By IndyKids Staff In late January this year, Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló announced that he planned to sell the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) to private companies. Even though PREPA is the largest public utility company in the US, serving 3.3 million people, the power grid is 45 years old and badly …
By Abiyana E. Moore, Age 8 The island of Puerto Rico was struck by a category 4 hurricane in September of 2017, which destroyed the country’s power grid and left the 90% of the population without electricity. Four months later, one-third of the island is still without electricity. The old system relied on importing …
Find out about Gabriel, age 11, from the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico.
On August 8, Judge Sonia Sotomayor became the first Latino ever to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.
A collection of 12 emotional and honest stories about Puerto Rican youth is found in An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio, written by Judith Ortiz Cofer.
