The Boys and Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico, along with the Department of Housing and the Public Housing Administration, recently re-inaugurated its first club at the Ernesto Ramos Antonini housing project in Río Piedras.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development office in Puerto Rico announced Monday the availability of repossessed homes for sale on the island.
Samuel J. Boyd, Jr. chief investment officer and director of program development of the office of investment and innovation at the Small Business Administration, visited Puerto Rico this past weekend to take part in a series of events hosted by Grupo Guayacán Inc. as part its ongoing efforts to promote a vibrant risk capital ecosystem on the island.
Advertising agency DDB Latina Puerto Rico won a Golden Sun award, three Silver Sun awards and a Bronze Sun award in the most important creative competition of the Spanish-and Portuguese-speaking markets, the Festival Iberoamericano de la Publicidad, for works created for its clients Unilever of Puerto Rico and the Department of Justice.
Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport officials, along with partners Hugo Neu Environmental, announced Tuesday the launching of “Green Airport, an initiative that promotes public awareness of the importance of recycling in Puerto Rico.
Aon plc, a risk management, brokerage, reinsurance, and human resources consulting and outsourcing services firm, is inviting students to participate in its call for the Aon Scholarship Fund for Talented Students through the Puerto Rico Community Fund (FCPR, by its Spanish acronym). The outreach effort closes May 1, 2015.
Greenbriar Capital Corp. announced Monday its partnership with Atherton Pacific Green of Newport Beach California for engineering, procurement, and construction of the 100 MW "Smart Grid" Montalva Photovoltaic Solar Project in Puerto Rico.
Transaction processing company EVERTEC Inc. announced Monday a new merit and needs based scholarship program, designed to recognize and reward Puerto Rico students who have demonstrated academic success, as well as significant accomplishments in community service.
The U. S. Small Business Administration Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands district office recently kicked-off the first ever Emerging Leaders training series on the island and announced the participants selected for the Class of 2015.
Nine Guaynabo schools recovered 110 tons of recyclable materials as part of the “Earth Recycling Challenge,” a contest organized by Hugo Neu Environmental in partnership with the town of Guaynabo and the Environmental Awareness Foundation.
The University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez and Ahkeo Holdings LLC, a Puerto Rico based conglomerate focused on renewable energy solutions, recently partnered to establish the island’s first Microgrid Power System Laboratory to develop electrical redistribution options that can either run independently of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and within the network connection, if necessary.
The Puerto Rico Sales and Marketing Executives Association will hold its annual conference on May 7-8, from 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., at the Sheraton Puerto Rico Hotel & Casino titled, focusing on “What’s next?” for the industry.
U.S. Department of Agriculture officials from the agency’s Agricultural Marketing Service, Food and Nutrition Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and Rural Development, joined Puerto Rico’s First Lady, Wilma Pastrana on Wednesday to announce the expansion of its StrikeForce for Rural Growth and Opportunity program into Puerto Rico.
The U.S. Small Business Administration’s “Boots to Business” program has trained 25,000 transitioning service members over the past two years, in collaboration with the Department of Defense, the SBA announced Tuesday.
A recently released global study commissioned by EMC Corporation revealed that the majority of industry leaders worldwide believes new technologies have forever changed the rules of business, “democratizing information and rewiring customer expectations.”
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