The U.S. Small Business Administration Puerto Rico/US Virgin Islands District Office signed a Strategic Alliance Memorandum (SAM) with Friends of Puerto Rico, a nonprofit that that supports the economic development of the people of Puerto Rico through entrepreneurial initiatives and education, which creates opportunities for women. SBA District Director Josué E. Rivera and Friends of […]
Baristas del Caribe, LLC, the operating licensee of Starbucks in Puerto Rico, announced the opening of its first drive-thru only Starbucks store on the island. At 660 square feet, the Starbucks Dorado Express is in Dorado’s Maguayo sector. “This new store has been designed to provide a unique, convenient, safe and relaxed experience for our […]
Puerto Rico Rum Journey, a tool to generate traffic and facilitate visiting different rum distilleries located throughout the Island, was unveiled recently to allow users to interact with seven distilleries, create a route of visits, and make reservations for excursions, tastings, seminars, and mixology classes, among other experiences. The app — available for download through Google Play and […]
The Puerto Rico Treasury Department confirmed that despite the need of more staff, close to 1.2 million income tax returns for individuals and corporations for taxable year 2020 have been processed, which represents 99% of the total returns filed. Of that total, about 1 million have received their refunds. “We have quickly disbursed close to […]
The Department of Economic Development and Commerce (DDEC, in Spanish) and the U.S. Small Business Administration are urging small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and nonprofits to apply for the Economic Damage Disaster Loan if their operations have been hit by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic before the Dec. 31 deadline. On Oct. 8, the […]
The U.S. Small Business Administration and the SBA Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands District are accepting nominations for national and local awards to be presented as part of National Small Business Week 2022, including the Small Businessperson of the Year award. The SBA has a dedicated website to download forms, criteria, and guidelines for submitting a […]
The strong 2021 reactivation of tourism in Puerto Rico allowed the industry to recover about 96% of the jobs lost in the Leisure and Hospitality sector during the COVID-19 pandemic, Discover Puerto Rico confirmed. Data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show that between March and April of 2020, the number of people […]
San Juan-based Health Gorilla, a provider of interoperability solutions in Latin America, and Snabb, a healthcare scheduling platform in Chile, have partnered to create one of the country’s first national laboratory networks. Snabb has built clinical partnerships with a variety of providers in Chile and allows patients to quickly schedule an appointment with any telehealth […]
Real estate firm Realty ONE Group will be making its entrance into the Puerto Rico market through the recent sale of its franchise rights to a broker already familiar with the “purpose-driven lifestyle brand.” Greg Bardell, the broker/owner of Realty ONE Group Unlimited in Lancaster, PA, will develop Puerto Rico and the entire Eastern Caribbean […]
The Puerto Rico Hotel & Tourism Association (PRHTA) recently held its traditional Tourism Superstars award ceremony, which acknowledges the outstanding performance of supervisors and managers of all levels in the island’s tourism industry. The event took place at the San Juan Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino, in Condado. PRHTA has celebrated this event for more […]
Invest Puerto Rico (InvestPR), the island’s economic development organization, announced the launch of a new brand, a redesigned website and the new “Game-Changers, Welcome Home” campaign, an $4.7 million effort to “elevate the island as a business destination.” The media investment comes from an allocation of funds under the Department of Housing’s CDBG-DR program “dedicated […]
Puerto Rico-based Wovenware, a nearshore provider of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital transformation solutions, announced it has been chosen as the software and AI development partner for global biotechnology firm CDI Labs, also based on the island. Through the partnership, Wovenware is creating the technology for a next-generation COVID-19 rapid antigen single-use, self-testing kit. “Wovenware […]
Three of the world’s 50 best places to travel in 2022 are in Puerto Rico, according to Travel Lemming. Aguada, Utuado, and Guánica all make appearances on the online travel guide’s annual list of emerging destinations. The list was selected by Travel Lemming’s team of 15 travel writers and editors, with an emphasis on destinations […]
The Puerto Rico Labor Department will implement a new virtual platform for the island’s unemployment program — a $22 million project for which it has hired the firm Geographic Solution to work in collaboration with the Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Services (PRITS) office. The new platform will be developed in phases and will be […]
The Condado Plaza Hilton will get back into the casino business, with the projected opening of a new 15,000 square-foot gaming space that will house 300 slot machines and dozens of gaming tables. The Condado Plaza Hilton, which shuttered its casino in 2015, got its endorsement from the Puerto Rico Gaming Commission, putting it one […]
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