Do tourists want to enter Vieques y Culebra in Semana Santa?

When only a few weeks remain for the week of the Semana Santa, the Alcaldes of Vieques and of Culebra, José A. Corcino and Edilberto Romero, respectively the Maritime Transport Authority (ATM) embarks to prevent residents from leaving their homes.

Desde ayer, lunes, la orden ejecutiva del gobernador Pedro Pierluisi to await the emergence of COVID-19 allows the entry of tourists to the municipal islands, per the alcaldes lo habían restricted to the sale diaria of only 50 bolets of the ATM for each people. Now, we anticipate that this restriction will continue, including during the Santa Week and indefinitely to avoid any problems with maritime transport that are aggravated.

“You are no longer a journey. The voyage is limited because if it is open, the residents will have to wait for the summit. Voy a estar asi hasta que no se solva solem the problem of ATM ”, dijo Romero.

The Alcalde de Vieques, for its part, dijo that if abría of par in par la isla al tourism tourism quedarse sin suficientes suministros.

Well, municipal executives are reconciling that they have no control over the tourists who lie in their private shelters or through the area.

“I see that I’ve been stealing in my hands, but I’m not here,” said Romero.

Prevention that can control the entry of tourists in Semana Santa, Culebra’s Alcalde dijo who solicited the most official of the Police and most effective of the Maritime Division of the Department of Natural and Ambient Resources.

“Voy took the determination to be more proactive in order not to be sold on the manos”, Romero points out.

Tanto Vieques como Culebra llevan dos semanas con problems in the service of maritime transport, an asunto that is not new, but that has been aggravated because the ATM only has a hub available for the transport of the cargo. In this scenario, Pierluisi declared a state of emergency for the municipal islands and activates the Guardia Nacional for the transport of Suministros to Vieques and Culebra. The Governor accepts the meeting of the Director of the ATM, Mara Pérez.