Metropistas, the consortium of companies that is now running PR-22 and PR-5, will use the public-private partnership agreement established with the government as the model to possibly secure similar deals in the U.S. mainland, company officials said Monday.
Representatives from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis will visit Puerto Rico later this month as part of ongoing efforts to steer the island toward improving methods of collecting and producing high-quality statistics about local economic activity.
A week after accepting applications from 1,650 homeowners looking to save their dwellings from foreclosure, Gov. Luis Fortuño announced Tuesday there will be a third round of government assistance to benefit another 1,500 families.