The feds owe Puerto Rican evacuees safe shelter
Yenita Rodriguez, 26, and her two children, Yelianis, 1, and Yelismary, 3, arrived from Puerto Rico on Jan. 24 with $400. She is staying at a hotel in Dedham.
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Many Puerto Ricans adrift in US hotels after Hurricane Maria
In this Jan. 9, 2018 photo, Enghie Melendez sits with her daughters Lidia, left, Alondra, and husband Fernando Moyet in their hotel kitchen in the Brooklyn borough of New York. After they lost their home in Puerto Rico to flooding during Hurricane Maria, Melendez fled with her family to the U.S. mainland with three suitcases and the hope that it wouldn't take long to rebuild their lives.
Power on the Way to Major Urban Areas as Fluor Completes Work on Priority Lines in Puerto Rico
The completion allows the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority to re-energize lines in Rio Piedras, Caguas and Minillas, as well as lines that run from Canovanas to Palmer. These lines will carry electricity to a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Caguas, schools, residential neighborhoods and several busy commercial districts.
Thousands of Puerto Rico police owed overtime call in sick
In this Nov. 15, 2017 photo, some roofs damaged by the whip of Hurricane Maria are shown still exposed to rainy weather conditions, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Department of Homeland Security's internal watchdog says his office will be investigating how a tiny Florida company won more than $30 million in contracts for desperately needed relief supplies following Hurricane Maria.
U.S. Handled Puerto Rico Hurricane Aftermath Badly, Says Refugee Group
This photo taken last month in San Juan, Puerto Rico, shows roofs damaged by Hurricane Maria and the interior of buildings still exposed to the elements. Carlos Giusti/AP hide caption This photo taken last month in San Juan, Puerto Rico, shows roofs damaged by Hurricane Maria and the interior of buildings still exposed to the elements.
Big contracts, no storm tarps for Puerto Rico
Pedro Deschamps helps workers hired by FEMA to carry out the installation of a temporary awning roof at his house, which suffered damage during Hurricane Maria, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017. A newly created Florida company with an unproven record won more than $30 million in contracts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide emergency tarps and plastic sheeting for repairs to hurricane victims in Puerto Rico.
Americans Are Stressed About the Future. Here’s Why That’s Promising
" The work of other progressives is now more immediate, more grounded in people's needs instead of in abstractions," writes Sarah van Gelder. Americans are really stressed out, according to a new poll by the American Psychological Association.
USACE teams with PRASA to provide water to 100,000 residents, businesses in NW Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico Running water is still a scarce commodity for many Puerto Ricans in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. But, in the past weeks residents in Isabella and Quebradillas have been able to wash, bathe, cook and drink from the tap again.
FEMA Disaster Recovery Center now open in Aguadilla
A government of Puerto Rico and Federal Emergency Management Agency Disaster Recovery Center opened Sunday Nov. 5 in Aguadilla. DRCs serve homeowners, renters and business owners who sustained damage as a result of Hurricane Maria.
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The town of Maunabo, Puerto Rico, pictured here on Oct. 27, suffered severe damage during Hurricane Maria. One month after the storm devastated Puerto Rico, most residents are still without power as the island struggles to get back on its feet.
Canceled contract with Trump-linked company throws Puerto Rico power restoration into disarray
Workers seek to repair distribution lines damaged by Hurricane Maria in the Cantera community of San Juan, Puerto Rico. CREDIT: AP Photo/Carlos Giusti Puerto Rico's decision to cancel its contract with Whitefish Energy Holdings LLC, a small Montana-based company with ties to the Trump administration, has thrown the island's electricity restoration efforts into disarray.
Puerto Rico reopens 119 schools but it could be months, or never, for many more
If it weren't for the tangled clump of power lines on a nearby corner and the partially unhinged stop sign down the street, Tuesday might have seemed like the first day of a normal school year at Julio Selles Sola School in San Juan's Rio Piedras neighborhood. Hundreds of students streamed into the brightly painted elementary school, giddy with nervous excitement, as their parents followed closely behind.
Puerto Rico seeks renewable energy future with Tesla
A Puerto Rican official who has been in talks with Tesla Inc said the island is serious about transforming its energy infrastructure after it was leveled by Category 4 Hurricane Maria, despite questions about how such an overhaul would be funded. A Puerto Rican official who has been in talks with Tesla Inc said the island is serious about transforming its energy infrastructure after it was leveled by Category 4 Hurricane Maria, despite questions about how such an overhaul would be funded.
Trump meets with Puerto Rico Governor, praises recovery work post-Maria
Repeatedly praising the work of the military and federal emergency officials, President Donald Trump used a Thursday meeting at the White House with the Governor of Puerto Rico to proclaim the disaster relief effort in the wake of Hurricane Maria to be a success, pushing back against critics who say much still needs to be done to restore power and other basic services. "I would give a 10," the President said, ticking off a list of efforts made by FEMA and the military in Puerto Rico, as he sat with the Governor of the island in the Oval Office.
USNS Comfort responds to second hospital generator failure
The U.S. Health and Human Services and Puerto Rico Department of Health representatives are prioritizing patients at each stop prior to Comfort's arrival. The Department of Defense is supporting the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the lead federal agency, in helping those affected by Hurricane Maria to minimize suffering and is one component of the overall whole-of-government response effort.
US Virgin Islands is grappling for attention after being hit by two hurricanes
Depending on what media outlets Americans engage, they might think that Puerto Rico is the only US territory hit by hurricanes recently, but that's not true. The US Virgin Islands were hit twice - by Hurricanes Irma and Maria - and for the most part have been overlooked in the national disaster relief conversation, said US House of Representatives Delegate Stacey Plaskett.
San Juan residents pitch in with cleanup, lifting their own spirits
Puerto Rican society is starting to mirror the island's jarring post-Maria natural landscape, where the ghostly gray-brown of wind-slashed tropical trees is already being overtaken by the iridescent green of emphatic new growth. Roberto Figueroa Caballero sits on a small table in his destroyed home Oct. 5 in the La Perla neighborhood of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
With little food, water or power, Puerto Rico residents say a no one has comea to help
In a 13-story apartment building just 15 minutes from the airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Lizbeth Vasquez Delgado is caring for her parents and their neighbors the best way she knows how. After Hurricane Maria came ashore as a catastrophic Category 4 hurricane in September, Vasquez, who lives in New York City, is tending to their needs.
Trump: Puerto Rico put budget ‘out of whack’ but lives saved
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico Confronting Puerto Rico's devastation nearly two weeks after Hurricane Maria, President Donald Trump highlighted the island's relatively low death toll compared with "a real catastrophe like Katrina" as he opened a tour of the island Tuesday by focusing on the best of the reviews he and his administration are getting for the ... (more)
Tears of relief as aid starts to reach remote parts of Puerto Rico
President Donald Trump's impending visit to storm-ravaged Puerto Rico and his public criticism of the U.S. territory's most prominent mayor appear to be the last thing on many people's minds on the island. The vast majority of households and businesses in Puerto Rico still had no electricity as of Saturday, 10 days after Hurricane Maria wrought destruction on the island.