Puerto Rico’s federal oversight board approved a five-year strategy for the U.S. territory’s financial rehabilitation, all but ensuring a confrontation with Gov. Ricardo Rosselló over new austerity measures, WSJ Pro Bankruptcy reported.
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Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló said yesterday that he would not implement pension cuts and changes to employment rules sought by the bankrupt U.S. territory’s oversight board, Reuters reported. “We will not propose any bill that reduces vacation and/or sick leave,” Rosselló said, adding that it was “wrong and immoral to reduce the benefits” of public worker pensions.
The losing bidder on a deal to repair Puerto Rico’s storm-damaged power grid is disputing the contract award while residents grappled yesterday with a power outage that officials blamed on one of the winning firms, WSJ Pro Bankruptcy reported.
Puerto Rico’s governor announced a deal last month with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that they said would release billions of dollars in federal loans to the island government’s coffers, but there are doubts that will take place, according to a WSJ Pro Bankruptcy commentary.
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