Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

An outage that a LUMA Energy spokesperson said could have been triggered by sabotage left 900,000 customers without power on Thursday.

Through the first nine months of the fiscal year, Sales and Use Tax collections are up 30% from the year earlier.

In the bill the governor signed, lawmakers will not approve a plan of adjustment with cuts to pensions, which the current proposed plan includes.

Biden called on Congress to amend the Social Security Act to include Puerto Rican residents for benefits. The Oversight Board has said the benefits would lead to $1 billion more per year to island residents.

If Congress does not act on the island’s Medicaid funding by the end of September, the funding shortfall would force officials to drop an estimated 800,000 people from the rolls.

Court gives Senate president short deadline to respond to legal inquiries and experts do not see a strong case.

The board plans to pick an operator for PREPA's electrical generation in second half of this year.

While its budget does not include debt service, the executive director said she anticipated amending it in the coming fiscal year once the plan of adjustment is finalized.

Long-term economic stability is not sustainable, economists say, after federal aid dries up.

The speaker of the territory's House of Representatives says its vote is controlling and the board will have to go to court to overrule it.

The board is allowing the legislature an opportunity to give input even though the board retains control over the budget.

The board also submitted an amended plan of adjustment and disclosure statement for the central government bond deal.

The board is also considering a measure the House passed to undo board-supported labor reforms.

Assured Guaranty and National Public Finance Guarantee gave their support to Highways and Transportation Authority and Convention Center District Authority revenue bond deals affecting $4.6 billion, solidifing their support for the central government deal.

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said the bill was unconstitutional since it undermined contractual obligations with LUMA.

Observers say it is the beginning of the end of the central government bankruptcy.

Judge Laura Taylor Swain says they can be dealt with in the process of confirming the central government plan of adjustment.

The report found that the White House Office of Management and Budget played a key role in prodding HUD to add additional requirements for Puerto Rico to access the disaster aid.

While the 2020 number was down from the 2010 figure, it was still almost 10% greater than the Puerto Rico Oversight Board's estimate.

After statehood, Puerto Rico's legacy bonds would likely retain their current status, but analysts are mixed on how the market would receive new debt.