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• The island’s government still lists the official death toll from the hurricane as 64 despite evidence that it’s vastly under-counted.
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• Nearly 200 high school seniors who left Puerto Rico for central Florida after Hurricane Maria still got to walk the stage although with a new set of peers. 90.7’s Crystal Chavez checked in with the local school districts that took in the most student evacuees.
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• Before Hurricane Maria hit in September, the island imported most of its food. The storm sparked a movement to rely on local crops, and highlighted a complicated relationship with the U.S. government.
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• The death rate is a contentious subject, in part because federal and island governments haven’t responded as rapidly to the disaster as they have in other hurricane emergencies.
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• FEMA is extending housing assistance to Puerto Rican evacuees until June 30th and says this will be the final extension.
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• For years, the nation’s largest banks made millions off Puerto Rican debt as the island approached financial ruin. Then, with its infrastructure crumbling, a Category 4 hurricane barreled in.
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• MIAMI (AP) — A small street festival outside Miami features booths adorned with Puerto Rican flags. A band plays salsa music as vendors offer specialties from the Caribbean island such as rice with pork and chickpeas. There’s also a woman working her way through the crowd with a clipboard, her white T-shirt emblazoned with the words “Your vote, your voice, your future.”
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• Not all displaced students from Puerto Rico who enrolled in central Florida schools have stayed.
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• PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An opulent Florida hotel is spending tens of thousands of dollars to ship its two large generators to Puerto Rico.
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• Puerto Ricans displaced by Hurricane Maria could lose temporary housing assistance as soon as this weekend.
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