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Award Ceremony and Recognition for the Puerto Rican Delegation participating in the Puerto Rican Week and National Puerto Rican Parade activities in New York



Ing. Rafael Muñoz (CROEM ALUMNI), Xavier González Simounet (Empire Gas Group), Rev. Moisés Román and Lcdo. Ramón González Simounet (CEO Empire Gas Group)

Wilson Nazario (Coordinator of the Puerto Rico Delegation) and Manuel Sierra (General Manager of The San Juan Daily Star)

Carlos A. Declet Jimenez (Legal Advisor, Puerto Rico Delegation)
Sheila Otero (president of Maxbilling) and Nydia Yanira Reyes (EPA Washington scientist)
Kevin VannReyes, Matilde Rodriguez and María VannReyes (centennial (100 years) Sesto Store in Aguadilla)















Jesus “Jerry” Marquez Rodriguez (Mayor of Luquillo)

















By The Star Staff


With a posthumous tribu-te ceremony to eight (8) personalities linked to the Delegation of Puerto Rico partici-pating in the activities of the Puer-to Rican Week Conversation and National Puerto Rican Parade event in New York, the awards and recog-nition event was held for more than one hundred and fifty (150) people who were in the “Big Apple” repre-senting the island this year 2024. The activity held at the headquar-ters of the Association of Members of the Puerto Rico Police had the participation of the well-known or-ganization Group 21 of Washington together with members of the Cham-ber of Commerce of Spain in Puerto Rico, headed by its president Lcdo. Ramón González Simounet, chief executive officer of the EMPIRE Gas Group and the CROEM ALUMNI or-ganization (Association of Graduate Students of the Mayagüez Residen-tial Center for Educational Opportu-nities).


Eng. Alain R. Nazario (Manager of the CAMPOFRESCO PR plant)
Carlos D. López Bonilla (Mayor of Rincón)

“This activity has been a great suc-cess, since it was possible to cele-brate the first posthumous tribute ce-remony to personalities linked to the Puerto Rican Delegation that travels annually to participate in the Puer-to Rican Week and National Puerto Rican Parade program in New York. The figures honored posthumously are Dr. Ramón S. Vélez Ramírez, for-mer Congressman Robert Bob Gar-cía, Don Ramón González Cordero (founder of EMPIRE Gas), Aníbal Meléndez (former mayor of Fajar-do), Orlando Muñiz Bonet, Gilberto Conde Román (former mayor of Jun-cos) and Dr. Héctor O. Rivera,” said Wilson Nazario, coordinator of the Delegation that travels to New York.


Lcda. Marta Rivera Plaza (CEO of the San Juan Capestrano Hospital System)
Lt. José Juan Taboada De Jesús (President of the Association of Members of the Puerto Rico Police)

The coordinating committee of the Delegation announced the pre-sentation of certificates of recogni-tion to the newspaper The San Juan Daily Star along with businessman José González Freyre (president Pan American Grain), Nilsa Rivera (Pan American Grain), Lydia Burgos Pa-gán (Jugo Lutos), Héctor Camacho (JetBlue), Carlos Mercado (executive director of the Tourism Company), Edgard Gonzalez (Innova), Koffy Brunch & Bistro, José Luis Dalmau (Senator), Luis R. “Narmito” Ortiz (Representative), Grégory Gonsález Souchet (Mayor of Peñuelas), Eddie Charbonier Chinea (Representa-tive), José Luis Rivera-Villamañán The coordinating committee of the Delegation announced the pre-sentation of certificates of recogni-tion to the newspaper The San Juan Daily Star along with businessman José González Freyre (president Pan American Grain), Nilsa Rivera (Pan American Grain), Lydia Burgos Pa-gán (Jugo Lutos), Héctor Camacho (JetBlue), Carlos Mercado (executive director of the Tourism Company), Edgard Gonzalez (Innova), Koffy Brunch & Bistro, José Luis Dalmau (Senator), Luis R. “Narmito” Ortiz (Representative), Grégory Gonsález Souchet (Mayor of Peñuelas), Eddie Charbonier Chinea (Representa-tive), José Luis Rivera-Villamañán neda (Barcelona Deli & Bakery) and Johnny Cruz (Salsa Museum in New York), all collaborators and sponsors of the Delegation of Puerto Rico.

Carlos Pescador (Economic Development Bank officer), Luis Alemañy González (Economic Development Bank President), Lcda. Gretel Cathiard (Economic Development Bank officer) and Juan J. De Jesús (CROEM ALUMNI).
Federico Perez, former President of the Puerto Rican Parada NY, Maria Román Dumen (Former President of the Puerto Rican Parade NY), Jane García, Rev. Moises Román and Danny Maldonado (president Potreros Los Llanos).

Eng. Wilson D. Nazario Cruz (CEO and President of Interstate Contractor Group)


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