Tool Released to Facilitate Access to Statistics on Passenger and Cargo Movement Through Puerto Rico’s Airports

Date: May 25, 2016

To establish public policy for access to government information and documentation; to order, organize and regulate real access mechanisms; to establish principles and instruments to guarantee access; to establish the governmental obligation to inform and to educate on the principle and practice of governmental transparency, access to information and documentation and to the mechanisms of how to obtain it; organize and regulate mechanisms for creating records; order the appointment of an Information Officer in each governmental entity; create the position of Public Information Ombudsman; create an Administrative Board to review disputes over violations of this law; schedule a final Judicial Appeal procedure to the decisions of this Board and for other purposes.

Date: May 24, 2016

To amend Articles 6 (i) and 13 of Act No. 209-2003, as amended, known as the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute Act, to provide that the maximum amount to be paid for administrative fines authorized by the Act shall be governed by the provisions on administrative penalties established in Act No. 170 of August 12, 1988, as amended, better known as the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act.

Institute of Statistics reveals www.transparenciafinanciera.pr where it is accountable to citizens for their income and expenses.

Net migration to the United States reaches historic record

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) visits the Planning Board in coordination with the Institute for Statistics