Akon I Could Have Restored Power to Puerto Rico Months Ago
The Internal Revenue Service has issued a notice extending the relief it provided previous year to residents of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands who evacuated or couldn't return because of the damage caused by Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
Workers are being pulled from Puerto Rico by the United States Army Corps of Engineers as part of a "responsible drawdown" despite the roughly 300,000 customers who still don't have electricity.
Local officials in the territory slammed the move, saying it was too soon for the companies to leave and that their work was incomplete.
After almost five months of living without electricity, there was no denying the joy of Maricao residents on Friday afternoon.
"Fluor was among the first companies to get here, about a month and a half ago", said González Otero.
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According to artist Akon, Puerto Rico could have had power in 30 days if Donald Trump's administration had allowed his organization to work its magic on the island. "They said the contract was over, and they left everything half-done. They are growing desperate".
Newsweek reports that Semonite said, "I am not satisfied that people in Puerto Rico should have to wait that much time for power".
Paul Biddinger, director of Harvard Chan School's Emergency Preparedness and Response Exercise Program and chief of the Division of Emergency Preparedness at Massachusetts General Hospital, said in a February 20, 2018 article in The American Prospect that he's anxious about cardiology patients, who use blood thinners and anti-arrhythmic drugs, which are often injected via an IV bag. "We wanted them to continue", González told the newspaper. "To energize as quickly as possible".
"Any material interruption to Puerto Rico's public services will only exacerbate outmigration of its population to the mainland and further deepen and prolong Puerto Rico's decade-old fiscal and economic crisis", he said.
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