A few weeks ago, Jenniffer González-Colón, Puerto Rico’s Resident Commissioner, appeared in the highly rated show translated as “Playing Hardball,” along with Manuel Laboy, Secretary of the Department of Economic Development. The show’s panel inquired about the government’s slow disbursement of federal funding that was allotted to the island under several of the Cares Act […]
I was happy to read about Parallel 18’s latest group of startups and listen to each company pitch during their recent virtual kickoff event. Generation 8 is the accelerator’s first all Puerto Rican cohort and it surfaces as a hopeful sign amidst a sea of small businesses that have shut down due to the COVID-19 […]
Arguably since 2006, Puerto Rico has endured a plethora of natural and man-made incidents and disasters. After much travail, it seems that Puerto Rico agonizes under a never-ending recovery. And this fact is evident if we understand what recovery should be. In the dictionary, recovery is defined as “the process of becoming successful or normal again after problems,” or […]