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- Sharyl Attkisson: Where Did The $91 Billion For Hurricane Recovery In Puerto Rico Go?
- 20 Members Of A Violent Gang Charged For Drug Trafficking And Firearms Violations In Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico
- Experts Worry About Puerto Rico’s Rapid Rise in COVID Cases
- Puerto Rico’s Tourism Industry Is Suffering. High Season Is Not Looking Any Better.
- Fee cut to lure cruise lines to lay up ships in Puerto Rico ports
- EPA Region 2 to Provide $1.1 Million Grant to the University of Puerto Rico to Reduce Air Pollution in San Juan, paying to accelerate the destruction of older short-haul trucks, buses
- Transgender woman beaten, stabbed in Puerto Rico, skull fractured, needs reconstructive surgery
- Trump thanks Puerto Rican governor, Wanda Vazquez Garced, for 2020 election endorsement
- Gov. Vázquez suspends order that raised minimum wage in construction. Minimum wage laws do more harm than good
- Puerto Rico Chambers of Commerce oppose potential lockdown amid rise in Covid-19 cases
- Puerto Rican authorities have thousands of fraud cases to process for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance fraud
- Governor Wanda Vazquez endorses Donald Trump for President
- Agents Seize $27 Million In U.S. Currency Inside Boxes Bound For St. Thomas from San Juan Puerto Rico port
- Four Puerto Rican Police Officers Charged With Conspiracy To Commit Robbery.
- Fiscal Board sends Property Tax Recommendations to Puerto Rico government. If PR property taxes go up, real estate values will go down
- Roche to Close Puerto Rico Plant After More Than Four Decades. 200 jobs will be lost
- Border Patrol Seizes $14.8 Million Dollars Worth Of Cocaine, Arrests 4 Illegal Immigrants Near Puerto Rico
- Retail sales plunge 56 percent amid Covid-19 lockdown in April
- Puerto Rico Legislator Nelson Del Valle Colon and Two Capitol Employees Indicted for Theft and Bribery
- Meet 4 Women Pushing Puerto Rico’s Sustainable Farming Movement Forward
- Puerto Rico imposes stricter measures amid coronavirus spike, until at least 9-11-20
- Puerto Rico governor calling for the island to be made a US state LOSES bid to lead her party in chaotic primary election that saw delayed and missing ballots
- FBI arrests seventh defendant in Julia Keleher case, Aníbal Jover Pagés
- Video captures daytime shooting on Martinez Nadal expressway in Guaynabo, 2 dead
- Puerto Ricans, upset at botched primary, demand answers. The Elections Commission failed to print and distribute enough ballots to multiple voting locations
- Puerto Rico governor extends anti-coronavirus measures for 2 weeks, until July 15, 2020
- Pensions must be out of electoral intentions. Politicians shouldn’t using public resources for political purposes.
- With primaries around the corner, Gov. Vázquez faces criminal probe
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez aka AOC is a misguided dangerous radical who should be cancelled, not GOYA Foods, because she wants to harm America, promote lawlessness, destroy jobs
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- ‘They are killing our nation’: Goya Foods CEO slams boycott of his brand and says protesters are the same people who are tearing down statues of Jesus Christ as he doubles down on Trump support
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- The Fund dismisses the husband of Tata Charbonier and the wife of the mayor of Cataño. FBI raids home
- Hurricane Maria’s impact on Puerto Rico’s population will last for decades, study shows. PR’s population expected to drop 200,000 by the year 2047
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Tag Archives: waste
Puerto Rico’s Urban Train – Let’s Review, 15 Years Later – A Hesitant Puerto Rico Tries Commuting by Train
Was it a success or a boondoggle and huge waste of money? Were the rosy projections correct? http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/19/us/a-hesitant-puerto-rico-tries-commuting-by-train.html A Hesitant Puerto Rico Tries Commuting by Train By Ariana Green Nov. 19, 2005 SAN JUAN, P.R. – Carlos Medina rides the … Continue reading
Posted in incompetence and mismanagement, Puerto Rico necessary improvements, transportation
Tagged bus, car, cars, commuter, fraud, mismanagement, públicos, Puerto Rico, rail, station, train, train station, Urban Train, waste
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Water is a crucial shield against the pandemic
380 million gallons wasted from 640 million gallons produced daily! Over 59% of produced water is wasted in Puerto Rico? Will file under Incompetence & Mismanagement. https://www.elnuevodia.com/english/english/nota/waterisacrucialshieldagainstthepandemic-2568005 Water is a crucial shield against the pandemic Drinking water is essential for … Continue reading
Puerto Rico government continues paying all government workers, even those NOT working while at home. Now PR wants to give them an extra $500 bonus.
Where is the shared sacrifice? There are already too many government workers in Puerto Rico relative to the overall population. It’s easy to give away money that’s not your own. Taken to its logical conclusion, this is a race to … Continue reading
Posted in corruption, culture and cycle of dependency, incompetence and mismanagement, Puerto Rico necessary improvements, Puerto Rico politics and government
Tagged $500, $500 bonus, bankrupt, bonus, corruption, debt, employees, Francisco Rodríguez-Castro, fraud, government, mismanagement, Puerto Rico, waste, William Villafañe, workers
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Puerto Rico’s yearslong debate over WTE Waste to Energy continues as the island’s landfill issues mount
https://www.wastedive.com/news/puerto-rico-wte-island-landfill/575843 Puerto Rico’s yearslong debate over WTE continues as the island’s landfill issues mount After a proposed incinerator project stalled in 2018, the territory’s long-term plan remains uncertain as noncompliant landfills are reaching capacity. The image by SPC Hamiel Irizarry … Continue reading
Posted in incompetence and mismanagement
Tagged Arecibo, capacity, coal ash, Coalition of Anti-Incineration Organizations, compliant, Energy Answers International, Friends of the River Guaynabo, garbage, gasification, Guayama, incinerator, Ingrid Vila Biaggi, landfill, landfills, Myrna Conty, non-compliant, noncompliant, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Recycling Partnership, recycle, recycling, trash, waste, waste management, WTE, zero waste
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Lessons Learned: FEMA cited for costly mistakes during Puerto Rico hurricane
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/dhs-watchdog-highlights-fema-failures Lessons Learned: FEMA cited for costly mistakes during Puerto Rico hurricane IG says FEMA could have saved time and money using available advance contracts during devastation from Hurricane Maria. Puerto Rico devastation from Hurricane Maria (RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP via Getty … Continue reading
Federal government pays people $1050 to destroy generator, cement mixer, backhoe, icebox, washer/dryer combo unit and trolleybuses. Why not sell them instead?
https://www.justice.gov/usao-pr/pr/three-individuals-indicted-and-arrested-lying-agency-united-states-and-embezzlement Why is the federal government paying people $1050 to destroy a “generator, cement mixer, backhoe, icebox, washer/dryer combo unit and trolleybuses?” Why not sell them instead? Doesn’t seem like smart government to pay for the destruction of property that … Continue reading
Posted in corruption, crime
Tagged convicted, destruction, embezzlement, false statements, forfeiture, government, government property, government waste, property, prosecuted, Puerto Rico, waste
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Misuse of funds by Puerto Rico government officials undermines public mission – corruption, fraud
https://www.elnuevodia.com/english/english/nota/misuseoffundsunderminespublicmission-2537380 Misuse of funds undermines public mission If anything dramatizes the reasons why Puerto Rico is bankrupt and is under the federal government’s distrust, it is that municipal government have misused multi-million dollar funds on unnecessary, incomplete or ill-conceived projects. … Continue reading
Posted in corruption, culture and cycle of dependency, economic crisis
Tagged corrupt, corruption, fraud, funds, government, Gurabo, mayor, mayors, misuse, municipalities, municipality, Naranjito, PR, public service, public services, Puerto Rico, waste
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$3,700 Generators and $666 Sinks: FEMA Contractors Charged Steep Markups on Puerto Rico Repairs
Sounds like 80% of the FEMA funds were wasted. Wouldn’t the money have been far more effectively spent in direct payments to the victims, with a mechanism restricting those checks payable only for home repairs? The widespread culture of … Continue reading
Posted in corruption, incompetence and mismanagement
Tagged abuse, billed, contract, contractor, contractors, contracts, corruption, FEMA, fraud, funds, homeowner, homeowners, María Elena Villalobos, markup, Michael Byrne, middlemen, overhead, Puerto Rico, repair, repairs, Tu Hogar Renace, waste
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How much does each mayor earn in Puerto Rico?
https://www.metro.pr/pr/noticias/2018/11/16/cuanto-gana-alcalde-puerto-rico.html How much does each mayor earn in Puerto Rico? None of the salaries is equal to or less than the average income of its constituents By Metro Puerto Rico Friday, November 16, 2018, at 17:18 The Censal Information Center … Continue reading
Puerto Rican college student illustrates why the Fiscal Oversight Board is necessary to rein in corruption and mismanagement in PR government
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2018/11/16/wolpert-gaztambide-integrating-puerto-rico WOLPERT GAZTAMBIDE: Integrating Puerto Rico Christian Wolpert Gaztambide 1:44 am, Nov 16, 2018 Guest Columnist In the wake of Hurricane Maria, various campus organizations have mobilized against Yale’s holdings in mutual funds that hold Puerto Rican bonds. While I … Continue reading
