 With the news Puerto Rico's new governor appointed a so-called energy czar to help pull the US territory out of a power-supply crisis, www.islandstats.com can confirm that the Bermuda Football Association are monitoring the situation.
As we have reported Bermuda’s Under 17 Women's team are set to play in the U17 CONCACAF World Cup Qualifiers at the end of the month.
“Right now, we're in an emergency,” said Governor Jenniffer González Colón.
More than 2,500 clients remain without power since the Dec. 31 blackout and that it would continue cooperating with government officials and others to overcome the grid's “latent challenges.”
“I want to not only send a message that we here are not going to be lenient with contracts made with Puerto Rico's government, but that we are going to ensure Puerto Rico has power,” González told a news conference.
She noted that the US government has not yet released $18 billion slated for Puerto Rico's crumbling grid, and that Colón would push to help obtain those funds.
The federal government has already released millions of dollars to help stabilize the grid and rebuild it after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in September 2017.
The grid, however, was already in a fragile state because of a lack of maintenance and investment when the Category 4 storm hit.
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