Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico Executive Director Natalie A. Jaresko urged local manufacturers to be an “active part of the island’s turnaround."
The Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust and the Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association hosted a roundtable Wednesday to provide details on Quest 2017, an event that promotes the exchange of best practices to optimize the island’s competitiveness.
The rate hike that the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and its bondholders are proposing would further erode the island’s economy and set back its recovery, members of the island’s private sector claimed Monday.