Puerto Rico

“What we had is basically everyone being overwhelmed in that circumstance. The territorial government was overwhelmed. FEMA was overwhelmed,” said Chris Currie, the GAO’s director for its Homeland Security and Justice team.

A dos semanas de la publicación de un informe comisionado por la Junta de Control Fiscal en torno a la deuda de Puerto Rico, el Gobierno todavía no dice qué hará con los hallazgos. Mientras, la Junta se aferra a mantener el control de los cuestionamientos sobre la deuda, y configura un comité que definiría si perseguirá alguna causa de acción.

She said it in Spanish. We translated it.

While the attorneys and consultants of Puerto Rico’s Fiscal Control Board provide restructuring services and financial advice, the government of Puerto Rico depends on its own squad of law firms and advisers, some of them former public officials who took part of the fiscal decision-making that led to the island’s fiscal woes.

Nada.

President had been criticized for saying shortly after the storm, when the official death toll was 16, that Hurricane Maria had not been  “a real catastrophe like Katrina.”

It took nearly a year for the Rosselló administration to admit what everyone already knew.

Total excess mortality post-hurricane using the migration displacement scenario is estimated to be 2,975 (95% CI: 2,658-3,290) for the total study period of September 2017 through February 2018.

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An agreement nearing approval as part of Puerto Rico’s debt restructuring process could block many forms of legal accountability for a key set of government officials and bankers that oversaw the creation of the debt—and stick credit unions and municipalities with the tab.

The government of Puerto Rico did it again.

A la vez que los abogados y consultores de la Junta de Control Fiscal trabajan con la reestructuración y asesoría financiera, el Gobierno de Puerto Rico depende de su propia madeja de contratistas, algunos de ellos exfuncionarios públicos que participaron en la toma de decisiones fiscales que llevaron a la crisis fiscal de la Isla.

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The agency expects the company to sign the contract and get the approval from the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico in two weeks.

El Gobierno de Puerto Rico lo hizo otra vez.

“The official number will be updated once the GW study is out,” Pedro Cerame, a spokesperson for the Puerto Rico’s Federal Affairs Administration, said.

La agencia espera que la empresa firme el contrato y que en dos semanas la Junta de Control Fiscal lo apruebe.

One reform will have the effect of hiding critical information from nearby communities, as well as allowing those who produce this waste to not have to respond for the pollution caused.

No se sabe si la acumulación de cadáveres en los vagones del Negociado de Ciencias Forenses (NCF) se debe a la falta de presupuesto de la agencia, la falta de patólogos forenses, a la ausencia de un comisionado en funciones, o a que los médicos no quieren certificar muertos en los hospitales.

“Based on death records following Hurricane Maria, the estimated hurricane-related mortality burden of 1,139 excess deaths through December 2017 was higher than the official death toll of 64.”