The seven-member Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico is expected to meet sometime next week for the first time since being constituted by President Obama to address the island’s economic crisis, Richard Ravitch, who will represent the Commonwealth’s governor in the body, said Monday.
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority announced Monday the extension of the AlixPartners’ contract to continue the ongoing progress on the comprehensive transformation and debt restructuring of the utility through Dec. 15, 2016, for $6.7 million in fees.
Bonistas del Patio Inc., which groups Puerto Rican bondholders holding about $15 billion in Commonwealth debt, called Gov. Alejandro García-Padilla’s decision to sign a law to restruction the Government Development Bank’s outstanding debt “irresponsible and illegal.”
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