Puerto Rico needs to attack a series of urgent needs to rebuild the island in the wake of Hurricane María, as well as find ways to incorporate more people into the workforce, said Prominent banking executive Richard Carrión.
Six months after Hurricane María made landfall, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers “remains committed to safely and urgently restoring reliable power and returning normalcy to the U.S. citizens of Puerto Rico as quickly as possible,” the agency said on the half anniversary of the storm.
Six months after Hurricane María devastated Puerto Rico, power and water have been restored in most communities, millions of cubic yards of debris have been removed, hospitals and other government services are open and bridges are being replaced, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said.
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