DOMINICA: Gov't grants company 10-year license to export billions of gallons of drinking water SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The lush but poor Caribbean island of Dominica will allow an export company to ship billions of gallons of its river water to parched countries around the globe, officials said Saturday. Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit's Cabinet signed a deal ...

A U.S. agency has overturned its 2003 research that said no health hazards were caused by decades of military exercises on Vieques, a bombing range-turned-tourist destination off Puerto Rico's east coast. The federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry said Friday ...

The headaches began just after Hermogenes Marrero arrived on Vieques, the small Puerto Rican island where the young U.S. Marine guarded stores of Cold War-era chemical weapons. The retired sergeant, now 57 and terminally ill with cancer and other ailments, blames exposure to toxins released while he was stationed there from 1970 to 1972. By coming forward to support ...