The Puerto Rico Treasury Department released Tuesday a draft of the Commonwealth’s unaudited Basic Financial Statements for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, more than a year after their required release.
The Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority’s board of directors approved Tuesday a plan mapping out its finances through the end of the fiscal year that is anchored on the approval of the bill establishing a new credit-issuing entity that is already facing opposition.
WASHINGTON — José Raúl Perales, a Santurce-born regional trade expert who spent years advising the Puerto Rican government — and later the U.S. private sector and the Department of Homeland Security — says bankruptcy protection and tax breaks alone won’t help the island regain its long-term competitiveness against global rivals.