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Noticias con Calle

English News - March 4

Noticias con Calle

Jay Fonseca

News

4.7773 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Top Puerto Rico News.

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0:00.0

Good morning today is Monday March 4th, 2019. My name is Edgar Louis Senty and these are

0:07.8

Puerto Rico's top news for today. So we start off with a news that I would honestly

0:13.8

not even like to say, but 63 out of every 100 Bulletproof West in Puerto Rico are currently

0:20.9

expired. That's right. 63% of every Bulletproof West that our police owns are expired. That's right. Sixty-three percent of every bulletproof vest that our police owns are expired.

0:29.3

What makes this even worse is that the government is asking them for supplier quotes in order to see if they can cover the cost.

0:37.7

Which is honestly absurd because one would think this type of expenditure is simply approved no matter what.

0:45.1

We are talking about people's lives here.

0:47.2

And this is the same government

0:50.2

that just spent $100,000 in two governors' bust,

0:55.6

the same government that spent over $250,000

0:58.7

in a bulletproof car for the governor, a new one.

1:02.0

And there's just so many of these expenditures

1:05.3

that are like, you can't figure them out.

1:08.1

That one can't simply explain how they can talk about

1:13.8

bullet proof vest, people's lives,

1:16.8

and simply say, oh, we might not find the money for it.

1:19.6

What's even worse, yes, because it gets even worse,

1:22.6

is that the police chief was quoted protecting

1:25.5

the government by saying that even though the manufacturers only guarantee the bulletproof

1:33.0

vest for five years, it doesn't mean that they will not work after that period.

1:37.8

I mean, are you willing to take the chance that they will not work?

1:41.9

Are we willing as a country to take the chance that these bulletproof vests will not work? I don't know, but for me this Puerto Rico's top news

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