Concern over the dramatic increase in COVID-19 cases in U.S and, therefore, the potential focus of contagion in Puerto Rico through the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport were the points of discussion yesterday at the meeting that the governor had Wanda Vázquez Garced with the Health Secretary, Lorenzo González Feliciano, and members of the medical … Read more
“I am willing to support, raise and promote funds for the rehabilitation of the zoo as long as it is for protection purposes and not for them to profit from them.” With that condition the actor and philanthropist Raúl Juliá Levy, son of the deceased Puerto Rican actor Raúl Juliá Arcelay, called on the governor … Read more
The country’s budget, two retirement projects, a measure that would increase the future pensions of police, fire and correctional officers, the Municipal Code and the new Condominium Law are on the list of measures to be discussed in conference committees ahead of the closing of the last regular session of the quadrennium on Tuesday. Conference … Read more
The governor Wanda Vázquez Garced announced today, Thursday, the distribution of $ 108.9 million among the 51 private hospitals on the island as part of the Strategic Disbursement Plan of the Cares law. “This millionaire distribution of funds, which began during the first week of June 2020, represents an important advance in the response to … Read more
The secretary of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DRNA), Rafael Machargo Maldonado, affirmed this Friday that it is up to the governor Wanda Vázquez Garced attend to the state in which the Dr. Juan A. Rivero Zoo, in Mayagüez, which has been closed to the public since 2017 and does not even have … Read more
After several weeks of being publicly unaware of the efforts of the medical task force, Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced reported today that she met with the group, along with Health Secretary Lorenzo González. “Analyzing and evaluating the current situation of #COVID19 on the island with the Medical Task Force and the Secretary of Health, Lorenzo … Read more
The governor Wanda Vázquez Garced revealed today, Friday, that Strength is close to completing a report on the property that disappeared from the Executive Mansion –according to the president- during the transition between Ricardo Rosselló Nevares and Pedro Pierluisi, and added that they will submit the document to the relevant authorities to initiate an investigation. … Read more
With the opposition of the minority, and with just weeks to the primarythe governor Wanda Vázquez Garced turned today into law the new version of the Electoral Code proposed by the president of the Senate Thomas Rivera Schatz and that led to the rejection of the entire community outside the government New Progressive Party (PNP). … Read more
The government of Puerto Rico began today, Friday, to disburse the payment of $ 1,200 of Economic Impact in aid for the pandemic of the COVID-19, approved under the CARES Law, for those citizens who are not required to file Income Tax Returns. The governor Wanda Vázquez Garced reported in a press release that this … Read more
The secretary of the Department of Labor, Briseida Torres, resigned immediately on Tuesday amid the avalanche of applications for unemployment benefits and criticism for her response to the crisis caused by the COVID-19. His resignation comes after a meeting he held this afternoon with the governor Wanda Vázquez Garced in La Fortaleza and, according to … Read more