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January 2 – Pedro Pierluisi, 61, is sworn in as the new governor.[1]
January 5 – PresidentDonald Trump announces $3.7 billion to rebuild water infrastructure. The grant covers 90% of the estimated costs of the water and wastewater improvement projects.[2]
January 24 – Governor Pedro Pierluisi declares astate of emergency overgender violence. The island saw 62 cases offemicide in 2020 and violence against members of the LGBTQ community.[3]
February 1 – PresidentJoe Biden signs an order providing $6.2 billion to Puerto Rico for disaster mitigation.[4]
February 2 – The Health Department announces that for the next 28 days theCOVID-19 vaccine will be exclusively for adults 65 years of age and older.[5]
February 23 – Governor Pedro Pierluisi rejects a proposed debt settlement because of concerns about the effect on the territory′s pension system.[6]
February 24 – A box containing 31 doses ofCOVID-19 vaccine is found on a street inMorovis. The vaccines had spoiled. Puerto Rico has reported at least 91,834 cases and 2,007 deaths from the virus.[7]
March 12 –San Juan′s San José Church prepares for reopening after being closed in 1996 for restoration and repairs. The second-oldest church on the island, which was built in 1532 near the ocean on top of aTaíno settlement at the highest point of Old San Juan, was originally aDominican convent whereBartolomé de las Casas lived.[8]
†Physiographically, thesecontinental islands are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically.
#Bermuda is an isolatedNorth Atlanticoceanic island, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. It is grouped with theNorthern American region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally.
