The News and Times of Puerto Rico - Blog by Michael Novakhov

$3,700 Generators and $666 Sinks: FEMA Contractors Charged Steep ... The New York Times This Town Once Feared the 10-Story Waves. Then the Extreme Surfers Showed Up. New York Times $3700 Generators and $666 Sinks: FEMA Contractors Charged Steep Markups on  Puerto Rico  Repairs New York Times SAN JUAN, P.R. — Juan F. Rodríguez had substantial damage to his house in northeastern  Puerto Rico  after Hurricane Maria slammed through in September 2017, but he felt better when he was told that the Federal Emergency Management Agency would … $3,700 Generators and $666 Sinks: FEMA Contractors Charged Steep Markups on Puerto Rico Repairs Monday November 26 th , 2018  at  6:54 AM 1 Share 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 wer