DRIVERS FLOCK TO TAKE AMNESTY
From The San Juan Daily Star:
Hundreds of citizens showed up starting early Thursday morning at
Drivers Service Centers (CESCO by its Spanish acronym) across the
island to take advantage of the amnesty off ered by the Department
of Transportation and Public Works (DTOP) to pay off the AutoExpreso
fines at a much lower rate. The amnesty period began Thursday and
will extend through Oct. 5, Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation
Authority (HTA) spokesman Marimar Martínez said. Those drivers who
have received $100 fi nes for each time they passed through an Auto
Expreso toll station without any balance in their account will only
have to pay $15 per infraction plus the cost of the tolls.
PR, INVESTORS ENLIST EX-IMF OFFICIALS
From The Wall Street Journal:
The Puerto Rico government and the hedge funds that own its bonds are
turning to former International Monetary Fund officials to help resolve
a growing debt crisis that may require a restructuring more akin to
Greece than a troubled city like Detroit.
The move comes as Puerto Rico is in talks with the funds and other inves-
tors to borrow up to about $3 billion in new bonds to replenish its nearly
empty coffers. The commonwealth has more than $70 billion in debt, inclu-
ding that of its agencies such as the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority,
or Prepa, which is in restructuring talks with creditors ahead of a Wednes-
day deadline to extend some payments.
COPS CHARGED WITH KIDNAPPING, ROBBERY
From Fox News Latino:
Three police officers were charged with aggravated kidnapping, robbery and
unlawfully entering the home of a Dominican construction worker and they
are in custody on bail of $750,000 each, the Puerto Rican police reported
Sunday. Authorities in a communique said that Joaquin Torres Cortina, Raul
Rivero Ruiz and Gabriel Rivera Pagan are under arrest. The trio were repor-
ted by two colleagues - a newly graduated officer and his mentor - for their
alleged activities on April 7 and they are scheduled to appear before Judge
Alfrida Tomey on April 23.
PR DEMS SPEAK OUT ON HILLARY CANDIDACY
A joint statement by Puerto Rico Democratic Party President Roberto Prats
Palerm, Democratic National Committeeman Kenneth McClintock Hernández,
and attorneys José Alfredo Hernández Mayoral and Francisco Domenech:
"The Puerto Rican Democratic leadership welcomes with open arms the announ-
cement made today by who will surely be the next U.S. president, Hillary Clin-
ton. In the history of the U.S. there has probably never been a presidential can-
didate with the preparation and experience that today, even more than in 2008,
Hillary Clinton has."
MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY DETECTED IN PR
From Fresh Plaza:
Puerto Rico is readying control and eradication protocols after the first-
ever detection on the island of the Mediterranean fruit fly, one of the
world’s most destructive agricultural pests. Hector Cordero, president of
the Puerto Rico Farmers Association, told Efe that the initiative is a
response to the appearance in the southwestern municipality of Cabo Rojo
of two Mediterranean flies, long present in the nearby Dominican Republic.
The Puerto Rico government is receiving advice from the U.S. Department
of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service on control and era-
dication measures.
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