Vanessa Colón Almenas

Neither Enchanted Rock nor Flotek, which joined the temporary power generation deal through Power Expectations, was registered or authorized to do business in Puerto Rico.

The convicted crypto entrepreneur visited the island several times and was a signatory to the multibillion-dollar agreement between the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and Power Expectations.

Juan Ramón González Galarza’s firm advises both P3A and PREPA — but he did not disclose information to the public utility about problems with the Power Expectations contract.

The allegations made by former Economic Development and Commerce Secretary Sebastián Negrón Reichard have placed under scrutiny a company that has expanded across multiple government agencies in recent years.

A judge ordered Puerto Rico’s Treasury Department to explain why it awarded an $8.7 million Lottery Bureau advertising contract to another agency, despite Digimedia receiving the highest score in the bidding process.

Privileged government information can give officials who move into the private sector an unfair competitive advantage, a business ethics expert says.

Veintinueve de Febrero has secured up to $8.7 million to oversee Puerto Rico Lottery campaigns.

The outlook is grim. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has announced that its secretary will now personally review any grant or contract award exceeding $100,000 before the funds can be committed, the agency told the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo.

An advertising agency with contracts exceeding $47 million has been tasked with staging and coordinating parties, breakfasts, and luncheons, as well as handling the purchase of promotional materials for the Puerto Rico Lottery Bureau.

The fund expired in June. Originally approved by the Legislature in 2020 to provide municipalities with liquidity, the reserve ultimately failed to deliver. Jenniffer González now plans to redirect it toward energy projects that could benefit “other entities,” not just government agencies.

Amid a web of conflicts, Eduardo Soria Rivera — who has led Puerto Rico’s main recovery office since January — also chairs the Governing Board of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority.

After a $1 billion cut to one of the main federally funded mitigation programs — designed to help communities tackle climate change — Puerto Rico is losing significant grants. For the past four days, Governor Jenniffer González's administration has remained silent on the matter.

The CEE has not clarified why it invested $1.3 million in modems despite knowing in advance that they would not work in half of the polling places.

The Puerto Rico Lottery Bureau created new permanent positions to secure jobs for political appointees who used a WhatsApp chat to coordinate political activities and, at times, to mock PNP voters. In the four-year term that ends in December, these employees also benefited from substantial salary increases

As the sky began to clear around 6:30 a.m. on Thursday, Madeline Colón and her husband, Flor Colón, decided to check on their home on Shadow Brook Lane in the Palmetto community, west of Florida. “It was the most horrible night of my life,” as she described the onslaught of Hurricane Milton. Fallen trees, flooded […]

Puerto Ricans living in Florida seek refuge fearing their homes won't withstand Hurricane Milton's impact