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March 10 – 2024 Puerto Rico Republican presidential primary [2] April 3 – The United States Army Corps of Engineers begins dredging the San Juan Bay to open space for a new natural gas terminal that is expected to add $400 million to the local economy. [3] 5 May – Rains occur in Puerto Rico, where planes are landed in San Juan to reroute ...
Puerto Rico celebrates all official U.S. holidays, [1] and other official holidays established by the Commonwealth government. Additionally, many municipalities celebrate their own Patron Saint Festivals (fiestas patronales in Spanish), as well as festivals honoring cultural icons like bomba y plena, danza, salsa, hamacas (hammocks), and popular crops such as plantains and coffee.
Fiestas patronales in Puerto Rico are yearly celebrations held in each municipality of the island. Like in other countries, " fiestas patronales " are heavily influenced by Spanish culture and religion, and are dedicated to a saint or the Blessed Virgin Mary under one of her titles.
Jehovah-jireh in King James Bible 1853 Genesis 22:14. In the Masoretic Text, the name is יְהוָה יִרְאֶה (yhwh yirʾeh).The first word of the phrase is the Tetragrammaton (יהוה), YHWH, the most common name of God in the Hebrew Bible, which is usually given the pronunciation Yahweh in scholarly works. [1]
The department is an executive department of the Government of Puerto Rico. It was created in 1931 but only gained formal recognition when the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico was approved in 1952. Its first secretary was Prudencio Rivera. The incumbent is Carlos Saavedra Gutiérrez.
The Free Federation of Workers (Spanish: Federación Libre de Trabajadores, FLT) was a union federation in Puerto Rico. It was founded in 1899 and initially led by Santiago Iglesias Pantín . Its political arm became the Socialist Party , founded in 1915.
Sign from former headquarters of the El Día newspaper, while on Calle Salud, Ponce (1945–1970), now on display at Museo de la Historia de Ponce El Nuevo Día was founded in 1909 in the city of Ponce as "El Diario de Puerto Rico," [a] later changing its name to "El Día" in 1911, a name it kept for nearly seven decades.
Carlos José Saavedra-Gutiérrez (born July 1, 1986) is a Puerto Rican lawyer and current counsel at Jackson Lewis.Saavedra served in several high profile positions within the Government of Puerto Rico, including Secretary of Labor and Human Resources.