors says he recognizes the lack of services provided to the people of Culebra & Vieques because of the joke that is the ferry service, an unreliable/unpredictable/unacceptable public service failure. The governor can fix this years long problem. Let’s hope
To be clear: the Governor didn’t create this problem. This has been going on for decades. But this Governor can fix it. The fix may lead to privatization. It may not. The fix may involve much higher ferry prices. It’s may not. Bottom line: the status quo is unacceptable to people
Ferry service has also been canceled to Vieques after protesters did the same thing, block the boat from arriving
Tourists, if you’re going to go to Puerto Rico you must wear a mask. @WapaTV reports this 18yo man from Colorado didn’t. Police repeatedly asked him to get out of the street. He appears to taunt them. They tased & arrested him as the crowd clapped.
📷: Frances Rodríguez/ Facebook
Per @ElNuevoDia: the prosecutor wanted to charge the suspect with obstruction & violation of the executive order, “but Judge Iliana Blanco did not determine cause since, being in an alleged state of intoxication, he did not understand the police commands.” elnuevodia.com/noticias/segur…
Lots of empty Senate seats in Puerto Rico today for the 2nd day of hearings into a possible ban on conversion therapy - which doesn’t work and is harmful to human beings, according to ever major medical organization.
📷: @ajvalentincama
This was Wednesday’s hearing
Most all of these witnesses are testifying against conversion therapy and telling horror stores of what enduring it and most of the Senators can’t even show up.
I can’t get enough of this.
Yes ma’am!
Good afternoon!
Btw: she is Marcia Fudge, the secretary of housing and urban development. Y’all know she’s gonna run a tight ship. @RepMarciaFudge
You know what made me fall out screaming when I saw this, her eyes and she looked at them. Her eyes were talking while her mouth was talking too, saying, Hell yes y’all gonna say hello.
VIDEO: there’s been a reported explosion in Ontario California due to “fireworks”.
You see a huge smoke plume.
You hear explosions.
Homes across the area shook.
Some are damaged, according to @ABC7
Inbox: “Mr. Begnaud, my name is Nancy Torres and I live and work in Puerto Rico. For years we have received tourists from the USA with open arms. But the current situation in the entire Metro Area is unsustainable. A new class of tourists are coming to our Island and...”
“...behaving in the worst possible way. There are fights almost everyday. They show no respect for the locals and treat servers in restaurant like garbage. They feel like there are no laws here and they are allowed as they please...”
“...I am contacting you because there is a storm brewing. We are very hospitable, humble people, but the world have seen what we are capable when we say ENOUGH! It’s time to address this matter for everyone’s sake...”
Public hearings will begin next week in Puerto Rico about a bill in the Senate to ban conversion therapy forever. Presently, conversion therapy is banned by an executive order signed by fmr. Gov @ricardorossello. Here’s what leading medical associations says about that therapy👇🏻
The American Academy of child and adolescent psychiatry finds “no evidence to support the application of any “therapeutic intervention” operating under the premise that a specific sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression is pathological...”
“...Furthermore, based on scientific evidence, the AACAP asserts that such “conversion therapies” (or other interventions imposed with the intent of promoting a particular sexual orientation and/or gender as a preferred outcome) lack scientific credibility & clinical utility...”