contracts

Contractor Edgardo Navarro Suárez, the brother of pro-statehood Representative Jorge “Georgie” Navarro Suárez, secured nearly $13 million in contracts to repair public schools in Puerto Rico and, over seven years, amassed $14.5 million in government contracts with various agencies.

Many government contractors living in the United States have donated to Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi. The only apparent relationship that most of them have with Puerto Rico is working for a company with a government contract.

While the Governor downplayed the resignation of nearly a dozen experts he had convened to decentralize and depoliticize the agency, the federal government asked him to put the community’s needs at the forefront of the initiative and ensure the right voices are seated at the table.

The Municipality of Caguas canceled the contract with Universal Properties Realty Government Services, LLC., after an internal investigation confirmed irregularities in the process of declaring public nuisances and their sale by that company in Caguas, said Mayor William Miranda Torres in an interview with the Center for Investigative Journalism.