Sentence examples for A vieques from inspiring English sources
"A Vieques where people live in peace and love, developing themselves to earn their daily bread".
Getting to Vieques was easy: a nonstop flight from Newark to San Juan International Airport, where we changed for a Vieques Air Link puddle-jumper.
On its return, the plane brought Andy Ramos, 36, a Vieques police officer fighting advanced lung cancer.
Now, two years after a Vieques civilian security guard named David Sanes Rodriguez died in the explosions of two misguided bombs, it looks like Vieques will finally be rid of the U.S. military--by 2003, or sooner, depending on the outcome of a referendum today.
John Hix, an architect from Canada, is providing an example of what a renewed Vieques could look like: spare, environmentally sensitive buildings of concrete, equipped with wooden shutters or overhead steel security doors.
Arranged above the bed are Mr. Nesmith's photographs of Florence (the Duomo), Paris (a market) and Vieques (an oddly cute iguana) — memories of the couple's travels.
"As we lift this flag, we lift our souls, our faith, our hope for a better Vieques without the Navy," he said.
It's a testament to the island's natural beauty, with its white-sand beaches, coral reefs and bioluminescent bay. 4 p.m. 1) LIFE'S A BEACH Vieques has spent the last year improving many of its beaches; access to some were in shambles when the Navy left.
As a result, Vieques avoided the polluted runoff and sediment from land-based development that have seriously damaged reefs elsewhere in the Caribbean.
The agreement provides passengers with more nonstop service between San Juan and Dominica; Fort-de-France, Martinique; Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe; Vieques, Puerto Rico; and Virgin Gorda and Tortola in the British Virgin Islands.
The federal authorities completed preparations today to clear demonstrators later this week from a Navy range on Vieques, a small island off Puerto Rico, even as F.B.I. officials continued to express misgivings about the operation they will lead.
