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Corporación de Industrias de Ciegos, Personas Mentalmente Retardadas y Otras Personas Incapacitadas: CIRIO: Industrial development: Credit Unions Supervision and Insurance Corporation: PRCUSIC: Corporación para la Supervisión y Seguros de Cooperativas de Puerto Rico: COSSEC: Insurance: Economic Development Bank: EDB: Banco de Desarrollo ...
The Puerto Rico Commission on Public Service — Spanish: Comisión de Servicio Público (CSP) — is one of Puerto Rico's oldest regulatory bodies whose jurisdiction has changed over the years. The CSP currently regulates the retail sale of natural gas, trucking, and jitneys , among other regulatory functions.
The department is an executive department of the Government of Puerto Rico. It was created in 1931 but only gained formal recognition when the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico was approved in 1952. Its first secretary was Prudencio Rivera. The incumbent is Carlos Saavedra Gutiérrez.
The Authority is governed by a five-member board of directors, including three appointed by the Governor, one (attorney Luis Berríos-Amadeo) selected by President of the Senate of Puerto Rico, Thomas Rivera Schatz, and another, former San Juan mayor Hernán Padilla, selected by then Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Jenniffer ...
Alternative civilian service, also called alternative services, civilian service, non-military service, and substitute service, is a form of national service performed in lieu of military conscription for various reasons, such as conscientious objection, inadequate health, or political reasons.
The Federation of Private Services (Spanish: Federación de Servicios Privados, FSP) was a trade union representing workers in various service industries in Spain.. The union was established in 1984, as the Federation of Diverse Activities, and it affiliated to the Workers' Commissions.
The Socialist Party (Spanish: Partido Socialista, PS), also known as Socialista Obrero (Socialist Worker's), was a pro-statehood political party in Puerto Rico, that also contemplated independence in the case that entry into the American Union was denied by Congress. [1]
The Puerto Rico Department of Housing, created in 1972, [9] succeeded the Urban Renewal and Housing Corporation, or Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda (CRUV, its Spanish acronym), [10] which was created in the late 1950s to succeed the Puerto Rico Housing Authority, created by Gov. Luis Muñoz Marín and headed by Juan César Cordero ...