A group of Puerto Rican entrepreneurs, motivated by the desire to solve their own project financing challenges, on Wednesday launched Antrocket.com, the first Hispanic crowdfunding platform.
Puerto Rico received $7 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds in 2009, but failed to create and retain jobs and renovate infrastructure as they were supposed to because hundreds of millions of dollars were used to cover the operational deficiencies of a handful of government agencies.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $249,487 to the Puerto Rico Department of Environment and Natural Resources to support wetlands protection across the commonwealth.