ALPFA hosts excel workshop for college students
March 2, 2015
The Puerto Rico chapter of the Association of Latino Professionals for America, known as ALPFA, recently hosted its second annual Excel workshop program during which a group of undergraduate students from different universities had the opportunity to learn the software program.
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FCC, REGULATEL sign MOU to manage regional efforts
February 27, 2015
The Latin American Forum of Telecommunications Regulators, known as REGULATEL, and the Federal Communications Commission’s International Bureau recently signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a cooperative relationship between both organizations to direct regional initiatives.
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Golden Mile building The Hato Rey Center, to be updated
February 27, 2015
Puerto Rico’s financial district will have a key player, The Hato Rey Center, renovated and brought up-to-date with state-of-the-art equipment, and its façade brought back to its original grandeur, building owner NAI Puerto Rico said Thursday.
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FDIC, Court deliver twin blows to ailing Doral Bank
February 26, 2015
Doral Bank was on the receiving end of major blows by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Appellate Court Wednesday, just before it's time as a member of Puerto Rico’s financial community could come to an end.
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Drinking water to be focus of AIDIS-Puerto Rico congress
February 26, 2015
Issues and challenges related to drinking water, climate change and its impact on water bodies, new water purification technologies will be some of the main discussions of the XII Puerto Rican Congress of Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Sciences that will be held March 4-6 at the Metropolitan Campus of the Inter American University.
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Dept. of Commerce hosts intellectual property seminar
February 24, 2015
Intellectual property rights experts from the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Patents and Trademark Office will be in Puerto Rico on Feb. 25 to offer information on how local businesses can protect their intellectual property rights when they are exporting their product and services to the U.S. mainland and overseas markets.
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Planning Board OKs $3B in location consultations in ’14
February 23, 2015
The Puerto Rico Planning Board informed that at the end of 2014 it had approved 52 location consultations, representing a future investment of $3 billion and the potential to create 25,000 jobs.
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Minority suppliers, multinationals to meet this week
February 23, 2015
The Puerto Rico Minority Supplier Development Council will celebrate the 13th edition the “2015 Opportunity Fair,” under the slogan “Economic Revitalization in Motion” at the Puerto Rico Convention Center, Feb. 27 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., the group announced.
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Moody’s pushes Commonwealth credit deeper into junk
February 20, 2015
For the second time in less than a week, Puerto Rico’s credit rating has gotten slashed, this time by Moody's Investors Service, which downgraded the Commonwealth’s general obligation bonds and guaranteed debt to Caa1 from B2, its Sales Tax Financing Corporation (COFINA) senior and subordinate bonds, respectively, to B3 and Caa1 from Ba3 and B1, and the notes of the Government Development Bank, to Caa1 from B3.
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Congress to study bill to add PR to U.S. bankruptcy code
February 20, 2015
A subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee announced Thursday it will hold a hearing on House Resolution 870, known as the Puerto Rico Chapter 9 Uniformity Act of 2015, at 11:30 a.m. on Feb. 26th in Washington D.C.
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Op-Ed: Tech systems will be key to launching tax reform
February 20, 2015
At the Puerto Rico Information Technology Cluster we believe that the potential success of the implementation of a value added tax system and how fair it could be for Puerto Ricans will depend largely on the strength of information systems that are launched to support it.
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Seaborne Airlines to launch San Juan-Anguilla service
February 19, 2015
Seaborne Airlines announced Wednesday the addition of non-stop service between the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport and Clayton J. Lloyd International airport on the island of Anguilla, starting April 30, 2015.
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Abarca Health set to hit U.S. market via new subsidiary
February 18, 2015
Abarca Health, a Puerto Rico-based company dedicated to pharmacy benefit management, announced during its recent 10th anniversary celebration the opening of its new division, Abarca Technologies and its plans to expand and export services this year.
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USDA announces funding for green energy projects
February 18, 2015
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Tuesday that rural agricultural producers and small business owners across the mainland and Puerto Rico can now apply for resources to purchase and install renewable energy systems or make energy efficiency improvements.
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SBA launches LINC, new online matching tool
February 17, 2015
The Small Business Administration has launched a first-of-its-kind tool on the federal agency’s website that will allow entrepreneurs looking for a small business loan to get matched with an SBA lender.
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