Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here Configurations capable of achieving very thin thicknesses Italy – Comerio Ercole is working to enhance the performance of its equipment across a series of metrics Italian rubber machinery maker said in its latest monthly newsletter The programme has included the recent completion of testing on a special calendering plant for rubber sheets based on a ‘miniduplex’ configuration The four-roll set-up is capable of providing a rubber thickness of only 0.075 mm for each rubber sheet according to the company’s report issued 25 Nov Employing a ‘hydroplus’ configuration the system makes it “possible to easily obtain productions of very thin thicknesses,” the machinery maker stated Another development is the ‘shuttle CE’ winding system: a configuration for automatic roll change at the set length without slowing down the calender and without operator intervention The ‘shuttle CE’ winding section consists of two identical stations on a mobile platform While the station in operation is located under the cross-cutting unit the other station is located off the axis of the calendering line – on the opposite side of the station in operation Roller-changes for both the product and the liner can be done on either side of the calendering line in the offline position Loading and unloading can be done with a dedicated crane system or a factory-integrated automatic system A subscription to European Rubber Journal includes: Already a subscriber? 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Puerto Rican mayors exchange program organized by the Open Society Foundation Regions like Comerío were most affected and last to be rehabilitated after the hurricane gave mayor Santiago $40,000 to retrofit a community center to be self-sustaining and stormproof Hernandez also translated the Mayor Santiago’s remarks for Worldview Puerto Rico — Maria de Jesus Medina stands in her nightgown and looks across at her soaked belongings – a couch and loveseat clothes and boxes of personal items – all destroyed by a hurricane When torrential rains poured down on this center-eastern region of Puerto Rico this week sending muddy water into Medina's first-floor apartment and those of her neighbors told USA TODAY in Spanish on Wednesday HURRICANE FIONA LEAVES A 'NIGHTMARE' IN PUERTO RICO: The power is out. Homes and roads are flooded. 'IT'S UNACCEPTABLE THAT ... NOTHING HAS FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGED': 5 years later, Puerto Ricans are still struggling with Hurricane Maria's devastation. Days after Fiona hit the territory as a Category 1 hurricane, more than a million people remained without power on Wednesday, said Keith Turi, FEMA assistant administrator for recovery. And the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority said about 45% of its subscribers were still without water service More than 1,000 people were in shelters early Wednesday vice president of operations and logistics for the Red Cross "That just gives you a sense of the number of people that continue to be displaced by the storm," Kieserman said As reports of emergency health needs continue to grow Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra declared a public health emergency Wednesday aimed at helping Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries Public health officials in Puerto Rico are working to ensure residents who use electricity-dependent care Some health care centers were running on generators and one cancer hospital had to transfer patients because of power issues executive director of the non-profit Foundation for Puerto Rico's Center for Strategic Innovation and a former candidate for governor "(People) are very scared that they're not going to be able to use their medical equipment or refrigerate medications," Lúgaro told USA TODAY Flooding in Comerío damaged a small refrigerator where Vilches Now she has nowhere to keep it and hasn't had a dose in days Medina and her daughter said they are running low on food and potable water so it's difficult to make a trip to get ice Medina said she moved to the apartment in the Ariel neighborhood in what was supposed to be a temporary relocation after Hurricane María destroyed her house further up the hill She said officials told her she would be in the apartment for 4 to 5 months "They moved me down here into a flood zone," Medina said HOW TO HELP: Mutual aid, nonprofits help Puerto Rico recover from Hurricane Fiona Floodwaters also entered the home of Nereida Rivera some 30 miles south of the island's capital of San Juan She passed the storm in her daughter's home up the hill and came back after as her family helped her clear out mud "What affects you emotionally is knowing how you had your home versus how you find it," Rivera said in Spanish "You get sad because you lost things of value." is water so she and her husband can cook for their 8-year-old grandson Rivera has a gasoline generator she runs for a few hours a day But buying gas every day is a significant expense – one of many that people face after a disaster.  You have to buy canned food because other food goes bad Municipal officials still haven't been able to assess the damages to the main water treatment plant in Comerío Mayor José "Josian" Santiago told USA TODAY They are still waiting for the floodwaters to recede enough to inspect pipes that draw water from Rio de la Plata.  tanker trucks have to make a three-hour roundtrip to a neighboring municipality to fill up with water and bring it back to neighborhoods in Comerío Each tanker truck has enough water for a few dozen homes and the principal problems are lack of potable water and electricity," Santiago said in Spanish people have used up the water they had stored." ADDRESSING PUERTO RICO'S GENTRIFICATION: Bad Bunny debuts 'El Apagón' music video amid Hurricane Fiona In downtown Comerío, José Iván Romero about half of a block from the banks of Rio de la Plata the river rose within feet of the front door of his business.  "Thank God it didn't come into the pharmacy," he said in Spanish Romero each day takes medications that need to be kept cold to his home in San Juan He keeps the pharmacy's lights on with a generator But he needs to shut it down to cool off every 90 minutes Romero also has a farm in the Paloma neighborhood of Comerío He estimated he lost around 20,000 plantain plants to wind damage during the hurricane It's the third time his farm has suffered catastrophic losses The first was during Hurricane Maria five years ago Then came the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown restrictions that closed off most of the outlets for selling his produce Hurricane Fiona may prove the last straw for the farm Contributing: Grace Hauck and Chris Kenning Email data journalist Kevin Crowe here or follow him on Twitter at @kcrowebasspro Support NYU Law As senior vice president and general counsel of Clayco Carmen Hernandez ’87 regularly works on multimillion-dollar building projects is a personal one: bringing relief to her home town in Puerto Rico in the wake of last September’s Hurricane Maria a category five storm that devastated the island and left millions without power Hernandez went to elementary school in Comerio located in rugged mountain terrain one hour south of San Juan and great-grandparents were all born in the town and all got married in the same local church Although Hernandez moved to Massachusetts with her mother when she was 15 she made yearly trips to visit her relatives in Comerio it was very frustrating not to be able to receive any news about them but there were no communications coming out of the Island for the first two weeks,” she says Hearing a radio interview with Comerio Mayor Josian Santiago Hernandez learned that the flooding River Plata had damaged more than 1,500 homes out of the 7000 in the town All the residents were fending for themselves,” she says “Even though the military had dropped off some MREs [Meals what they really needed was rice and beans and drinking water.” Hernandez and her sister Evelyn decided to set up their own relief efforts The sisters donated $25,000 to the effort and set up a GoFundMe page to invite friends to help match their contributions When Clayco CEO Bob Clark heard about Hernandez’s initiative he volunteered the company’s plane to help  She and her sister loaded the plane with 700 pounds of medical supplies They also arranged to purchase a container of rice and cases of water from a local distributor on the island as part of what she describes as “Phase one” of their relief efforts “It is so refreshing to support a cause where the person who is asking you to donate was going to be on the ground doing the relief work,” says Tony Schofield although he adds that he wasn’t surprised that Hernandez would do the job herself Schofield says that he learned of Hernandez’s adventurous streak when he “met Carmen in her office for the first time and noticed that she had a big Harley motorcycle emblem on her wall.” Hernandez participates in an annual three-day 220-mile bicycle ride through the Northeast to raise money for the Young Survivor Coalition an organization that supports women under 40 who are diagnosed with breast cancer Schofield also notes that Hernandez is deeply involved in the Clayco Foundation a nonprofit that supports medical research as well as the company’s Construction Career Development Initiative which helps underserved students gain exposure to different kinds of jobs in the design and construction industry with the support of Clayco and her colleagues Hernandez traveled to Comerio for five days “We were among the first to arrive on the ground in Comerio,” Hernandez says My family was lucky—everyone was generally okay and in good health We just focused on the people who lost their homes and were in dire need.” Phase two of her relief efforts came a little over a month later but no homes had electricity and few had water service The town’s 1,700 children were unable to go to school The Hernandez sisters created a toy drive—“to bring a little bit of holiday joy,” Hernandez says—and also gave food vouchers and solar lanterns to needy families identified by the mayor’s office Hernandez is still in communication with Comerio’s mayor and is working to create some permanent solutions (“Phase three,” she says) to facilitate the current recovery and to help the town weather any future disasters She is hoping use the donations they have continued to raise in order to subsidize water cisterns and “There are a lot of elderly people in the town who won’t have electricity until the summer,” Hernandez says “But if they could use solar power to run their refrigerators for insulin or breathing and dialysis machines By David Ferris | 04/04/2018 07:03 AM EDT But where does Puerto Rico go after its catastrophe A severed power pole hangs above a road in Comerío one of the municipalities of Puerto Rico that is last to get its electricity back Puerto Rico — On a recent Thursday morning Nancy Santos and her teenage daughter Paula sat quietly on the plastic chairs on their veranda watching as the strange men shouted to one another and prepared to activate the electric lines that had been dead since fall They also had every reason to be sitting forward impatiently and pestering the line crew they are vexed by the ineptitude of their territorial power company jilted by the slowness of help from Washington and deeply uncertain about whether their island will regain the footing it had before Hurricane Maria came and wrecked everything Yet they exude an island OK-ness that belies the doubts and fears surging underneath "The one thing I’ll tell you is that the people of Puerto Rico are the most resilient people I’ve ever seen in my life," said Carlos Torres the former head of emergency management for New York’s utility and the restoration coordinator in charge of Puerto Rico’s grid "They continue life dealing without power I don’t want to say it’s part of their life The municipality where the Santos family lives is in the mountains where the hurricane winds were fiercest and where steep and jungly hillsides have made restoring power lines most difficult service had been returned to 95 percent of Puerto Rico’s electricity customers with the remaining 5 percent in rural areas like Comerío Santos’ house had been without electricity since Hurricane Irma — that’s two hurricanes ago — but she seemed grateful that she still has her manager job at a restaurant called Taco Maker when asked what she looks forward to most about having electricity back But both seem less preoccupied with the state of their appliances and more curious about the men doing the work The men — the ladies call them "foreigners" — were in fact from Baltimore part of a 16-worker contingent from Baltimore Gas and Electric Co (BGE) doing a tour to help with the recovery in Puerto Rico with their day-glo vests and deep farmer’s tans and the big white bucket truck that had been barged across a thousand miles of ocean And though Santos and Paula couldn’t understand the English the men hollered to one another Their jeans were wet from the tropical showers that swept through every few minutes had been working for a few hours now on a distribution circuit that served about 15 homes the electricity wouldn’t come back on The men’s voices reached a new pitch "Tell ’em to hot it back up!" yelled the worker in the bucket The lightbulb in the Santos living room turned on for a moment When will power return for the 5 percent who don’t yet have it When will the periodic blackouts stop happening in the capital of San Juan Will the economy rebound from its 10-year-long recession Will the neighbors who left for New York and Florida return and will the newly rebuilt grid survive it the BGE crew members thought they knew what the problem was When a crewman delicately disconnected them The resident of the house casually tried to stick his hand into the junction box and the crew members responded in unison with a universally understood word when the men walked back to their bucket truck the ladies asked to pose for a photo with the extranjeros in their white hard hats "They are heroes," Santos concluded It is the foreigners that are energizing Puerto Rico." Which isn’t to say that Puerto Ricans are satisfied with how anyone in power has handled the recovery they’re so frustrated they’ve appropriated a new gesture Cock hands in front of you and toss an imaginary basketball through a hoop. In other parts of America, that means a free throw. But in post-hurricane San Juan, it’s come to signify a different kind of thrower: President Trump, during his single, short visit to the island in October, tossing paper towels into the crowd The complaint — that aid was too little and sloppily delivered — also applies to the Puerto Rican territorial government and especially the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) which was understaffed when Maria struck on the morning of Sept spoiled for many years," said Anibal Amador a man in his 70s who is owner of Puerto Rico Drug the largest store of its kind in Old San Juan Whether Puerto Rico’s economy comes back to life depends a lot on what happens in Old San Juan the walled peninsula that is the heart of the tourist trade Hector Andujar is the owner of Cafe Puerto Rico which occupies a choice corner lot on the edge of Plaza de Colón he surveyed his restaurant with the air of someone who has spent extensive time in a state of worry The power was out for almost two months after Maria and for months thereafter the streets were like a ghost town with tourists scared away by the apocalyptic reports they’d seen on TV The black-shirted staff preparing for tonight’s dinner shift numbers only a dozen "We’re surviving," Andujar said He and other vendors report that tourists have started returning in just the last few weeks which is usually Old San Juan’s high season but today there were just a smattering of young adults wandering the cobbled streets The horn of a cruise ship bellowed from the harbor the clerks leaned over the counter and browsed their phones but traffic piles up at dozens of intersections with dead stoplights The air conditioning is back in service at the big office buildings no one has gotten around to repairing the roofline corporate logos that were torn off by Maria’s gusts Everyone has a favorite restaurant or shop that has closed Every block or two there’s a blank storefront then it’s become the place where the neighborhood tossed its post-hurricane rubble One spot that’s come roaring back is Plaza Las Américas One could think that a hurricane never happened and long lines of people waited at the bank to cash paychecks The courtyard fountains sent a gentle mist over the crowded escalators and there was a line out the door at Applebee’s Ask anyone at the mall how Puerto Rico is doing and the first thing they mention is the people in the countryside who are still without power They also wonder whether any government — the distant federal government or the territorial administration with a history of corruption and currently $70 billion in debt — is equal to the task of righting the economy it would just be an issue of the people arguing with the government," said Juan Hernandez a student at the University of Puerto Rico who waited outside the mall with his mom "Here we look at it with more cynicism," he said "We don’t know if we trust the people who are here to help us or whether we will be able to solve the problems that need to be addressed." but then the insurance got him behind the wheel of a new Ford Escape "It worked out all right," he said with a smile a father of two daughters by different mothers by way of explaining why his two daughters have been taken by their respective mothers "I miss my daughters a lot," he said Indeed, it seems that everyone on the island has at least one friend or family member who has left, part of a mass exodus that has seen Puerto Ricans take up residence in every U.S. state, according to a CNN investigation departures from San Juan’s airport often are delayed a few minutes as the crew works to seat older and disabled people who are being delivered to the stability of the mainland could have never guessed the blessing tucked within the hurricane On Jan. 11, at the very moment the school’s lights went on, an employee had his phone camera filming as the school erupted in cheers and children leapt into the hallways with glee. The school posted the video to Facebook and it was picked up by major news networks as one of the first pieces of good news to come from Puerto Rico in a while what haven’t closed are any of the major pharmaceutical or medical device companies that make up two-thirds of Puerto Rico’s manufacturing gross domestic product and provide many of its high-tech have declared that Puerto Rico is their new haven A sort of transformation is underway in Comerío just a few miles from where Nancy Santos got her lights on in a cluster of homes called Barrio Paloma arrived a month after the hurricane with 24 bags of donated supplies "They sent me up this street," he said with 40 homes damaged and paralyzed with debris What Larregui didn’t yet know was that Paloma was dysfunctional but from long-standing feuds that left neighbors uncooperative and everyone went in and stayed in," said one of its residents The head of his own volunteer organization called Coco de Oro he brought in helpers and rallied the residents around clearing the fallen branches and flung roofs He painted the concrete bridge that crossed the creek in bright colors He led a $10,000 crowdfunding campaign to buy materials to rebuild houses He found that a home at the entrance to the neighborhood had been abandoned for years and he got permission to turn it into a community center and no one had seen an electrical line worker That didn’t stop someone from hooking up a stereo system to an SUV so that one of Paloma’s residents could lead volunteers through dance routines The sounds of "Despacito" throbbed off the valley walls and the vibe of Barrio Paloma has begun to change "Now the kids are outside playing basketball," she said No one knows how Maria will be imprinted on Puerto Rico’s memory A filmmaker who is making a documentary about the island’s recovery he recalled the little girl who talked about the moment she most remembered: when the howling wind ripped the roof off her house and how it merged with her parents’ screams "It is something that doesn’t take a year to heal," he said about having to drink from a river that is contaminated those are the stories that are going to get passed down." The healing is still raw on the coastline of Yabucoa a municipality on the east coast that bore Maria’s brunt "It was like an atom bomb," said Yasmin Morales Torres She is one of a family of fishermen that has lived right by the beach for generations where she saw 25- to 30-foot waves crash over the dozen homes her family occupied on the shoreline are living in parts of the house that survived while rebuilding the rest by hand they talk on their porch by the light of their five solar lanterns The landmass of Puerto Rico rose to the west except for the headlights of passing cars and the twinkles of a few homes that have backup generators and the cliff edge is only a foot away from the cornerstone of the house the women were working so hard to rebuild Request a FREE trial to receive unlimited access to Junior Giacomo Comerio placed 42nd with a 1-over-par 217 The Cal State Fullerton men’s golf team travelled to Maricopa Arizona for the Wyoming Cowboy Classic on Monday and Tuesday 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and inject their concerns into local and national affairs In a small town in eastern El Salvador called Calvario about 20 women in the Saving for a New Life group meet in a small cinderblock structure on a steep hillside they make a deposit into their Saving for Change fund—usually just a few dollars each Having some savings—and access to loans—helps women here make a decent living: Maria Angela Guevara says her loan of $100 buys two pigs for $40 each Now that Oxfam has helped form 18,000 Saving for Change groups and women are finding themselves more financially secure who led the formation of a group in nearby San Isidro are taking up roles in municipal government committees “We went to the mayor’s office in San Simón and we asked for representation for women,” she says “so that inside the municipality there exists a space for women Oxfam is helping women form regional networks to advocate for better government policies that will help women living in rural areas we have [thousands of] 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back…what to say Few days later he ended isolation and I took him home He was not very social as a baby at the shelter but I’ve a soft spot for difficult cases and I noticed that he was loving to give hugs once I had more confidence with him…so here we go Now he is the most courageous and loving one He has no fear of strangers and has become very social once I called him like that for a mistake and it became his name) I was able to socialise with him in MONTHS of work at the shelter and when I saw he was starting to trust me I just had to take him home Then there is Brodo (which means soup in Italian) a 20+ year old turtle that loves to snap fingers after losing a cat that had a very special place in my heart He was very sick…it looked like he waited for me to say goodbye I thought of making something in his memory and helping other cats sounded like a good idea but a few years later a new amazing structure has been built with an ambulatory and a lot of different rooms Every room has also a garden so the cats can be outside too They also organise pet therapy sessions for disabled children am not exactly a social person (not in a standard way I chose to take care only of the cleaning and feeding of the cats I also organised a rock festival for a couple of years  (Gatto Rock festival…yes you can get it ahah) to raise funds for the shelter The festival was held inside the castle of the city of Galliate We had fun but at the end unfortunately we didn’t raise enough money to make all the work behind the festival worth it The story of the shelter is very inspiring I admire your hard work and love for the cats What are the weirdest things your cat gets up to screaming as loud as he can until you compliment him for the good hunt night time is his favourite moment for hunting ahah In this precise moment he is laying down next to my computer keyboard…as soon as he hears the PC starting up every time I’m printing something he stays there completely excited by it…and if you touch him in that moment Lately he is also into gaming…he plays with my phone He just loves the ones where he can catch….yes he just needs to feel contact all the time You can take him and put it on you like a teddy bear bird watching and when you approach him he always suspects you are trying to murder him so he runs away Then he changes his mind and waits for you 5 meters away They taught me how to work properly for them ahah I guess that the biggest difference between cats and dogs is that a dog normally considers you as his owner How have your cats helped being at home for you Have they been comforting or running around like crazy I’ve been able to spend more time with them I’m one of those people that speaks with animals and I have no problem to admit it I guess in the first weeks they were a bit perplexed about me never leaving the house I grew up with dogs because my uncle was breeding German Shepherds but I always felt a connection with all animals I remember taking the dogs out for long walks in the woods near my grandparents’ house If you could have any animal in the world as a pet Don’t ask me why but I’m totally fixated with them There is a park near my place where a pack of geese roam free and every time I go there I try to socialise with them he let me pet him and jumped also on my lap Of course also more unfortunate moments happened…I’ve been attacked a few times by a couple of Chinese Geese I plan to have some when I move into my next house I am planning to buy a new house with a nice garden out of the city So are you one of those people that puts your pets into costumes Don’t be shy to tell us about their battle vests but he was doing the crazy salmon to get out of it Do you think any of your cats have a favourite music genre Topino is able to sleep in front of the speakers while I play or listen to the heaviest stuff One thing they love for sure is when I put on some birds singing If you could compare your cats to any famous musicians Topino has a little classic Abbath face paint that’s what people say when they see his pictures of course my cats have specific theme songs ahah) As for Bruby…well…someone from Muse – his theme song is Psycho but as soon as I start to hit the electronic drum kit that I use here to practice There is only one weird thing happening with Topino Not only are you a volunteer and a terrific cat dad Has it been hard being a member of so many bands anything exciting coming up for any of your bands You must be looking forward to getting back on stage again and on tour again Honestly the pandemic gave me a chance to sit down and relax at first I realised that I’ve been basically a workaholic for many I personally enjoyed the first months of isolation being finally able to take some time from myself I also had the chance to finish composing the third album of my solo band Hiems the second one has been released more than 10 years ago I hadn’t had the time to work properly on the new album until now now I immensely miss the stage and the adrenaline of playing live and most of all Luckily I had the chance to play a couple of shows in September 2020 with Forgotten Tomb in Italy We had to limit the places at 200 people (sitting and masked) and yes it was a bit weird The situation with Triumph Of Death is unfortunately different since the other band members live in a different country and I haven’t have a single chance to see them since the pandemic started I never stopped rehearsing the songs anyway usually I go once or twice a week to my rehearsal space and I go through the set list alone to keep myself in shape In these days we are discussing the possibility to stream a live in studio with Forgotten Tomb to present the new record “Nihilistic Estrangement” that came out in may 2020 in the middle of the Corona situation; so besides the two Italian shows we didn’t have the chance to present it live yet Well it sounds like you’ve been keeping yourself productive and positive Are there any words of wisdom or advice you’d like to share with your supporters during this time I think this pandemic is a clear sign that we are abusing our planet; I have no trust anyway in the intelligence of mankind We are simply not built care enough for long term risks overexploited and this virus is only one of the possible things that will go wrong in the future When we will lose the last animal and the last tree we will see that we can’t eat or breathe fucking money I for one cannot wait to get back to having gigs in my life again You must be logged in to post a comment This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. 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Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience There’s a 76% chance that the Bay Area will experience a more severe earthquake than 1989’s Loma Prieta temblor in the next three decades On the 112th anniversary of the region’s massive 1906 quake on April 18 it’s a good time to consider what parts of the city are the most vulnerable to destruction The central problem lies in San Francisco’s soil A lot of it was built on fill added in the latter half of the 19th century by zealous developers wanting to extend the peninsula’s real estate That fill is marshy and prone to movement it behaves more like a liquid than a solid – a phenomenon known as liquefaction “There are all different kinds of vulnerabilities,” Mary Comerio an architect who specializes in earthquake engineering research and teaches at the University of California Comerio considers all of them when she’s deciding where to live In addition to taking into account the soil's softness in different neighborhoods "there are also landslides in areas where we've built on quite steep hillsides where we probably shouldn't have," Comerio said So-called "soft-story" housing is another consideration dense apartments above cavernous garages which buckle when the earth beneath them turns to mush there is one stretch of land she'd never consider: the waterfront I'd love to be able to walk along the bay but I don't want to live in that setting because I know it's going to be highly damaged," Comerio said Comerio's insistence on considering the soil conditions in an area has become something of an inside joke to her friends and family Meld je aan voor het Beste van Business Insider: 6 dagen per week in je mailbox Cover Page Legal HistorySports SearchMultisectoral group urges towns to oppose PREPA debt adjustment planThe San Juan Daily StarSep 6 20242 min readThe Junte Multisectorial (Multi-Sector Group) noted that the municipalities of Juana Díaz Comerío and Manatí have already come out against the debt adjustment plan to pay off some $9 billion in Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority debt.By The Star Staff An umbrella group comprising 50 organizations from different sectors urged municipalities on Thursday to speak out against power rate hikes resulting from the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) debt adjustment plan The Junte Multisectorial (Multi-Sector Group) noted that the municipalities of Juana Díaz Comerío and Manatí have already come out against the plan to pay off some $9 billion in utility debt “We are at a key moment in PREPA’s bankruptcy process,” said Cathy Kunkel an energy expert and spokesperson for the group “PREPA bondholders have insisted that they be paid the full $8.5 billion in bonded debt through abusive rate increases over the next 35 years or more,” Kunkel stressed The Multi-Sector Group is urging municipalities to approve resolutions that explain to the court the adverse effects of the increases on their residents who is overseeing PREPA’s bankruptcy process to discuss the impact of rate hikes and poor electricity service on the island First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston allowed bondholders which would require much higher increases than initially proposed Swain ordered parties back to the negotiating table citing the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that found that the bonds were secured by $8.5 billion in net revenues That decision overturned her earlier ruling which found that the bonds were backed by only a $2.4 billion unsecured claim and may have upended the plan of adjustment director of La Liga de Ciudades de PR (League of Cities) stressed the need to focus resources on rebuilding the electricity system rather than paying bondholders © 2025 The San Juan Daily Star - Puerto Rico Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker