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Puerto Rico Religious Leaders Ask Congress to Pass Debt Crisis Actions "As religious leaders in Puerto Rico, we urge you to act on behalf of the 3.4 million American citizens living on the island," wrote two prominent ministers to Congress about policies to help the debt-troubled island....
Posted: Wed, Mar 15, 2017 12:35pm PDT
Puerto Rico Requests Continued Debt Lawsuit Protection Puerto Rico's Governor is asking Congress to extend protections against debt lawsuits as the island charts a path for economic recovery....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2017 8:22am PST
Congress Moves Slowly on Bipartisan Puerto Rico Recommendations Congress has not acted on recommendations made by its Puerto Rico task force it implemented last year....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2017 9:18am PST
Oversight Board Meets as Puerto Rico Crisis Deepens Puerto Rico's "control" board meets January 28 as the island's financial crisis deepens. In a January 18 letter, the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico noted that the island can likely only afford to pay approximately 20% of the debt payments it owes over the next three years....
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2017 2:01pm PST
Ecuador Minister Discusses Need for UN Tax Body with Transparency Advocates Ecuador Foreign Minister Guillame Long will meet with civil society groups on Thursday to discuss tax avoidance, corruption and development....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2017 2:21pm PST
Puerto Rico Debt Law Could Apply to US Virgin Islands A US law passed to address Puerto Rico's debt crisis could apply retroactively to the US Virgin Islands, another heavily indebted US territory....
Posted: Fri, Dec 30, 2016 3:04pm PST
Bahamas: Another Victim of Caribbean Debt Crisis The ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgraded the Bahamas' debt to 'junk' status....
Posted: Fri, Dec 23, 2016 8:55am PST
Puerto Rico Oversight Board Moves Forward on Debt Restructuring Puerto Rico's "control" board sent a letter to current Governor Alejandro García Padilla and incoming Governor Ricardo Rossello stating areas for fiscal plan review and that debt restructuring talks are moving forward....
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2016 2:13pm PST
Despite New Jaguars in US, Feds Release Plan to Recover Endangered Jaguars Only in Mexico New Plan Fails to Guide Recovery in U.S. Southwest...
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2016 5:39pm PST
Amid Debt Crisis, Venezuela Fails to Supply Larger Bills Venezuela missed a self imposed deadline to release new higher-denomination bills designed to help its citizens amidst rising inflation....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2016 7:39am PST
Fidel Castro 1926-2016 This time it is true. The leader of La Primer Tierra Libre De Las Americas, the First Free Territory of the Americas, as Radio Havana Cuba describes Cuba, Fidel Castro, has died at age 90. The many previous announcements were the usual lies of the CIA which tried many times and failed to kill Fidel and destroy the Cuban Revolution....
Posted: Fri, Nov 25, 2016 11:12pm PST
Puerto Rico's Governor Refuses to Submit Revised Fiscal Plan Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro García Padilla declined a new federal oversight board's request that he submit an updated fiscal plan for the island....
Posted: Mon, Nov 21, 2016 1:07pm PST
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Neste 17 de outubro, dia em que William Ernst Wojcikiewicz, o William Chupacabra, completa mais um ano roubando dinheiro público, o Anonymous revela detalhes da conexão paranaense do maior esquema de corrupção de Santa Catarina....
Posted: Sun, Oct 16, 2016 6:07pm PDT
Puerto Rico Governor Submits Fiscal Plan to Oversight Board Puerto Rico's Governor is expected to submit a fiscal plan to the new Puerto Rico Financial Oversight and Management Board when it meets in New York....
Posted: Fri, Oct 14, 2016 7:46am PDT
Puerto Rico Oversight Board Holds First Meeting The newly created Puerto Rico economic oversight board holds its first meeting and will elect a chair on September 30 in New York City. Congress created the 7-member board as part of legislation to address the island's debt crisis. An independent group of academics, lawyers, finance experts and civic leaders formed a task force to monitor the oversight board and the progress of the Puerto Rico debt legislation....
Posted: Thu, Sep 29, 2016 7:50am PDT
Thousand of Activists Call for Protection of Silky Sharks at U.N. Wildlife Conference This week conservationists delivered a petition signed by 15,002 global citizens to the Presidents of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala calling on them to support greater protections for silky sharks at an upcoming world wildlife conservation meeting....
Posted: Wed, Sep 21, 2016 11:17am PDT
Lawsuit Launched to Protect West Coast Whales From Dying in Nets Conservation groups today filed a notice of intent to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service to protect endangered whales from mile-long drift gillnets and strings of sablefish pots off the West Coast. After two years of record reports of whales entangled in fishing gear off the West Coast — more than 60 in 2015 alone — 40 whales were reportedly entangled as of June 30, putting 2016 on pace to break records again. New information indicates that one humpback whale population that migrates f...
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2016 10:36am PDT
New Report Links Zika Virus to Steep Increase in Birth Defects in Brazil A new study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention connects the spreading Zika virus to a significant increase in birth defects in Brazil. According to the study, birth defects involving the nervous system nearly doubled after Zika arrived in Brazil, and researchers linked the virus' spread to poverty and living conditions in Northeast Brazil....
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2016 8:36am PDT
US and Puerto Rico Faith Groups Send Congress Recommendations on Island's Crisis Religious leaders in Puerto Rico and Jubilee USA urged a new Congressional task force to reform US laws to promote economic growth in Puerto Rico....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2016 1:26pm PDT
White House Announces Puerto Rico Oversight Board Membership The White House is announcing members of Puerto Rico's fiscal oversight board established as part of legislation to address the US territory’s debt crisis....
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2016 10:41am PDT
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