School District of Lee County coming to Puerto Rico

CORRECTION: Please note there has been a change in location for 
the March 6 event. The event will now be held at the Hilton Ponce 
Golf & Casino Resort in Ponce.

Press Release

District hiring for the 2017-18 school year

FORT MYERS, Fla. (Feb. 3, 2017) – The School District of Lee County is 

coming to Puerto Rico to speak with prospective educators during a series

 of hiring events offered March 6, 8 and 9. Those interested in pursuing a 

career in education can interview with representatives from the District via 

pre-scheduled interviews at the University of Puerto Rico in Ponce, the Uni-

versity of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras and the Hyatt House in San Juan. Inte-

rested applicants can apply for an interview at www.leeschoolspuertorico.

com.

On March 6, interviews will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the University 

of Puerto Rico in Ponce in Building F, Room F-1. On March 8, interviews 

will take place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the University of Puerto Rico in Rio 

Piedras in Room 368 of the Faculty of Education building. On March 9, int-

erview opportunities will be available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Hyatt 

House in San Juan.

The School District of Lee County is currently hiring to fill a range of tea-

ching positions, and representatives from the District will be in attendance 

to conduct interviews and hire educators for the upcoming 2017-18 school

year. The recruitment events are open to current teachers and graduating 

college students. To qualify for an interview, candidates must hold at least 

one of the following: a Professional teaching certificate from Puerto Rico, 

a Florida Statement of Eligibility, be a current College of Education stud-

ent or hold a bachelor’s degree.

The District offers a competitive and comprehensive compensation plan 

for its employees, and provides teachers with access to support and reso-

urces that promote success. The starting compensation package of $52,984 

encompasses salary, medical coverage and life insurance, pension and in-

vestment plan contributions, and social security and Medicare employer

contributions. Relocation reimbursement is also available to assist with 

moving to the area. Additional benefits and earning opportunities are also 

available via advanced degree supplement, summer school, athletic coa-

ching and more. Upon hire, a personal benefits selection process will be 

made available to eligible employees.

For more information on applying to the School District of Lee County, 

call 239-337-8640 or email careers@leeschools.net.

About The School District of Lee County: Lee County Public Schools is 

the ninth-largest district in Florida and the 33^rd-largest district in the United

States. The District educates more than 93,000 students in grades K-12 and

is a model for others in the state and around the nation. With approximately 

10,000 full- and part-time employees, the District is one of the county’s lar-

gest employers. As the District builds new schools and renovates and exp-

ands existing facilities to accommodate the unprecedented growth experien-

ced in the last several years, the District has become one of Southwest Flo-

rida’s largest developers.

UTILITY LABORERS WANTED IN MISSOURI

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Work Location: Central and Eastern Missouri – United States

Compensation: Competitive hourly rate / Overtime after 40 hrs.

• Lodging provided for duration of project and travel provided during work days to 

   and from job site(s). Roundtrip airfare will be provided for those staying the duration

   of the project (July – December).

Purpose of job:

• To prepare utility poles for Ground Line inspection and treatment.

Key Knowledge, Skills and abilities:

• Knowledge of all safety policies and procedures

• Understanding of all components attached to utility poles

• Ability to walk up to 10 miles per day through rough terrain

• Ability to excavate and backfill dirt around utility poles by means of hand digging

• Ability to read and follow paper maps

• Ability to work as a team and follow foreman’s orders

• Ability to work overtime when workload increases from time to time

Description:

Ground Line Laborers excavate dirt around base of utility poles in preparation for Ground 

Line inspection and treatment. Laborers manually dig and refill earth material for each utility 

pole on given power circuits. Laborers generally work 40-60 hours a week. A typical work 

week is Monday through Friday, 7:00 am- 5:00 pm with a 1 hour lunch break, however the 

ability to work OT is a must.

For more information or to apply, contact Patricia at 615-915-3119 or 

patricia@telforcegroup.com.

Trabajador de utilidad

Lugar de trabajo: Central y del este de Missouri, Estados Unidos

Compensación: Salario competitivo y horas extras después de 40 horas.

• Alojamiento para la duración del proyecto y viaje durante días de trabajo y del sitio 

de trabajo. Se proveerá pasaje aéreo de ida y vuelta para los que se quedan la duración

del proyecto (julio – diciembre).

Propósito del trabajo:

• Para preparar postes para tratamiento e inspección de la línea de tierra.

  Principales conocimientos, habilidades y capacidades:

• Conocimiento de las políticas de seguridad y procedimientos

• Comprensión de todos los componentes conectados a postes para uso general

• Capacidad de caminar hasta 10 millas por día a través del terreno áspero

• Capacidad para excavar y rellenar suciedad alrededor de postes por medio de la 

   excavación de la mano

• Capacidad de leer y seguir el papel de los mapas

• Capacidad para trabajar en equipo y seguir las órdenes del capataz

• Capacidad de trabajar tiempo extra cuando la carga de trabajo aumenta de vez en 

  cuando

Descripción:

Tierra línea obreros excavar suciedad alrededor de la base de postes para uso general 

en preparación para la inspección de la línea de tierra y tratamiento. Trabajadores ma-

nualmente cavan y llenan material de tierra de cada poste de utilidad en dado circuitos 

de potencia. Obreros trabajan generalmente 40-60 horas a la semana. Una semana típica 

de trabajo es del lunes al viernes de 7:00 -17:00, con un almuerzo de 1 hora romper, sin 

embargo la capacidad de trabajo OT es una necesidad.

Para mas informacion o para aplicar, contacte a Patricia al 615-915-3119 o via 

email: patricia@telforcegroup.com.

Puerto Rico Job Spotlight For May 27, 2015

Click on the links for full descriptions and to apply. The Puerto
Rico Monitor has no association with any of the employers listed
and is not responsible for the accuracy of the listed jobs. The
position is listed first, followed by the employer's name and the
location.

Administrative Assistant // Atlantis Health // San Juan

Assembler III // Baxter // Aibonito

Bilingual Receptionist // Company  Confidential // San Juan

Cashier // Cheesecake Factory // San Juan

Desktop Support Tech // Compucom USA // Caguas

Field Sales Representative // FIS VCI // San Juan

Inspector // Intertek // Guayanilla 

Part Time Hotel Front Desk Agent // Company Confidential // San Juan

Pharmacist (Bilingual) // Humana // San Juan

Phlebotomist // Metro. Detention Center // Guaynabo

Planner/Scheduler // Spartan Staffing // Puerto Real

Production Coordinator // Spectraforce Technologies Inc // Añasco

Sales Trainer // Wyndham Vacation Ownership // Rio Grande

Sr Enginering Spec // Medtronic // Humacao

Technical Project & Development Manager // Experis // Guaynabo

Job Spotlight For May 8

Click on the links for full descriptions and to apply. The Puerto  Rico Monitor
has no association with any of the employers listed and is not responsible for
the accuracy of the listed jobs. The position is listed first, followed by the em-
ployer's name and the location.


Administrative Assistant I // Spectraforce Technologies Inc // Juncos

Administrative Support Assistant // US Army // Fort Buchanan

Leasing Coordinator // Cushman & Wakefield // San Juan

Senior Compliance Officer // Citi // Puerto Rico

Pharmacy Technician Trainee // CVS // Fajardo

Transfer Quality Engineer // Company Confidential // Fajardo

Assistant Manager - Food & Beverage // Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. // Dorado

Part-Time Driver // Avis Budget Group // San Juan

Coordinator Hotels // Booking.Com // San Juan

Tax Manager // Walgreens // Guaynabo

Job Spotlight For May 6, 2015

This new regular feature will offer listings for selected English-language
employment postings in Puerto Rico. Click on the links for full descrip-
tions and to apply. The Puerto Rico Monitor has no association with any
of the employers listed and is not responsible for the accuracy of the
listed jobs. The position is listed first, followed by the employer's name
and the location.


Mechanic // Mylan // Caguas, PR

Quality Assurance Inspector // Company Confidential // Mayagüez, PR

Administrative Assistant A2 // Oracle // San Juan, PR

English Teacher // Think Results // Ponce, PR

Part-Time GRE Instructor // KTP Graduate // San Juan, PR

Utilities Supervisor // Kelly Services // Caguas, PR

Sr Associate QA // Amgen // Juncos, PR

Taxi Dispatcher // Caribbean Temporary Svcs // Carolina, PR

Quality Leader 5 // GE // Arecibo, PR

Maintenance Supervisor // DDR // Hatillo, PR

Custodial Worker // Fresenius // Yauco, PR


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Puerto Rico News Digest For May 4, 2015

PUERTO RICO LEGALIZES MEDICAL POT

From RT:

The governor of Puerto Rico has signed an executive order to allow
marijuana to be permitted for medical uses. Alejandro Garcia Padilla
endorsed the move, which will come into immediate effect, following
a lengthy public debate on the US territory. Governor Padilla men-
tioned that Puerto Rico’s health secretary will have three months to
file a report about how the executive order will be implemented. The
order will also mean that some or all controlled substances that de-
rive from the cannabis plant will be permitted for medical use. "We're
taking a significant step in the area of health that is fundamental
to our development and quality of life," Garcia said in a statement,
cited by AP. "I am sure that many patients will receive appropriate
treatment that will offer them new hope."

PR SCIENTIST SAFE AFTER NEPAL QUAKE

From The San Juan Daily Star:

A young Puerto Rican scientist whose family did not know anything
about him after a strong earthquake hit Nepal last weekend was
reported alive Thursday. Secretary of State David Bernier said
Francis H. González “contacted his family and is alive and well.”
“We are very happy,” Bernier said. The family had been appealing
through social networks and the media for the past week for any
information about González. The earthquake that hit Nepal killed
thousands, with the death toll nearing 6,000 as of Thursday.

WATER CONSERVATION URGED AMID DROUGHT

From Caribbean Business:

Government officials are urging people to conserve water amid a
record-breaking heat wave. The Puerto Rico Aqueduct & Sewer
Authority president said water levels are extremely low for the
season and noted that summer has not even started.

SURVEY: JOBS ARE OFF ISLAND

From News Is My Business:

A recent survey conducted by the Universia-Trabajando.com Labor Co-
mmunity revealed that more than half, or 69 percent, of respondents
from Puerto Rico believe that there are more job opportunities out-
side the island. Of the 593 participants, 46 percent think that
those options are in North America, particularly in the U.S. main-
land, 30 percent looks to Europe, and 11 percent to South America.

SUN COUNTRY AIRLINES BEGINS PR FLIGHTS

From NBC 2:

Service from Fort Myers to San Juan began Sunday according to airport
authorities at Southwest Florida International Airport. The nonstop
service to San Juan Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (SJU) in
Puerto Rico got underway officially Sunday with two weekly flights,
Sundays and Thursdays. This was supposed to be a test run, however
there was so much positive feedback, Sun Country decided to make this
a permanent run right away.

Puerto Rico News Digest For March 25, 2015

PR LOSES 80K MANUFACTURING JOBS IN 15 YEARS

From Fox News Latino:

Puerto Rico lost nearly 80,000 manufacturing jobs between 1997 and
2012, according to the latest Economic Census compiled by the Uni-
versity of Puerto Rico's Center for Census Information. Jose Cara-
ballo Cueto, the director of the center, told Efe that most of the jobs
were lost as a result of the expiration of a provision in the U.S. tax
code known as Section 936. That regulation offered U.S. companies
the prospect of tax-free income if they established operations in
Puerto Rico.

DOUBLE MURDER ON MARTINEZ NADAL EXPRESSWAY

As reported by El Nuevo Dia, a double murder took place last night
at midnight on Rafael Martínez Nadal Expressway, near the exit for
the Tren Urbano. Unknown assailants shot two men to death and left
a third in critical condition. The victims were in a green 1997 Geo
Tracker. Police are investigating, and are looking into whether the
incident started as a car to car shooting.

HIGLER KILLER OUT, WEARING MONITOR

Gerardo De La Paz, the man accused of killing Dutch globetrotter Laurens

Higler in a hit and run accident, has been released by the authorities after

he posted bail, which had been set at $20,000. De La Paz has to wear a

monitoring bracelet. The 49-year-old Puerto Rican man resides in the

continental U.S. and had been visiting the island since December. De La

Paz has been charged with negligent homicide and leaving the scene of

an accident.

GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE SEEKS UFO SUPPORT

From The San Juan Daily Star:

Ufologist Reynaldo Ríos, who is running for governor of Puerto Rico
in the next election, said he wants to build a “UFO landing strip”
on the island, something he believes is the solutionto Puerto Rico’s
economic problems. In that sense, he acknowledged that while he has
been mocked because of his ideas, other countries take the idea of
the existence of aliens seriously. “I want to create the UFO airport,
the project that was ignored in 2005, and I think it will help the
island get out of the economic crisis,” he told Foro Noticioso. “If
I run for elective office, the idea will be taken more seriously.”

PONCE DEFENDS WORK HOUR CUTS

From Caribbean Business:

Faced with the possibility of dismissing 1,200 employees, Ponce
administrator Eliezer Velázquez defended measures taken by the Mayor
María "Mayita" Meléndez in light of Puerto Rico’s economic condition.
"I want to make it clear that, given the economic situation facing
the island, in the town of Ponce we have done what we have had to
do," Velázquez said. He explained that, like Ponce, other municipa-
lities have reduced working hours, contracts and salaries as well as
municipal expenditures to bring finances into order.


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Puerto Rico News Digest For January 28, 2015

MASTURBATING COP HAS BEEN SUSPENDED

From The Daily Mail:

Police in Puerto Rico have suspended a female police officer  after photos
of her performing a sex act in uniform ended up being leaked to fellow
officers. According to a police insider,  the images were taken by a male
colleague at the police station and were posted onto social media. They
said that the young woman, Cynthia Marrero Pomales, 29, was serving in
Carolina. She reportedly uploaded the pictures herself on social media
although it is understood that she had not intended for them to be shared
outside of a small private circle of friends.

PR EXPANDS TAX DEAL TO OWN EMIGRANTS

From Forbes:

Puerto Rico’s Acts 20 & 22, tax incentive laws aimed at luring wealthy
American investors to move there and at reviving the Island’s economy,
are celebrating their third anniversary this month. Now, the Island is
trying to build on this momentum by expanding who can use the tax
breaks; one amendment  is aimed at enticing successful Puerto Ricans
who have left the Island to return.

Puerto Rico Senate Bill 864 increases the potential impact of Act 22
by expanding who qualifies for the tax break. Prior to this legislation,
Act 22 was only applicable to new migrants to Puerto Rico who had
not been residents for the 15 year period before the Act went into
effect in January 2012. That period has now been reduced from 15
to 6 years. That means anyone who left the Island before 2006 can
now apply for the Act 20/22 tax breaks.

COURT URGED TO REVERSE GAY MARRIAGE RULING

From SDGLN.COM:

Lambda Legal on Monday filed a brief urging the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the First Circuit to overturn a lower court ruling
dismissing Conde-Vidal v. Garcia-Padilla, the lawsuit seeking to
end the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s discriminatory ban on
marriage for LGBT couples.

“The District Court ruling in October was contrary to Supreme
Court precedent and stands in stark contrast against the avalanche
of court rulings over the past 18 months finding marriage bans
like Puerto Rico’s to be discriminatory and unconstitutional,”
said Omar Gonzalez-Pagan, Staff Attorney for Lambda Legal.

LEGISLATURE TO REDUCE TOLL FINES

From The San Juan Daily Star:

The island House and Senate passed diff erent versions of a bill
Monday that will reduce thefi nes imposed on drivers for passing
through highway toll plazas without paying and establish an
amnesty that will allow drivers who owe large sums in fines for
doing so to pay them. Puerto Rico’s Department of Transportation
and Public Works (DTOP) began this year to enforce the law that
imposes $100 fi nes for passing through the toll plazas without
paying. Citizens were given 30 days to pay the amount they owe in
tolls to erase the fi ne. Nonetheless, many citizens have com-
plained that they were not informed in writing as required by law
that they have fines. Others said they did not deserve the fines
because they recharge their AutoExpreso accounts every month.
AutoExpreso is the name of the island highway toll collection
system.

PR LABOR FORCE SHRINKS FURTHER IN DECEMBER

From News Is My Business:

Puerto Rico’s labor force had 25,000 fewer members in December,
when compared to the same month in 2013, which could account for
the lower unemployment rate announced by the Labor Department
Tuesday. According to the agency, the December jobless rate stood
at 13.7 percent, representing the “lowest rate for that month  since
2008,” when the unemployment rate stood at 15.5 percent.

Puerto Rico News Digest For January 20, 2015

POLITICAL PRISONER GONZALEZ CLAUDIO BACK IN PR

Photo from: Claridad

From The San Juan Daily Star:

Political prisoner Norberto González Claudio, who was charged
in the 1983 robbery of over $7 million from a Wells Fargo truck,
the largest heist in U.S. history, arrived in Puerto Rico late
last week to the delight of hundreds of pro-independence supporters
after serving time in a Florida prison. González Claudio , 69, was
sentenced in 2012 by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello
in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years
of supervised release, for his involvement in a 1983 armored truck
robbery in West Hartford, Conn., and for his illegal possession of
a machine gun at the time of his arrest in May 2011.

CHEAP OIL MUDDIES PREPA RECOVERY

From Reuters:

Tumbling oil prices may offer short-term relief to Puerto Rico's
struggling electric power authority PREPA, but could embolden
bondholders and muddy the utility's path to a long-term fix.
Crude's slide may give bondholders more sway in negotiating a
restructuring of the utility because a sharp drop in its fuel
costs gives them less reason to accept reduced debt repayments.
While fixing PREPA is seen as a key step in solving the troubled
island's debt problems, cheaper oil could create the perception
that the power authority may not need a broad, and expensive,
overhaul.

VENEZUELA FOOD COMPANY COMES TO PR

From News Is My Business:

Industrias Alimenticias Alto de San Juan, owned by two Venezuelan
companies, announced Monday plans to manufacture its products in
Puerto Rico.

With an initial investment of $400,000, the company has committed
to the creation of 200 jobs once the project is fully operational.
This is the fourth industrial development project announced by Gov.
Alejandro García-Padilla’s administration during the past two weeks.
The payroll associated with the new jobs reaches about $3 million
annually, Gov. García-Padilla said during the ribbon-cutting at
the plant.

DOM REP POULTRY EXPORTS TO PR SET TO EXPLODE

From Dominican Today:

The Government aims to spur poultry and egg exports to Puerto Rico
to supply of meals to students from that island, Agro Bank adminis-
trator Carlos Segura affirmed Monday.

The official said among the agreements signed by president Danilo
Medina and Puerto Rico governor Alejandro García figure taking
advantage of domestic production, once the country obtains the
required certifications. He said the country’s installed capacity
meets Puerto Rico’s market and can double poultry production,
without expanding current facilities. He said the country currently
produces 15 million chickens and 150 million eggs.