The Municipal Revenue Collections Center, known as CRIM by its initials in Spanish, announced Tuesday the start of a 100-day amnesty relieving taxpayers who are in arrears with the agency from paying interest, surcharges and penalties on their debt.
In less than 18 months, the town of Bayamón will become home to Puma Energy’s fifth worldwide regional office, joining Tallin (Estonia), Johannesburg (South Africa), Brisbane (Australia) and Singapore as key locations for the company, officials announced Tuesday.
The Susan G. Komen Puerto Rico Financing Program recently awarded $382,244 to 24 nonprofit organizations for breast and health care, as well as quality treatment for Puerto Rican women.
The International Council of Shopping Centers is gearing up to host its 4th annual regional convention in Puerto Rico in February 2014, with an agenda of presentations that seek, among other objectives, to lay out opportunities for local retailers to export their goods and services, event organizers told this media outlet in an interview Monday.
Wireless carrier AT&T announced Monday it has added extra capacity to 28 cell sites in St. Thomas and St. Croix; upgraded five sites in St. John, St. Thomas and St. Croix with LTE technology; and activated a new cell site in St. Thomas in its ongoing efforts to enhance the wireless capacity and coverage of its mobile Internet network available in the neighboring island chain.
As the Internet expands and is populated by more and more users, as digital tools become ever more sophisticated and multi-purpose, the drive to get the business message out into the vastness of cyberspace — in an adequate fashion — is no easy task.
When it comes to accepting and staying at a job, Puerto Rican employees value a positive work environment over higher pay, according to some of the results included in the 6th Employment Survey conducted by nonprofits Universia and Trabajando.com this year.
Crowley Maritime Corporation’s Caribbean logistics unit has recently been granted reclassification of its Puerto Rico warehousing and distribution center to Foreign Trade Zone status.
Puerto Rico Trade and Export Co. Executive Director Francisco Chévere recently met with representatives from several federal agencies in Washington, D.C. to secure technical assistance to boost exports of local goods and services, the agency announced.
The Puerto Rico Consumer Affairs Department is unveiling today its new 3-1-1 consumer orientation service, through which citizens will be able to call to get general information about their rights as consumers, as well as on the complaint filing process, agency Secretary Nery Adames said. Through the hotline, consumers will also have access to details […]
Seaborne Airlines last week debuted its new service from San Juan’s Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport to La Romana International Airport the Dominican Republic.
Under current economic conditions, Puerto Rico’s nonprofits must be able to measure the results of their efforts to justify their work effectively to their donors and society in general.
Puerto Rico’s declining population, rapidly aging workforce, significant fiscal pressures and subsequent policy measures have combined to prompt a reduction in the government’s workforce over the past five years by as many as 55,000 jobs, or almost 20 percent of the public sector’s workforce.
Puerto Rico car sales showed a slight improvement last month, when 8,906 vehicles were sold on the island, representing a 1.7 percent year-over-year increase, said the United Automobile Importers Group (known as GUIA for its initials in Spanish), an organization that represents the local automotive industry.
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