All posts by Center for Investigative Journalism

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  Current Transparency and Open Data Laws in Puerto Rico Should Have Never Been Approved

  The Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI, in Spanish) was invited to the public hearing held last Tuesday and we testified to expose some of the problems of access to information that journalists specifically face when we ask...

  • Posted April 13, 2021
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  Dispute Within the Pierluisi Administration Over Climate Change Committee

  Disagreements came to light during a public hearing to amend the Puerto Rico Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation and Resilience Act.

  • Posted April 13, 2021
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  Lack of Funding Delays the Integration of 18 Years of Seismic Data Into Puerto Rico’s Earthquake Hazard Maps and the Building Code

  US territories, such as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, as well as the states of Hawaii and Alaska, have not updated their seismic hazard maps for more than a decade and are last in line with...

  • Posted March 3, 2021
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  LUMA Attorneys Charge More Than $1,000 an Hour and Consultants Get Paid Nearly $5M to Write Plans

  The outsourcing of companies that come mainly from the US has been the norm in the first six months of billing after the agreement to privatize the electricity grid.

  • Posted February 3, 2021
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  Never-Ending Wait for Thousands of Puerto Ricans Who Filed Claims in Bankruptcy Proceeding

  The Fiscal Control Board has objected to more than 100,000 claims, mainly from Puerto Ricans who navigate blindly through the process. Two and a half years after submitting their monetary claims, it is still uncertain if they...

  • Posted January 28, 2021
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  Puerto Rico Excluded From Trump’s White House COVID-19 Task Force Reports

  By Jeniffer Wiscovitch and Omaya Sosa Pascual  The White House COVID Task Force has been conducting state-by-state weekly analyses of the status of the pandemic and has issued reports with specific recommendations to all state governments for more than six...

  • Posted January 28, 2021
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  Rincón May Lose a Beach to a Federal Project Aimed to Protect Infrastructure in the Zone

  Public comment period for USACE proposal ended Jan. 6

  • Posted January 14, 2021
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  Moving Maps: Puerto Ricans Struggle for Their Place in Philadelphia

  The diaspora faces inequity and gentrification in the second US city with the largest Puerto Rican population.

  • Posted December 1, 2020
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  Will LUMA Keep Its Prize?

  The company that will run the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s network lobbied in Washington and landed a contract with minimum requirements for the reliability of the electricity system.

  • Posted October 28, 2020
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  Geologists in Puerto Rico have been unlicensed during seismic emergency period due to government inefficiency

  Their advice has been needed several times since the beginning of 2020

  • Posted October 14, 2020