The Centro Madre Dominga Casa Belén in Ponce received a $20,000 donation from the Monsanto Fund to install a new computer system to provide training to the participants of the Center and optimize its administration, the entities recently announced.
More than 350 gamers converged in Santurce this past Saturday to participate in the “Optico Fiber Gaming — No Lag Allowed” tournament. The event, organized by Electronic Sports Puerto Rico, was held at the Telegrafo building at the hart of the sector’s Digital Corridor.
Earlier this month, the world shook when NBA star Lebron James decided to leave roughly $30 million of guaranteed money on the table and a proven Miami Heat squad to come back home to join his former hometown team the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Shoe Carnival in Puerto Rico is going strong with its local expansion, adding two new stores to its footprint in time for back to school.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing a $60,000 grant to nonprofit ENLACE to design a plan for a new stormwater drainage system along the Marín Peña Channel.
Frozen yogurt retailer Yogen Früz recently opened a new kiosk-type location at the main entrance of the Kmart store in San Patricio Plaza mall in Guaynabo, becoming the first of several planned inside the retailer, company officials said.
With the presentation of the “Women Connection Lounge” at the recently held Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce convention, The Coca-Cola Company joined its #5by20 global program, which aims to empower women around the world by providing tools that contribute to their progress and improvement.
Puerto Rico has nabbed the #1 spot as the ideal Caribbean location for destination weddings in the USA TODAY 10Best Readers' Choice poll, beating out locations such as St. Lucia, Aruba and Key West, Puerto Rico Tourism Company Executive Director Ingrid Rivera said Wednesday.
Agriculture Acting Under Secretary Doug O’Brien announced the availability of more than $33 million to provide safe and affordable housing for farm workers and their families through the Farm Labor Housing Program.
Doral Financial Corp. announced Monday it had entered into an agreement to sell some $824.4 million in non-performing loans to Abbey Finance Holdings PR, LLC, for a discounted amount of $369 million.
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services continued the downgrading streak by credit ratings agencies in recent weeks, by slashing the standing of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct & Sewer Authority and the Government Development Bank on Monday.
Sixteen students from the University of Puerto Rico’s Mayagüez campus will travel to Austin, Texas, for the 2014 American Solar Challenge, a competition that challenges teams of university students to design, build and race solar-powered vehicles.
Cities around the world are destined to become the biggest beneficiaries of the “Internet of Everything” thanks to the enormous possibilities that will automate their processes through the impact of connecting people, processes, data and things together on the same network and the value of this connectivity where "everything" is online and visible.
Declines in pricing of Puerto Rico bonds added further pressure to already depressed net asset values of Puerto Rico mutual funds, according to Fitch Ratings, which added that Fitch-rated Puerto Rico fund managers are reacting swiftly by adding to collateral supporting rated notes and deleveraging where needed.
International financial magazine “Euromoney” has named Santander the “Best Bank in Western Europe, Spain, Mexico and Argentina in its 2014 annual awards.
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