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e. The Puerto Rico Aqueducts and Sewers Authority ( PRASA; Spanish: Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico) is a water company and the government-owned corporation responsible for water quality, management, and supply in Puerto Rico, a US insular area. [ 1] PRASA is the only entity authorized to conduct such business in Puerto ...
The Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources ( PRDNER) ( Spanish: Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales de Puerto Rico) is the executive department of the government of Puerto Rico tasked with protecting, conserving, developing, and managing the natural and environmental resources in Puerto Rico.
The Authority for the Financing of the Infrastructure of Puerto Rico Spanish: Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Infraestructura de Puerto Rico ( AFI )— is a government-owned corporation of Puerto Rico that grants administrative and financial assistance to other Puerto Rico government-owned corporations in order to develop facilities and ...
e. The Puerto Rico Public–Private Partnerships Authority ( P3A) ( Spanish: Autoridad para las Alianzas Público Privadas de Puerto Rico ( APPP )) is a government-owned corporation of Puerto Rico created in order to regulate public–private partnerships (PPP) in Puerto Rico. [1] It is a PPP unit whose responsibilities include promotion and ...
In 2017, there were 69 hospitals in Puerto Rico. [289] 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 ...
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 ...
Puerto Rican citizenship and nationality. Puerto Rico is an island in the Caribbean region in which inhabitants were Spanish nationals from 1508 until the Spanish–American War in 1898, from which point they derived their nationality from United States law. Nationality is the legal means by which inhabitants acquire formal membership in a ...
v. t. e. The government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is a republican form of government with separation of powers, subject to the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United States. [ 1][ 2] Article I of the Constitution of Puerto Rico defines the government and its political power and authority. The powers of the government of Puerto Rico ...