The nearly $10 million difference for this expense is compounded by the fact that some facilities spent more for this line item due to prolonged breakdowns or unexpected repairs of electrical substations.
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The Tech-Cartel that Rules in the Puerto Rico Department of Health
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A small tech company called SupportPR, owned by a donor and collaborator of Gov. Pedro Pierluisi, has controlled and set the hiring guidelines for tech jobs at the Department of Health since the pandemic that has exceeded $144 million.
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U.S. Supreme Court Tramples Puerto Ricans’ Right of Access to Information
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SCOTUS’s decision effectively gives the Board the power not to comply with the fundamental right that Puerto Rico citizens have to know what is happening in their government. This is unprecedented even for the government of the United States. This decision only applies to the Board and not to the Government of Puerto Rico or any of its instrumentalities, which continue to be subject to the constitutional right of access to information recognized by the Puerto Rico Supreme Court more than 40 years ago.
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Vulnerable and Racialized Communities Are Most Affected by Climate Crisis
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“The issue of climate change is intersected by capitalism, colonialism and racism.” Gloriann Sacha Antonetty Lebrón, founder and editor of Revista étnica, said during her participation in the panel “Intersections of poverty, race, gender and climate crisis,” as part of the lineup of activities during the Caribe Fest event that took place May 4-6 in Old San Juan. Antonetty Lebrón sat with Roberto Thomas, coordinator of the Jobos Bay Eco Development Initiative (Idebajo, in Spanish), at the panel moderated by Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI, in Spanish) journalists José Encarnación and Cristina del Mar Quiles — also co-founder of the feminist journalism media outlet Todas. They explained that there is an intersection between the climate crisis and poverty, people of color and gender, which is observed, for example, in the displacement events of vulnerable communities in Puerto Rico. Antonetty Lebrón evoked the historical aspect of racism and enslaved people to show the experiences that vulnerable communities have experienced along Puerto Rico’s southern region, the historic population of Calle Loiza in Santurce, -a San Juan neighborhood- as well as residents of the island municipalities of Vieques and Culebra. “Racism, trafficking, slavery… what it did was dehumanize us and give reason to exploit us; break our spirit, exploit our lands, force us to work the land and, once we get to enjoy the natural resources a bit, we know that they are resources that are constantly under threat: they plunder them, they displace us,” the editor of Revista Étnica said.
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It is Urgent to Protect Puerto Rico’s Ecosystems to Survive Global Warming
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Caribbean islands such as Puerto Rico, before reaching this dramatic point of disappearance, could see the consequence that fresh water becomes too salty to drink, coastal communities disappear, and temperatures become so high that it will be difficult or even impossible, to survive. Conditions for agriculture and, therefore, the island’s ability to produce food, will also become complicated.
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Caribe Fest Presents the Region’s Climate Vulnerability
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During a video interview on the climate crisis, as part of the Caribe Fest held in Puerto Rico, climate finance policy adviser David Eckstein explained the vulnerability climate indicators that Caribbean countries such as Puerto Rico and Haiti have been known for from 2000 to 2019.
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Caribe Fest: A snapshot of the first day’s agenda
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The Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI, in Spanish) kicked-off the Caribe Fest today with a call from its Executive Director, Carla Minet, to promote collaborative investigations, particularly among journalists from the Caribbean, a region that is united by common problems and experiences such as the climate crisis, which is the central theme of this event that takes place through this Saturday in Old San Juan. During the workshop “How to work collaborative investigations among media outlets,” Minet explained that collaborative writing is usually on topics that require a significant resources and experience. The CPI, based in Puerto Rico, has a long history of publishing investigative journalism in collaboration with media outlets in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Minet’s experience in this type of collaborative projects has shown that they tend to be more efficient because it allows costs and resources to be distributed, there is greater transparency in the findings, and the validation of the information. “What networking journalism does is broadens the scope of investigations and the possibility of having a greater impact,” said the Puerto Rican journalist.
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Schools Rescued from the Bureaucracy of Abandonment
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Nonprofit organizations that rescued closed public schools claim ownership of the properties to give continuity to projects in their communities but the government is moving in the opposite direction.
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Government Demands Confidentiality on Rosselló Nevares’s Political Committee Expenses
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Despite warnings of wrongdoing from within the campaign committee and an audit finding serious flaws, a Justice Department investigation into the summer of 2019 disbursements has remained unresolved for more than two years.
