The application and program guidelines are available on the agency’s website.
González, who is also a player in the energy industry, rails at the government process for keeping "the development of Puerto Rico stagnant.”
The organization stresses that women have been greatly affected by natural disasters, COVID-19 and gender violence.
Without Commission action, some of the existing support is scheduled to end starting in June 2023.
Meanwhile, the Puerto Rico government continues its misguided push for natural gas.
“The economy of disasters? Puerto Rico before and after Hurricane María,” present several suggestions for local and federal governments to reduce the negative socioeconomic impact left by natural disasters.
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 […]
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Hunter College a grant of $1.2 million to support scholarly study groups bringing together academics, journalists, and artists from both Puerto Rico and its diaspora at Hunter’s Center for Puerto Rican Studies, the Centro announced. The Centro has a 50-year legacy of interdisciplinary and collaborative research. This new […]
While the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) maintained a fast-paced obligation of funds last year, construction work leads the way toward the revitalization of many communities throughout the island, the agency said. To date, FEMA has allocated more than $25.7 billion in federal funds, of which more than $19 billion are for permanent work. Hundreds of projects […]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced it has approved some $25.6 billion in federal funds for more than 8,000 recovery projects associated with the damages Hurricane María caused in Puerto Rico in 2017. The total projects with funds allocated so far includes debris removal and emergency protection measures granted at the beginning of the […]
The US Government Accountability Office released a report in which it concluded that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) did its part in the restoration work after Hurricane María hit Puerto Rico in 2017, but it must clearly define its disaster response role moving forward. The FCC’s part included gathering network outage information and creating a […]
The Caguas municipal government has locked down a $19.2 million non-revolving line of credit from Banco Popular to finance expenses related to the recovery projects related to the damages caused by Hurricane María in 2017. Caguas Mayor William Miranda-Torres confirmed that the town’s administration approved an ordinance authorizing the financing. The town will use the […]
The Center for a New Economy (CNE) published a policy brief on the resources assigned to Puerto Rico by the federal government for reconstruction and recovery after Hurricane María, up to March 31, 2021 and called for a wider discussion of how these funds will be used. “Obligating and spending the federal funding assigned for […]
Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi and U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Marcia L. Fudge on Tuesday discussed the island’s access to disaster relief funding, underscoring their commitment to continue accelerating Puerto Rico’s recovery. Last week, HUD announced the obligation of $8.2 billion in Community Development Block Grant Mitigation (CDBG-MIT) funds, along with […]
On March 4, One Stop Career Center of Puerto Rico recently began the rehabilitation of eight homes in the Playa community, in Salinas, affected by Hurricanes Irma and María as a result of a philanthropic investment of $140,000 from the Puerto Rico Community Foundation. Most of the homes to benefit are made of wood and […]
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