Los chavos de María

Communities and experts object that the federal entity selected coastal areas for mitigation projects based only on economic criteria, without considering social variables.

It was raining almost non-stop for 11 days over Puerto Rico’s southern and southwestern towns. A surge of water flooded near 50 residences in the Parcelas Pole Ojea in Llanos Costa neighborhood, in Cabo Rojo. This was in 2008. But the flood mitigation project for which the U.S. Department of Housing allocated $3,093,000 through the […]

She was sitting on the stairs of what had been her residence for almost four decades holding a photo album of the impressive historic mansion built in 1910 on the grounds of the Central Aguirre Sugar Mill in Salinas. Now there is only debris and some walls. There is no roof, no trace of the […]

Politicians and government officials made sure that the funds needed to protect the insured in the event of a catastrophe were reduced.

Leptospirosis is no stranger to Puerto Rico and research by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has shown that before people got sick after Hurricane Maria, health officials’ passive surveillance hampered the ability to detect and prevent getting infected with this bacteria.

Before a new contract was granted to Cobra Acquisitions, Tribble met with Zamot at the Fiscal Control Board’s office to discuss company-related matters. Executives from Cobra and Filsinger Energy Partners, who serves as an adviser to the Rosselló administration in the PREPA restructuring, also participated.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of the Inspector General (HUD’s OIG) confirmed it is auditing the Community Development Block Grant–Disaster Recovery (CDBG–DR) Program funds granted to Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and María. HUD Spokesman Darryl Madden told the Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI, for its initials in Spanish) that he […]

As confirmed by the president and CEO of FPR, Annie Mayol, the entity did not go through a competitive process to administer the $ 37.5 million in federal CDBG-DR funds for the development of the Community Resilience Planning Program.