Category Archives: Politics

10 Puerto Rican Schools Receive Resilient Microgrids

… said Roy Torbert, RMI’s Puerto Rico program leader.
“This project … transform the lives of Puerto Rican youth and to do … the positive transformation of Puerto Rico’s education and its … Puerto Rico by helping talented students with financial need in Puerto Rico

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Puerto Rico bill to be reworked; Sanders calls for debt audit

WASHINGTON, USA — House Republicans on Friday were reworking proposed legislation to address Puerto Rico’s debt crisis but, according to House Natural Resources Committee chairman Rob Bishop, “The bill is not going to change substantially.”

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Puerto Rico Implicated in Panama Papers leak

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico has not remained unscathed following the revelation of leaked documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, involving a number of people from the higher echelons of global society. The Centro de Periodismo Investigativo de Puerto Rico…

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Bondholders withdraw restraining order against Puerto Rico development bank

NEW YORK, USA — Substantial holders of outstanding bonds of the Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico (GDB) have withdrawn their request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) in the wake of an executive order signed by Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro García Padilla.

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Twenty-one individuals indicted for violating RICO Act in Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A 17 count federal indictment was unsealed on Thursday in the District of Puerto Rico charging 21 defendants with racketeering, conspiracy to commit bank robbery, burglary and larceny, interference with commerce by robbery, carjacking, conspiracy to…

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