Puerto Rico’s retail activity showed a positive upturn during the first six months of the year, totaling $17.5 billion, or a 2.24 percent increase over the same period in 2011, government agency Puerto Rico Trade and Export announced Monday.
Puerto Rico needs to establish closer commercial ties with all countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean by, among other things, playing up its importance as the gateway to the U.S. mainland, Ricardo Martinelli, president of the Republic of Panama said upon his arrival to the island Thursday.
Puerto Rico has to implement a reinvention project focused on an economic and social development plan that includes a specific agenda for the Northeastern region, which is as stagnant as the rest of the island.
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