Guayama

[ gwah-yah-mah ]

noun

1. a city in S Puerto Rico.

Example Sentences

Among the new proposed amendments are details of a “green transition stabilization payment” and a plan to convert the Guayama coal plant to green energy, including the location of such projects.

From Seattle Times

AES produces about one-quarter of Puerto Rico’s power via its coal-fired power plant in the southeast coastal town of Guayama.

From Seattle Times

And today, 20 years later, 26 grand, state-of-the-art Kroc centers have opened in places as varied as Ashland, Ohio; Guayama, Puerto Rico; and Quincy, Illinois.

From Seattle Times

Salinas has a higher rate than the neighboring town of Guayama, where cases of cancer and other diseases have increased since the coal-fired power plant began operating there in 2002, said Dr. Gerson Jiménez, director of the Menonite Hospital who has testified in public hearings and called for the closure of the plant.

From Washington Times

“Medical doctors who work in the southeast area of Puerto Rico have noticed that since the AES Corporation began operating in Guayama, there has been a significant increase in diseases of the respiratory tract, urinary tract, as well as a significant increase in diagnoses of various types of cancer,” he testified at one hearing.

From Washington Times