Following its 2013 award, the O:live Boutique Hotel again has been nominated in 2014 by the London based International Boutique Hotel Awards in the category of best-inspired design in America and the World, hotel executives announced Monday.
Puerto Rico’s Economic Activity Index continued its free-fall in September, when according to the Government Development Bank there was a 1.8 percent year-over-year drop in the results, marking yet another month of contraction.
José Rafael Fernández, president of OFG Bancorp and its subsidiary, Oriental Bank, headed a delegation of company employees and clients, to ring the closing Bell of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, celebrating the bank’s 50th anniversary and the 20th anniversary of OFG Bancorp’s exchange listing.
Some 7,000 Puerto Rican professionals from a gamut of sectors applied for a Department of Education-backed free conversational English course that had only 550 spaces available, showing the need for this type of education to language skills, officials from America Aponte & Associates, the company hired to teach the classes, said Tuesday.
Liberty Puerto Rico announced Tuesday that effective March 15, 2015, Google’s Google Apps ISP will stop supporting all e-mail addresses in its service, including those for the onelinkpr.net domain.
News is my Business, now approaching its fourth anniversary, has gained a significant international following in the last quarter, since its integration into the New York-based Dow Jones News Service.
A renewed slide in investor confidence, on the heels of worsening economic and budgetary trends in Puerto Rico, raises the specter that in the absence of enlightened political leadership in San Juan, the U.S. Congress may soon have to establish a federal oversight board to manage the Commonwealth’s grave fiscal situation.
Integrated communications campaign “I Love Puerto Rico Tomatoes” promoting the local tomato harvest for 2014, received top awards by the Puerto Rico Sales and Marketing Association during the recently held annual Marketing Excellence Awards Summit.
Popular Inc. reported Wednesday net income of $62.6 million for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, which represents a 72 percent drop when compared to the $229.1 million reported for the same year-ago period.
OPEN Puerto Rico received what it called “a strong vote of confidence” this week from Nicholas Prouty, CEO of Putnam Bridge Funding LLC, who made an undisclosed donation to help the organization continue its efforts to facilitate and promote transparency in Puerto Rico.
Luxury automaker Infiniti recently sponsored the presentation of the World Stars of Classical Ballet Gala at the Luis A. Ferré Fine Arts Center in Santurce.
Mercedes-Benz this week unveiled two C-Class models: C300 4MATIC and the and a C400 4MATIC for the Puerto Rico market, which are currently on display as part of the Puerto Rico International Auto Show at the Plaza las Américas mall in Hato Rey.
Hyatt Hotels Corp., PRISA Group and McConnell Valdés Consulting broke ground Tuesday on Puerto Rico’s fourth Hyatt-branded select service hotel, the $29.7 million Hyatt Place San Juan.
As part of its initiative to enhance public disclosure, the Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico recently provided a “special liquidity update,” while the Treasury Department posted a Commonwealth General Fund cash flow projection for Fiscal 2015.
A group of Doral Bank employees held a news conference Thursday, urging Gov. Alejandro García-Padilla to stop the government’s “attack” on their workplace, and “save their jobs.”
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