More than two months after Hurricane María struck Puerto Rico, thousands of local residents remain without drinking water or electricity.
Representatives from Puerto Rico’s private sector agreed Monday to back Gov. Ricardo Rosselló’s urgent call to Congress to treat the island as a U.S. — not foreign — jurisdiction in the federal tax reform currently being discussed.
As Puerto Rico begins to transition from the response phase to recovery, Michael Byrne, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s coordinating officer for Puerto Rico, said the process moving forward will include an “unbelievable amount of common sense” and experience from prior disasters to rebuild the island.
The MCS Foundation announced that YMCA of the USA has raised $200,000, which the nonprofit’s creator, Medical Card Systems Inc., will match dollar-for-dollar to support disaster relief efforts to help individuals, families and the communities served through the YMCAs in Puerto Rico.
Pedro Fábregas, president of Dallas, TX-based Envoy, was chosen for the third year in a row as one of Dallas-Fort Worth’s top leaders in “D CEO” Magazine’s 2018 Dallas 500 special edition, honoring the most powerful business leaders in the area.
Puerto Rico-based Business Continuity Professionals (BCP) has been rewarded internationally for its excellence and innovation in business continuity services, the company confirmed.
Following an allocation of $8.7 million in federal funds disbursed by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority (ACT, per its Spanish acronym) will repair the traffic lights at 720 intersections affected by Hurricane María.
Aerostar Airport Holdings, operator of San Juan’s Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, is breaking ground on a new $7 million warehouse and office building complex that will become the hub for Federal Express in Puerto Rico, this media outlet has learned.
Fluor Corp. will host an open house Nov. 30 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at its Guaynabo headquarters, for which it is inviting the community to learn more about efforts to help restore power to Puerto Rico.
Hurricanes Irma and María — which clobbered Puerto Rico back-to-back in September — revealed the island’s broken infrastructure, but created a second chance to rebuild, an analysis by economic research firm H. Calero Consulting concluded.
After Hurricane María devastated vast portions of Puerto Rico, businesses and industry in local communities began coordinating with the government of Puerto Rico, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other federal agencies to fast-track efforts to revitalize and stimulate commerce on the island, the federal government entity said.
Service is an honor. It’s also an opportunity to effect change, to make progress, to develop possibilities. That’s why I’m so pleased to have joined the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE).
Puerto Rican shoe store chain Novus recently opened its first store in Orlando, Florida, located at the central atrium of the Florida Mall.
Insurance credit agency A.M. Best has revised the outlook to negative from stable for the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of B++ (Good) and the Long-Term ICR of “bbb+” of Puerto Rioc’s Trans-Oceanic Life Insurance Company. The outlook of the FSR remains stable.
Holidays can bring about stress any year, but hurricanes add a whole new level of uncertainty and frustration.
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