Sentence examples for vieques from inspiring English sources

For decades, the American navy used Vieques as a bombing range.

So training will go on as planned, with a ten-day naval exercise starting on August 2nd.Most of the people who live on Vieques claim this is bad for the island's environment, and for their own health.

This year's federal budget includes a $40m aid package for Vieques, but for many residents this is too little, too late.In June, George Bush said that the navy would cease fire, and leave Vieques in 2003.

Earlier this year, members of the Hispanic caucus in Congress asked the secretary of the navy to release detailed records of all the substances used on and around Vieques.

If Vieques will not allow it to practise, somewhere else will have to.

IT IS now official: the people of Vieques do not like the American navy.

The 9,400 residents are wedged on a narrow strip of land across the middle of Vieques.

Bif Browning, an environmental investigator who has spent six years on Vieques for Eaves, insists that the navy used depleted uranium and even napalm on the island, and claims hair tests on residents show toxic levels of mercury, arsenic, lead, cadmium and aluminium.So far, the navy has not accepted responsibility, insisting there is no proof it harmed residents.

Only $4.3m has been spent so far on decontaminating a former munitions storage depot on the west end of Vieques.

The W Retreat & Spa-Vieques Island — a low-rise compound with 157 rooms and Alain Ducasse's first culinary outpost in the Caribbean, all on the island eight miles off the coast of Puerto Rico known for its beautiful, empty beaches — won't officially open until April 1.

Now the W Retreat & Spa-Vieques Island has a partnership with the  same-sex wedding specialist Bernadette Coveney Smith, founder of the planning service 14 Stories, to offer destination wedding ceremonies for same-sex couples at the oceanfront resort on the Puerto Rican island.