Sun West Mortgage announced the opening of third branch in Puerto Rico, which called for an investment of some $200,000, located at the Ciudadela complex in Santurce.
Intelligent residential energy storage company sonnen announced the commissioning of a solar + battery storage microgrid at S.U. Matrullas, a K through 9 school that educates more than 150 students in the remote town of Orocovis.
We appreciate the statement of the Oversight Board on the desirability that the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics is maintained as a public, independent and separate instrumentality from the government of Puerto Rico.
FirstBank, as part of its commitment to provide assistance to disadvantaged communities, has destined a donation to the Martín Peña Recicla organization, for the recycling of mobile phones, to provide assistance to seven families from the G8 communities at the Martín Peña Channel who suffered damages to their homes after the passage of Hurricane María.
The Health Insurance Services Administration, or ASES, which runs the Health Reform program for the medically indigent, announced it has received the approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for contracts with insurers that manage the government’s health plan and corresponding policies for the current fiscal year.
A group of creditors, which collectively holds a substantial portion of Puerto Rico's outstanding $73 billion public debt, responded to the Commonwealth’s most recent version of its Fiscal and Economic Growth Plan, saying “a pragmatic, transparent and growth-focused policy agenda is critical to the island's recovery.”
Banco Popular de Puerto Rico has agreed to acquire Wells Fargo & Company’s auto finance business in Puerto Rico, which operates as Reliable Financial Services Inc. and Reliable Finance Holding Company, for $1.7 billion, the financial institution announced.
For the fifth year in a row, Puerto Rico’s Center for a New Economy (CNE) has been included in the most recent edition of the 2017 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report published by the University of Pennsylvania’s Lauder Institute.
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló, announced an agreement in principle with the United States Department of Treasury which will allow employers that were not able to operate their businesses — after Hurricanes Irma and María — to claim a credit of up to $2,400 for each employee that was paid a salary during said period.
Delta Air Lines paid out more than $1 billion in profit sharing for the fourth year in a row and celebrate the outstanding accomplishments made possible by its more than 80,000 employees around the world.
The president of the Puerto Rico Telecommunications Regulatory Board, Sandra Torres, said at a public hearing that currently 2,509 of the 2,659 antennas that provide telecommunications services in Puerto Rico are operational, representing 94 percent.
Green Spirit Industries Inc. through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Project 1493 LLC, announced it has begun construction on its fifth planned medical cannabis dispensary location in Puerto Rico.
The Central Florida Hotel & Lodging Association, a trade association representing approximately 80 percent of all lodging establishments in Central Florida, will be conducting a Central Florida Job Fair on Feb. 20th in San Juan, to provide job opportunities for those whose lives and careers were impacted by Hurricane María.
The McConnell Valdés/Antonio Escudero-Viera Scholarship awarded its second scholarship to Nayda Bobonis-Cabrera, a fourth-year University of Puerto Rico Law School student, the law firm announced.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed an executive order establishing the Commission on Puerto Rico Relief, an 18-member group that will collaborate with state and federal agencies to expedite processes benefiting displaced Puerto Ricans in New Jersey, as well as examine ways the state can aid the island.
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