In a prepared message and flanked by Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico officials, Gov. Wanda Vázquez unveiled a sweeping incentives package to help individuals and small businesses handle the effects of the COVID-19 shutdown, now entering its second week. While 134,200 central government employees will continue to receive their paychecks, private-sector workers, […]
As one of the early applicants under Laws 20 and 22 of 2012, I can attest there was a certain apprehension towards potential changes to the laws that supposedly would be immutable. There was a perception that government had a history of changing the game and not honoring the letter, and even more important the […]
The Puerto Rico Agriculture Department has allocated $1 million to create an incentive program that would help mitigate the effects the drought has had on livestock in 17 municipalities of the island. Agriculture Secretary Carlos Flores-Ortega signed an order authorizing the Agricultural Enterprises Development Administration (ADEA, for its initials in Spanish,) to create a mitigation […]
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