The obstacles to guaranteeing services to kidney patients are still there, as LUMA does not give the highest priority when restoring energy to dialysis centers, nor has a patient registry or a comprehensive plan been created to serve the population with the most deaths after Hurricane María.
Las trabas para garantizar los servicios a pacientes renales siguen vigentes, pues LUMA no les da máxima prioridad a la hora de restablecer energía a los centros de diálisis ni se ha creado un registro de pacientes o un plan abarcador que atienda a la población que más muertes vio tras el huracán María.
Outside the Santiago Veve Calzada School, in Fajardo, a ninth-grade student walks with her mother. It is noon and the three schools that run on this campus on an “interlocking” model are changing shifts. The youngster took the Baseline diagnostic test, which seeks to measure the academic lag of students. When asked about the process, the youngster simply shakes her head, as if to say no. Her mother asks hers to speak up and describe her experience.
Just over a mile of coastline separates Pocita Julio Barroso Valentín and Kikita Beach from the most exclusive beaches on the grounds of the Embassy Suites Hotel and the controlled access neighborhoods of the Dorado del Mar residential complex. All those beaches are in the Higuillar neighborhood in Dorado. “La Pocita” and Kikita Beach, located in the Mameyal sector, see their main access gate closed at 6 p.m., as dictated by a municipal ordinance that went into effect in 2018, after residents of the area demanded peace at night. Some residences in the area known as “La Pocita” in the Mameyal sector are for sale for between $60,000 and $100,000, as I saw on property sales pages. A cyclone fence with a green mesh defines the other reality, to the west of Mameyal, where the beaches of the Embassy Suites Hotel and Dorado del Mar are located.
Un asesor del primer ministro de Malasia necesitaba ayuda para gestionar empresas en la capital, Kuala Lumpur, y en Hong Kong. Los fiscales afirman que este asesor y sus socios utilizaron las empresas para desviar cientos de millones de dólares procedentes de un fondo de desarrollo económico del Gobierno. Un fabricante ruso de rifles Kalashnikov, sometido a sanciones internacionales por conducta indebida, quería vender sus acciones en una gran mina de cobre a una turbia empresa de Mongolia. La venta desató una investigación por corrupción contra el entonces primer ministro de Mongolia. El gigante tecnológico Apple estaba buscando un paraíso fiscal para depositar su montaña de dinero en efectivo en el exterior.
The corporation’s first reliability report confirms that it took almost twice as long to restore power to customers in its first quarter of operations, compared to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority.
On the fourth anniversary of Hurricane María, only 1% of the funds have been disbursed for permanent work projects.
The agency failed to comply with a preparedness and response protocol that it had agreed with the US Government to deal with such emergencies.
