2:50 AM 11/27/2018 - Ricardo Rosselló understands that statehood is closer than ever
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Ricardo Rosselló understands that statehood is closer than ever
The New Dia.com Governor Ricardo Rosselló Nevares said yesterday that, two years into his term, he understands that statehood is closer than ever, even when the bill that the New Progressive Party (PNP) promoted for the admission of Puerto Rico ... Rosselló asks for the will of the people regarding the proposed referendumNotiCel Rosselló would support another status plebiscite First Time Governor expects Congress to validate the will of the people in referendumDiario Metro de Puerto Rico Today Los Angeles - The Speaker of Puerto Rico all 28 news articles » |
Governor Ricardo Rosselló Nevares said that, two years into his term, he understands that statehood is closer than ever , even though the bill that the New Progressive Party (NPP) promoted for the admission of Puerto Rico as a state 51 it was shelved by The Republican majority in the federal House of Representatives .
Rossello considered that the change to the federal majority in the Lower House and in the chairmanship of the Committee of Natural Resources in that body does not undermine the possibilities for Congress to approve an admission project , because for that they have the electoral pressure of the Puerto Rican Diaspora, which has increased in recent months.
"We will continue to demand this in a bipartisan manner. The people of Puerto Rico chose a Democratic governor and a resident commissioner (in Washington DC) Republican, and we worked together. With the change that took place in the House and the Senate (federal), we will continue with that effort, "he reacted to questions from El Nuevo Día .
The governor mentioned, by way of example, that "in a race like Florida, both leading candidates to the Senate (federal) supported statehood, when that perhaps in a past century had not been a topic."
"It shows you that there is now a very different platform," he added of Republican Rick Scott's victory over Bill Nelson , supported by the PNP.
Rossello had backed Nelson for his opposition to federal tax reform, his support for billions of additional dollars of Medicaid, his support for statehood and solidarity with Puerto Rico during the recovery of Hurricane Maria, as announced at a conference Press in Orlando.
El presidente saliente delComité de Recursos Naturales de la Cámara baja federal, Rob Bishop, escribió una carta al Departamento de Justicia federal para que utilice los $4.2 millones asignados mediante una legislación federal de 2014, para que Puerto Rico realice otro plebiscito con la pregunta “estadidad sí o no”.
El presidente electo del Partido Popular Democrático (PPD), Aníbal José Torres, expresó su oposición a este plebiscito por entender que excluye otras alternativas. Además, consideró que se trata de una movida de Bishop para quedar bien con la comisionada residente en Washington D.C., Jenniffer González.
Resta importancia a reclamos de la oposición
Abordado sobre si había voluntad para llegar a un consenso con otros partidos políticos, Rosselló contestó que continúa firme en su apuesta para que “se valide la voluntad del pueblo puertorriqueño” expresada en los plebiscitos de 2012 y 2017.
En 2017, la estadidad obtuvo el 97% de respaldo en el plebiscito, pero la participación electoral fue más baja que nunca para un referéndum de status (23%), en medio del boicot de los partidos de oposición.
Rosselló se limitó a expresar que no entendía las quejas de los partidos de oposición en contra de un nuevo plebiscito sobre “estadidad sí o no”.
“Excusas tendrán porque han sido muy creativos en el pasado. Pues ya se les están acabando, y se les está acabando el tiempo”, anticipó.
Immediately, he posed a false dichotomy regarding the decolonizing solution: "They are two
sides only: either you want to solve the status problem or you do not want to solve it".
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The bureaucracy around the housing repairs was so complex that the first repairs did not begin until more than five months after the hurricane. A full year after the September 2017 storm, a New York Times review found that thousands of Puerto Ricans were still living in ruined houses. For many of them, the FEMA money left over after trickling down through so many middlemen hardly made a dent in what they needed.
Lisandra Oquendo, who lives in Punta Santiago on Puerto Rico’s eastern coast, was told that her house had been approved for $18,000 in FEMA repair funds, and she was stunned at how little was accomplished with the money. The contractors patched up her roof, gave her a generator, replaced more than a dozen broken window crank operators, installed several appliances, two windows and a door, and cleaned mold off the walls. But because her roof is made of concrete, she said, they told her they could not repair it.
“They said, ‘We don’t do paint, we don’t do floors, we don’t work with cement,’” she said. “So what do you do?”
Contractors have said that the rates they collect cover a variety of expenses, including shipping fees, workers’ compensation insurance, vehicle and warehouse rental, taxes and profit. But prices charged for equipment and appliances often bore little relation to what was charged on the retail market, even in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico.
According to Department of Housing records, FEMA paid for about 12,400 people to receive generators at a cost of $3,700 each. The 5,500-watt portable devices and supplies they came with cost the contractors about $800 each, other documents show. FEMA paid $666 apiece for new bathroom sinks, but the contractors who actually bought and installed them paid $260 apiece. FEMA paid almost $4 a square foot to repair roofs; the work was done by subcontractors for $1.64 a foot.
The deal the Department of Housing signed required smoke detectors in every sleeping area, so each of the 122,000 houses in the program was equipped with the devices, for which FEMA was billed $82 apiece. A receipt reviewed by The New York Times showed that one subcontractor ordered them in bulk from an Ace Hardware store in the city of Aguadilla for $6.99 each.
“Fifty-eight percent is being taken off the top as overhead and profit from the two contractors above us,” said Brandon Padgett, owner of BVP Construction in Houston, which conducted repairs on 52 houses under the program. “Is there 58 percent overhead and profit needed to implement this? No, because we are doing 90 percent of the work.”
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The technology industry in Puerto Rico represents 28.3% of the manufacturing sector in the economy of Puerto Rico.[1]
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Western Queens Gazette-Nov 21, 2018
“In New York, we proudly stand with Puerto Rico as we always have before. ... City represents the largest economic development project in New York State history. ... We're going to use this opportunity to open up good careers in tech to ..... For more information or to register, contact Pheffer Amato's office at ...
Rebuilding Paradise
<a href="http://DSNews.com" rel="nofollow">DSNews.com</a>-Nov 22, 2018
With Puerto Rico having marked the one-year anniversary of ... and Urban Development announced that Puerto Rico would receive $18.5 ... the island continues to face both an economic and a foreclosure crisis. ... “The biggest challenge our industry faces is the lack of identifiable information,” Hurst said.
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