During her visit this weekend to Puerto Rico, the governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, and her counterpart on the island, Pedro Pierluisi, announced the Economic Opportunity Advisory Council of NY and Puerto Rico with the purpose of strengthen economic ties between the state and the territory. According to a statement released Friday by Hochul’s … Read more
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A month after the U.S. govt declared a national community wellbeing crisis about the monkeypox outbreak, the governor on Friday Pedro Pierluisi has declared a point out of crisis to strengthen the formal response from this disorder. “We have no federal funding (for the command and prevention of this virus),” reported Dr. Melissa Marzán, head … Read more
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Although a panel of judges of the Court of Appeals dismissed an action to challenge executive and administrative orders issued to mitigate the effects of the pandemic of COVID-19concluded that neither the governor Pedro Pierluisi nor the Secretary of Health, Carlos Melladoare authorized to issue guidelines that constitute regulation of the conduct of citizens in … Read more
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Faced with record numbers of infections of COVID-19 in Puerto Rico, the governor Pedro Pierluisi signed this Sunday a new executive order that establishes that everyone attending a mass activity in closed or open spaces and that encourages the agglomeration of people will have to present a negative coronavirus test -molecular or antigen- carried out … Read more
The governor Pedro Pierluisi and the Secretary of Health, Carlos Mellado López, celebrated on Monday the dismissal of the federal case that sought to declare unconstitutional the Executive Order that made vaccination mandatory in public employees. After an extensive parade of witness and scientific evidence, Federal Judge Pedro Delgado, validated Administrative Bulletin OE-2021-058 and dismissed … Read more
With a view to combating gender violence in the country, Governor Pedro Pierluisi signed a new law that amends the Penal Code of Puerto Rico to recognize and establish femicides and transfeminicides as conducts that constitute a crime of murder in the first degree. Senate Bill 130 is authored by the Senator of the Popular … Read more
Governor Pedro Pierluisi reiterated that he will attend the inauguration of Joe Biden as president of the United States and assured that he will use this trip to promote statehood for Puerto Rico. The first executive made the expressions at the end of his participation in the inauguration of the mayor of Bayamón, Ramón Luis … Read more