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Despite the Office of Management and Budget (in Spanish, la Oficina de Gerencia y Presupuesto) recommending the repeal of the original law which created the "Special Communities of Puerto Rico" (Comunidades especiales de Puerto Rico), [11] in early 2017, Governor Ricardo Rosselló created the new government agency, ODSEC, to continue the work ...
A lookout post was set up in El Vigia to warn the city of the need of help in the Playa harbor, a port settlement at the time. By the 1830s, la Playa had one of the best roads in Puerto Rico, connecting the shore settlement to the city proper, and it was the center of Ponce's commercial activity.
Rincón (Spanish pronunciation:) is a popular beach town and municipality of Puerto Rico founded in 1771 by Don Luis de Añasco, who previously founded Añasco in 1733. It is located in the Western Coastal Valley, west of Añasco and Aguada.
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 Dr. Hernán Padilla, selected by then Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives ...
Carolina (/ ˌ k ær oʊ ˈ l iː n ə /; Spanish pronunciation: [kaɾoˈlina]) is a city and municipality on the northeastern coastal plain of Puerto Rico, immediately east of San Juan and Trujillo Alto, north of Gurabo and Juncos, and west of Canóvanas and Loíza.
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Office of Emergency Management - City of San Juan - Weapons of Mass Destruction - Emergency Response truck in 2008 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The agency coordinates tsunami exercises with ham radio operators. [4] Abner Gomez was the agency's managing director when Hurricane Maria hit and knocked out power to the entire island, [5] but resigned ...
Trujillo Alto (Spanish pronunciation: [tɾuˈxiʝo ˈalto]) is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico.Located on the northeastern costal plain on the boundary between the Northern Karst Belt and Sierra de Luquillo, it is north of Caguas and Gurabo, southeast of San Juan, and west of Carolina.