Urged to join Daddy Yankee as speaker at annual Puerto Rican Week forum, which this year is devoted to island tourism & gastronomy
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The Puerto Rican Delegation has extended an official invitation to urban music superstar Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, better known as “Bad Bunny,” to be part of the activities of the Puerto Rican Week and the Puerto Rican National Parade to be held in New York City during the first week of June.
“More than a thousand people travel to the ‘Big Apple’ to participate in the activities generated by Puerto Rican Week, which begins with a Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, scheduled this year for Sunday, June 1, 2025,” said José J. Taboada de Jesús, president of the Puerto Rico Police Members Association and vice president of the Puerto Rican Delegation. “We have announced that the ‘Boricua diaspora’ will place its cultural, sports, social and educational activities in the … first week of June in which our Delegation participates. The invitation to ‘Bad Bunny’ is similar to the one we have extended to ‘Daddy Yankee’ (Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez), so that they can join the group that will be participating in all the events that are scheduled, such as the reception of dignitaries, visits from Mayor Eric Adams at Gracie Mansion, the ‘Abrazo Boricua’ breakfast in the Bronx hosted by former state senator and president of the Hispanic Christian Ministers Organization of NY, Reverend Rubén Díaz, the reception of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce at CUNY College and the Puerto Rican Parade on Fifth Avenue.”
Bad Bunny and Daddy Yankee are invited to be speakers at the Annual Puerto Rican Week Conversation, whose theme this year is dedicated to tourism and the restaurant industry in Puerto Rico.
“With the turn that Puerto Rico’s tourism offering has taken at an international level, we have invited […] Bad Bunny to explain the form and manner in which he managed to develop his international promotional campaign, which has placed Puerto Rico as the primary tourist option in the Caribbean,” Taboada de Jesús noted. “Likewise, the organizers invited Daddy Yankee, who has been the central figure of the recently successful promotional campaign of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company. We hope that both artists will share their experiences with hundreds of government officials, private business executives and students who have confirmed their attendance at the event, which will take place at La Casa de la Herencia Cultural Puertorriqueña Inc., whose headquarters are at El Barrio’s Artspace PS 109 located at 215 East 99 Street, Suite 18 in New York.”
Among the invitees are Tourism Company Executive Director Willianette Robles; Ramón González Simounet, president of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce Puerto Rico and chief executive officer of EMPIRE GAS; Puerto Rico Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz; Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez, Puerto Rico Mayors Federation President Gabriel “Gaby” Hernández Rodríguez; Puerto Rico Mayors Association President Jorge “Georgie” González Otero; Inter-American University President Rafael Ramírez Rivera; Vega Baja Mayor Marcos Cruz Molina; Mayagüez Mayor Jorge L. Ramos Ruíz; Agriculture Secretary Josué Rivera; United Retailers Center President Ramón Barquín; Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce President Luis E Pizarro Otero and others, noted Wilson Nazario, executive director of the Graduate Students Association the Mayagüez Educational Opportunities Residential Center (CROEM ALUMNI) and coordinator of the Conversation in New York.
As usual, a series of recognitions and awards, to be presented at the event, will be announced in April.
The fourth Conversation on Empowering Communities and Opportunities is organized by CROEM ALUMNI and the Puerto Rico Police Members Association.
