Liberty Puerto Rico announced Monday the opening of a new customer service center at Aguadilla Mall to offer more efficiency and convenience to customers in northwestern Puerto Rico.
Crunch Fitness Club will open its newest location in Puerto Rico in March, a $1.5 million, 30,000 square-foot gym at Plaza del Caribe in Ponce, company officials announced Monday.
FirstBank's Small Business Unit granted two loans under the SBA Express and SBA 7(a) Programs to Optifarma, LLC for the purchase of inventory and operational capital, the bank announced. The amount of the loans were undisclosed.
The Puerto Rico's Science, Technology and Research Trust announced Wednesday it will invest $225,000 in three startups through the recently created follow-up fund Parallel18 Ventures.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that Tuesday that PAZOS Fixed Base Operator Service opened a new general aviation processing facility at the Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in Carolina.
PharmPix, a local full-service Pharmacy Benefits Management (PBM) company, has again earned URAC accreditation in its field, the company announced Tuesday.
The United Nations Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights has called for fair solutions to the huge debt crisis in Puerto Rico, warning that ratcheting up austerity measures will threaten residents’ human rights and worsen the U.S. territory’s “intolerable” poverty levels.
The Puerto Rico Investment Summit, the Caribbean’s foremost investor’s conference, will celebrate its 5th edition March 2-3, at the Puerto Rico Convention Center, organizers announced.
Two bond insurance subsidiaries of Assured Guaranty Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, Assured Guaranty, have made interest payments to holders of insured General Obligation and other bonds after Puerto Rico and certain of its agencies failed to pay on Jan. 3.
On a non-seasonally adjusted basis (NSA), the Purchasing Managers Index for Puerto Rico’s manufacturing sector edged down to 49.1 in November, suggesting a contraction in the sector with respect to the previous month.
Puerto Rico Economic Development and Commerce Department Secretary-designate Manuel Laboy-Rivera said Tuesday given the island’s fiscal crisis, he has already begun implementing the economic measures set forth by Gov. Ricardo Rosselló this week.
DCDB Group, a global financial services consultancy firm, and Elevation, the consulting arm of NACHA–The Electronic Payments Association, administrator of the U.S. ACH Network, have formed a strategic partnership.
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority announced Wednesday the payment of $192.5 million in interest on its power revenue bonds due on Jan. 1, 2017.
Puerto Rican shoe retailer Novus Inc. announced the opening of its first store in the U.S. mainland, located in the Pembroke Lakes Mall, one of the most visited shopping centers in Broward Country and centrally located between Miami and Palm Beach, Florida.
Experiencing a 96 percent reduction in the number of new Zika cases since the peak in October 2016, the Puerto Rico Tourism Company expressed optimism recently heading into 2017.
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