Puerto Rico Business Review Newsletter // October 22

October 22, 2018

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Rick Scott has financial ties to embattled Puerto Rico electric company, records show - Orlando Sentinel puerto rico financial control board - Google News: This RSS feed URL is deprecated puerto rico financial control board - Google News: Commentary Why PREPA receivership is a worthy proposal - Bond Buyer puerto rico financial control board - Google News: Agroecology as a Tool of Sovereignty and Resilience in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria - Civil Eats puerto rico financial control board - Google News: Resolving the Great Inventory Tax Debate - Caribbean Business puerto rico financial control board - Google News: A Chalkbeat roundtable: What New York City is still learning from its teacher strikes of 1968 - Chalkbeat New York puerto rico financial control board - Google News: Working the Angles: Innovacare in Helping Puerto Rico Overcome Healthcare Burdens - Gazette Day puerto rico financial control board - Google News: University of Puerto Rico retirees: Stop killing our retirement plan - Caribbean Business puerto rico financial control board - Google News: Wanted posters target Puerto Rico Fiscal Control Board 'mercenaries' - Workers World puerto rico financial control board - Google News: Gov. Rick Scott has financial ties to embattled Puerto Rico electric company, records show - Orlando Sentinel Puerto Rico Business Review from mikenova (2 sites) Gov. Rick Scott and his wife have financial ties to the hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico electric utility, according to federal campaign disclosure records, the same company Scott has been advising the island government about getting back to operation after being hit hard by Hurricane Maria last year. Read More puerto rico financial control board - Google News: This RSS feed URL is deprecated Puerto Rico Business Review from mikenova (2 sites) This RSS feed URL is deprecated, please update. New URLs can be found in the footers at https://news.google.com/news puerto rico financial control board - Google News Read More puerto rico financial control board - Google News: Commentary Why PREPA receivership is a worthy proposal - Bond Buyer Puerto Rico Business Review from mikenova (2 sites) Commentary Why PREPA receivership is a worthy proposal Bond Buyer The new motion explicitly does not seek a rate increase nor demand that the creditors exert control over energy planning, budgets or the receiver. Read More puerto rico financial control board - Google News: Agroecology as a Tool of Sovereignty and Resilience in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria - Civil Eats Puerto Rico Business Review from mikenova (2 sites) Even before Hurricane Maria devastated the island back in October 2017, Puerto Rico already imported 85 percent of its food. Local farming declined decades ago amid U.S.-led industrialization on the island, following a shift away from diversified small-scale farms to plantation agriculture. Read More puerto rico financial control board - Google News: Resolving the Great Inventory Tax Debate - Caribbean Business Puerto Rico Business Review from mikenova (2 sites) Editor’s note: The following report was first published in the Oct. 18-24, 2018, issue of Caribbean Business. For many years, the government and business organizations have supported the repeal of Puerto Rico’s inventory tax, but the change has never materialized. Read More puerto rico financial control board - Google News: A Chalkbeat roundtable: What New York City is still learning from its teacher strikes of 1968 - Chalkbeat New York Puerto Rico Business Review from mikenova (2 sites) Fifty years ago this fall, the United Federation of Teachers went on strike three times, closing New York City public schools for more than six weeks. The legacy of these strikes continues to reverberate through the city’s schools today. Read More puerto rico financial control board - Google News: Working the Angles: Innovacare in Helping Puerto Rico Overcome Healthcare Burdens - Gazette Day Puerto Rico Business Review from mikenova (2 sites) A crisis continues to unfold in Puerto Rico long after the landfall of 2017’s Hurricane Maria. While Puerto Ricanand a host of relief workers strive to restore power and revamp dilapidated homes and businesses, the looming crisis focuses on money and medicine. Read More puerto rico financial control board - Google News: University of Puerto Rico retirees: Stop killing our retirement plan - Caribbean Business Puerto Rico Business Review from mikenova (2 sites) (Courtesy) SAN JUAN – The Collective of Pensioners of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) protested Tuesday, against the island’s fiscal oversight board and the school’s governing board, claiming that these are looking to eliminate the university’s defined benefit pension plan and retirement trust. Read More puerto rico financial control board - Google News: Wanted posters target Puerto Rico Fiscal Control Board 'mercenaries' - Workers World Puerto Rico Business Review from mikenova (2 sites) Philadelphia — Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017. But over a year earlier, in June 2016, President Barack Obama unleashed economic devastation in the island/archipelago when he signed into law PROMESA — the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act. Read More

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