The island’s allure for the glamour and glitz of Hollywood got a new boost Friday when Gov. Luis Fortuño — accompanied by performers Marc Anthony and Jennifer López — signed the new Puerto Rico Film Industry Economic Incentives Law that grants a slew of benefits to movie producers.
Nearly a year after Puerto Rico’s banking sector experienced a meltdown of historic proportions with the closing of three financial institutions, Financial Institutions Commissioner Alfredo Padilla said Friday that 2011 should be a “turnaround year” for the industry.
The Dominican Republic’s powerful Grupo Corripio this week inaugurated a new $20 million Gatorade bottling plant that will supply the beverage to the rest of the Caribbean, including Puerto Rico. The new operation is the result of an agreement between Grupo Corripio and PepsiAmericas, which for the past five years had produced its Gatorade energy […]
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