Expecting it to be a “short sale,” Borders Group on Saturday will begin liquidating everything at the 200 stores it will close as part of its Chapter 11 procedure, including the Carolina and Mayagüez locations.
Local coffee production has dropped by half in the last five years as the sector considered a jewel of Puerto Rican agriculture has battled against natural disasters and a lack of people interested in taking on the arduous task of picking beans.
If the government truly wants to help the economy move forward, aside from monitoring that all of the recently enacted reforms effectively serve their purpose, it will have to implement what private sector representatives on Thursday called a “credibility reform.”