Op-Ed: Compact for Puerto Rico
December 17, 2012
Recently, and in view of the very serious challenges facing Puerto Rico, some analysts have called for a Compact among the various interest groups in society to agree on basic development issues. I fully agree with the need for what I would call a Compact for Puerto Rico (in Spanish, “Pacto por Puerto Rico").
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Op-Ed: Puerto Rico, a lost paradise?
December 11, 2012
As tired as I was over a sleepless night —horrified after reading José Enrique Gómez’s murderer’s description of his vicious and vile death and deeply concerned about Puerto Rico’s present and future — I couldn’t miss our standing high-school monthly dinner, especially because two of my very best friends from school were in town.
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Op-Ed: Puerto Rico needs to be proactive, productive, transparent
December 10, 2012
With a change of government at hand and a new year ahead, it would be interesting to dare imagine a vision of a proactive, efficient and transparent Puerto Rico, that is, the opposite of what we have today in many respects.
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Op-Ed: Setting up ‘Health Insurance Exchange’ for Puerto Rico employers
November 30, 2012
On June 28, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the HC Reform is largely constitutional, upholding the individual mandate provision. The individual mandate is the provision that requires Americans to maintain health coverage. While it is still uncertain if this provision would apply to Puerto Rico, or what impact it would have on the HC Reform come January 2013, we are certain that employers will continue to face challenging decisions regarding healthcare.
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Op-Ed: Insurance against potential employee lawsuits could save your business
November 27, 2012
Considering the business risks related to managing Puerto Rico’s comprehensive and complex labor regulation, it makes sense for companies to protect their resources with an Employment Practices Liability (EPL) policy.
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NIMB marks 24 months of informing Puerto Rico, world
November 16, 2012
News is my Business, Puerto Rico’s only all-digital English-language business news service, is marking its second anniversary today.
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Op-Ed: Honoring America’s finest this Veterans Day
November 12, 2012
This Veterans Day, while we take a moment to honor the millions of men and women who watch over our freedom, it’s important to also share information about the resources available to help veterans who are on the path to entrepreneurship.
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Op-Ed: The governor’s immediate economic agenda
November 8, 2012
Puerto Rico Governor-elect Alejandro García-Padilla will be undertaking an administration facing a very difficult scenario, with severe resource restrictions.
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Op-Ed: GDB’s response to CNE’s ‘open letter’
October 18, 2012
The Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico is proud of its long tradition of professional management, transparent corporate governance and utmost respect toward the investor community and the people at large.
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Op-Ed: CNE’s open letter to Puerto Rico’s GDB
October 17, 2012
The lack of seriousness and responsibility reflected by the comments made by the president of the Government Development Bank of Puerto Rico are truly disturbing.
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Op-Ed: A world of export opportunities awaits small business
October 15, 2012
With almost 95 percent of world consumers outside America's borders, exporting is an important way for small business to scale up and create the jobs that America needs now. Now, more than ever before, small business owners can access these overseas markets with the click of a button thanks to globalization, Internet communications and export finance programs made more simple and easy to use by the Obama Administration.
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Op-Ed: Is the recession ending or is it over?
October 11, 2012
During the past 12 months, Puerto Rico’s economic activity has gained ground, as the recession is no longer deepening. This scenario is in addition to the appearance of the first signs of an early recovery stage — albeit moderate — and seeing the first pieces of evidence indicating that the recession is over.
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Op-Ed: Supply chain-driven development
October 9, 2012
One of the many consequences of globalization, and of the technological change that to a significant extent made it possible, is that the meaning of terms used in economic development has changed.
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Op-Ed: Torturing employment data
October 8, 2012
Dr. John Stewart, who worked for many years as an economic advisor at the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company, used to say that if you tortured the statistics long enough, they would tell you what you wanted to hear.
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Op-Ed: How to grow your business with the Internet’s help
October 5, 2012
According to Internet World Stats, an organization that periodically records the advancement of the Internet worldwide, more than 1.6 million people are connected to the web in Puerto Rico, this is almost half of the population and 50 percent more than thosw who were connected two years ago.
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