Javier Rivera-Aquino, who until late last year headed the Agriculture Department has been appointed executive director of the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company’s Puerto Rican Industry Investment Board, through which he will advocate for greater participation of local companies in government procurement activities, administration officials said Monday.
Labor Department statistics released over the weekend put Puerto Rico’s unemployment rate at 15 percent for the month of February, reflecting a 0.1 percentage point drop in comparison to the prior month’s level and a 1.2 percentage drop decrease from the 16.2 percent rate on record for February 2011.
General Fund net revenue totaled $674 million in February, an increase of $97 million or 16.8 percent, when compared with February 2011.
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