MasTec North America Inc., a FL-based infrastructure construction company, is suing Claro Puerto Rico for $10 million in outstanding pay for the work it did to restore the telecommunications provider’s “devastated” infrastructure following Hurricane María in 2017. In a lawsuit filed last week in the US District Court of Puerto Rico in San Juan, the […]
Due to the passage of the American Rescue Plan, Puerto Rico has received $35.4 million for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) available this fiscal year, which runs through September 2022. As part of a state-by-state breakdown of funding, the White House reported that in addition to an annual appropriation of $15.2 million for […]
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi has appointed Gabriel Maldonado-González as Puerto Rico’s new Department of Labor and Human Resources secretary, filling the vacancy left by his predecessor, Carlos Santiago, who stepped down Dec. 31. Maldonado has extensive government and private sector experience, as well as in the field of labor law, both in the state and federal […]
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