2021 in Puerto Rico

Events in the year 2021 in Puerto Rico.

Incumbents

 * President: Donald Trump (R) (until January 20), Joe Biden (D) (starting January 20)
 * Governor: Wanda Vázquez Garced (R) (until January 2), Pedro Pierluisi (D) (starting January 2)
 * Resident Commissioner: Jenniffer González

January to April

 * January 2 – Pedro Pierluisi, 61, is sworn in as the new governor.
 * January 5 – President Donald Trump announces $3.7 billion to rebuild water infrastructure. The grant covers 90% of the estimated costs of the water and wastewater improvement projects.
 * January 24 – Governor Pedro Pierluisi declares a state of emergency over gender violence. The island saw 62 cases of femicide in 2020 and violence against members of the LGBTQ community.
 * February 1 – President Joe Biden signs an order providing $6.2 billion to Puerto Rico for disaster mitigation.
 * February 2 – The Health Department announces that for the next 28 days the COVID-19 vaccine will be exclusively for adults 65 years of age and older.
 * February 23 – Governor Pedro Pierluisi rejects a proposed debt settlement because of concerns about the effect on the territory′s pension system.
 * February 24 – A box containing 31 doses of COVID-19 vaccine is found on a street in Morovis. The vaccines had spoiled. Puerto Rico has reported at least 91,834 cases and 2,007 deaths from the virus.
 * March 12 – San Juan′s San José Church prepares for reopening after being closed in 1996 for restoration and repairs. The second-oldest church on the island, which was built in 1532 near the ocean on top of a Taíno settlement at the highest point of Old San Juan, was originally a Dominican convent where Bartolomé de las Casas lived.
 * March 23 – The United States Department of Education releases $912 million in federal funds that had been held up by the Trump administration.


 * March – 27 schools reopen for in-person classes after being shut for year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
 * April 13 – Puerto Rican military veterans are onored on the first annual National Day of Borinqueneers.

Deaths

 * January 15 – Elizam Escobar, 72, art theorist, poet, and political activist, cancer.
 * February 16 – Ángel Mangual, 73, baseball player (Oakland Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates), World Series champion (1972, 1973, 1974).
 * February 18 – Juan Pizarro, 84, baseball player, (Milwaukee Braves, Chicago White Sox), cancer.
 * February 26 – Ferdinand Vega, 84, Olympic archer (1972).
 * March 11 – Orlando Llenza, 90, military officer.
 * March 15 – Albert Rodriguez, 58, comedic actor.