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Engineer Rodríguez to be sworn in Feb. 3, and proposes President Biden issue an order aimed at helping create some 20,000 jobs in Puerto Rico.
The nitial obligation has been allocated to the Puerto Rico Public Buildings Administration.
Nearly half of the allocation is for 488 permanent construction projects.
Two years after the string of earthquakes that hit Puerto Rico at the end of 2019, the recovery continues with more than $523 million that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has allocated. The funds are distributed among projects in 14 municipalities of the southern, western, and central parts of the island. Among the structures […]
There are currently 168 projects underway to rehabilitate the areas and structures that were affected by the 2020 earthquakes along Puerto Rico’s southern region, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said. Projects include allocations for the municipalities of Mayagüez and Ponce. About $185,000 from the agency are earmarked to repair the Castilo Serralés, the Salazar […]
New York government officials teamed up with nonprofit organization Somos Inc. to deliver aid supplies to residents in Peñuelas and Yauco affected by the 2020 earthquakes. On April 22nd, Assemblywoman Maritza Dávila, chairwoman of the New York State Puerto Rican/Hispanic Taskforce, along with Somos Inc. nonprofit Chairman Francisco Díaz and the New York State Office […]
The American Red Cross Puerto Rico Chapter, along with Esperanza para la Vejez, Sage Puerto Rico, Cooperativa de Farmacias Puertorriqueñas (COOPharma) and the Coordinadora Paz para la Mujer is kicking off its long-term recovery program for the southwest municipalities that were affected by the earthquakes last year. Esperanza para la Vejez and Coopharma will deliver […]
What to do if one is terrified, bordering on a phobia of earthquakes? Well, find places in the world that never tremble. They are geographic regions where there are no unstable tectonic plates, or that may not rest over geological faults. Countries with good footing, as a builder would say. Such havens are identifiable on […]
Six towns affected by the earthquakes that rattled Puerto Rico in January recently got the go-ahead from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to tap into a combined $19 million in Community Disaster Loans (CDL) to rebuild. Guayanilla, Mayagüez, Ponce, Salinas, Santa Isabel and Villalba will be able to tap into the operational funds meant to […]
Learning Undefeated, a nonprofit organization that provides life-changing STEM experiences for under-resourced communities, announced that for the first time it will provide mobile STEM lab resources outside the continental United States. Working in partnership with the Puerto Rico Science, Technology & Research Trust, Learning Undefeated’s will take its MdBioLab to southwestern Puerto Rico, where it […]
The seismic emergency Puerto Rico recently experienced should put the island on alert on the need to ensure food security for the entire population, Denise Santos, president of the Food Bank of Puerto Rico said. The Bank has distributed 150,000 pounds of food to earthquakes victims in the southwest in addition to the 13.4 million […]
Banco Popular announced that, as part of its efforts to help mitigate problems caused by recent seismic events, it will be offering a series of orientations under the JumpStart program, for commercial customers affected in municipalities included in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s emergency declaration. The initiative will be allocating funds for any need that […]
During the emergency caused by Hurricane María in Puerto Rico in 2017, Chilean startup DataScope offered the municipality of Mayagüez its digital platform that uses cell phones to collect data from the population in need of help. DataScope is now making it available to municipalities affected by the earthquake in southwest Puerto Rico and to […]
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