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The Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DRNA) was created by Law Number 23 of June 20, 1972. The first head of the Department was Cruz Matos. [5] In 2016 the agency's headquarters where temporarily moved from the Cruz A. Matos building in Cupey due to problems with the ventilation. [6]
The Puerto Rico Planning Board ( Spanish: Junta de Planificación) created in the May 12, 1942 during Rexford G. Tugwell 's governorship as the Puerto Rico Planning, Urbanization, and Zoning Board, is the only government agency in charge of centralized planning under the American flag. [ 1][ 2] Its creation was in keeping with Tugwell's New ...
Culture of Puerto Rico. The Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (English: Institute of Puerto Rican Culture), or ICP for short, is an institution of the Government of Puerto Rico responsible for the establishment of the cultural policies required in order to study, preserve, promote, enrich, and diffuse the cultural values of Puerto Rico. [1]
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico [esˈtaðo ˈliβɾe asoˈsjaðo ðe ˈpweɾto ˈriko] is the official name in Spanish of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Its literal translation is "Associated Free State of Puerto Rico". The official name was suggested by its architect Luis Muñoz Marín and adopted by a constitutional assembly on 25 July ...
Reforma de Salud de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Health Reform) – locally referred to as La Reforma ('The Reform') – is a government-run program which provides medical and health care services to the indigent and impoverished, by means of contracting private health insurance companies, rather than employing government-owned hospitals and ...
Map of the departments of Puerto Rico during Spanish provincial times (1886).. The history of Puerto Rico began with the settlement of the Ortoiroid people before 430 BC. At the time of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1493, the dominant indigenous culture was that of the Taínos.
In 2022, the United States House of Representatives passed the Puerto Rico Status Act. [2] In August 2024, the Puerto Rico Supreme Court dismissed the July 2024 petition by the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) asking the State Election Commission (CEE) to halt the status plebiscite. [3][4]
First Lady or First Gentleman of Puerto Rico, a.k.a. Primera Dama o Primer Caballero de Puerto Rico in Spanish, is the official title given by the government of Puerto Rico to the spouse of the governor of Puerto Rico or the relatives of the governor, should the holder be unmarried. The governor's spouse leads the Office of the First Lady or ...