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...Brad Setser, an economist who worked on Puerto Rican issues in Obama’s Treasury department, writes that “the risk of the new (Cofina) bond . . . is that the amount Puerto Rico needs to pay will double (from...
...Puerto Rico will need “tens of billions” of dollars in aid from Washington as it struggles to stabilise a humanitarian crisis in the wake of Hurricane Maria, according to the island’s treasury secretary....
...Yet Raúl Maldonado-Gautier , the treasury secretary, says that even “before the hurricane . . . our worst problem in Puerto Rico was emigration because my tax base is being reduced and many of the people...
...Puerto Rico’s treasury secretary, Raúl Maldonado-Gautier, told the Financial Times this week that the heavily indebted territory would need “tens of billions” of dollars in aid from Congress to recover....
...Tom Price, the US Department of Health and Human Services secretary, has declared a public health emergency in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands and has deployed specialised disaster medical assistance...
...Advisors to Puerto Rico on Tuesday threw cold water on proposals that would see the US commonwealth discriminate between creditors invested in the same bonds....
...US Treasury secretary Jack Lew warned on Monday that time was running out to address the spiralling crisis in Puerto Rico, a week after the island suffered a dramatic default....
...Juan Zaragoza Gómez, secretary of the Puerto Rican Treasury, resigned from the board of the development bank last week in an effort to avoid a conflict of interest, according to two people familiar with...
...Jack Lew, treasury secretary, who travelled to Puerto Rico twice this year as the debt crisis deepened, said the new bill represented “a fair, but tough bipartisan compromise”....
...Congress that is meant to address the commonwealth’s rapidly deteriorating economic situation, Eric Platt reports in San Juan....
...Martin Benitez Torres, 33 Torres, from San Juan, Puerto Rico. was in Orlando visiting family. In several videos posted on the day of the shooting, he talked about how beautiful the area was....
...As part of the plan, released by the Treasury, National Economic Council and Department of Health and Human Services, Puerto Rico would be provided access to bankruptcy courts to restructure its debts, which...
...The plan, which will be scrutinised by investors who have just agreed a restructuring with Puerto Rico’s electric power authority, included proposals to consolidate the commonwealth’s education department...
...Fed has at its disposal Donald Trump’s protectionism has a good pedigree Puerto Rico opens accounts at commercial bank to sustain services Move seen as quick fix for Commonwealth’s Treasury and public...
...Four fifths of all journeys in this country are by road, yet we rank behind Puerto Rico and Namibia in the quality of our network....
...Before joining the Bank, she was Permanent Secretary of the Department for Transport....
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