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Whitefish Energy: Power company halts Puerto Rico work

Loknath Das

An energy firm is halting work restoring power in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico in a dispute over pay. Whitefish Energy says payments have been delayed from Puerto Rico’s bankrupt power authority. The power authority, known was Prepa, says it is reviewing invoices and has stopped payments after receiving a complaint from a subcontractor. Whitefish Energy has been at the centre of a contracting controversy that reached the Trump administration. Puerto Rico’s hard road to recovery after Hurricane Maria Whitefish energy grid deal to be scrapped The company said in a statement…

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Despacito effect: Puerto Rico’s La Perla is the new tourist hot spot. Here’s why

Loknath Das

“The gringos are coming!” Outsiders were afraid to venture in before, but since Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s megahit, tourists from all over the world are descending on the narrow streets that wind among La Perla’s brightly coloured houses. “Despacito?” they inquire. And the barrio’s residents obligingly point out the locations where the video was filmed: the rocks facing the sea where Fonsi sings the refrain, the sea wall where ex-Miss Universe Zuleyka Rivera strolls, the little plaza where men play dominoes — the tables and chairs just as they…

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