All posts tagged "fiscal plan"

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  Gov’t to present budget by oversight board deadline

  SAN JUAN – The Puerto Rican government will comply with the April 30 deadline and present its draft budget for fiscal year 2018 to the fiscal control board, assured Elías Sánchez, the government’s representative to the entity created...

  • Posted April 20, 2017
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  Rivera Schatz: I don’t care about the board, thanks

  SAN JUAN – Puerto Rico Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz assured Monday that he would evaluate the governor’s budget not the fiscal board’s, and urged sectors with more resources, such as foreign companies, to contribute more to the...

  • Posted April 3, 2017
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  AGC-Puerto Rico Sets Eyes on Infrastructure

  By Philipe Schoene Roura and Eva Lloréns Vélez WASHINGTON – The Associated General Contractors Puerto Rico (AGC-PR) Chapter kicked off its mid-year meeting with remarks by AGC-PR President Francisco Díaz Massó who touted the importance of promoting the island...

  • Posted March 30, 2017
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  UPR students begin week-long strike

  SAN JUAN – When the clock struck midnight, groups of about 20 people blocked each of the six vehicle access-control and three secondary gates of the University of Puerto Rico’s Río Piedras campus to protest proposed multimillion-dollar...

  • Posted March 28, 2017
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  PDP sen. denounces ‘thousands’ of dismissals in Fiscal Plan

  Sen. Rossana López decried over $1.3 million in fiscal incongruences

  • Posted March 26, 2017
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  Fiscal Oversight Board sets rules for FY 2018 budget

  The government must generate $200M in savings

  • Posted March 25, 2017
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  Gov. Rosselló requests lowering UPR budget cut

  SAN JUAN – Gov. Ricardo Rosselló asked the fiscal control board on Monday to reduce from $450 million to $241 million the budget cut the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) would have to implement on or before the...

  • Posted March 20, 2017
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  Teachers Association: workdays should be reduced for legislators too

  Demands equal "sacrifice" from the Legislature

  • Posted March 18, 2017
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  Gov. Rosselló says UPR took $450M hit because it can generate revenue

  Gov. Rosselló says UPR can generate revenue to deal with $450 million cut

  • Posted March 16, 2017
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  Puerto Rico Secretary of State assures Christmas bonus won’t be eliminated

  SAN JUAN – Office of Management & Budget (OMB) Executive Director José Marrero was disavowed Thursday by Secretary of State William Villafañe an hour after he said the Christmas bonus for public employees would eventually be eliminated. “No. That...

  • Posted March 16, 2017