In the early 2000s, Marisol Santiago from Villalba was gainfully employed in the healthcare industry, providing for her family while investing in her future. However, following the onset of the global recession, which still plagues Puerto Rico, Marisol was laid off from her job.
The Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico announced Wednesday that, as part of its efforts to increase transparency and improve investor relations, it has made additional disclosure materials available on its website.
Surprises abounded this fall when the 1,300-member Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association sponsored its first official mission to Cuba to learn about potential business opportunities there.
Renown marine wildlife artist and conservationist Dr. Guy Harvey will join forces with Pesca, Playa y Ambiente, a Puerto Rican nonprofit organization, and hundreds of volunteers in a massive cleanup effort in a San Juan lagoon and estuary system highly-regarded as a tarpon habitat.
The CPA Society, in collaboration with the Center for Public and Corporate Governance at the University of Turabo, will host "The challenges of governance: proposing solutions to the crisis” forum this Friday, when a group of international speakers will share their views on the subject.
The economic challenges Puerto Rico has been facing for over a decade now (and the fact that during that time Latin America has experienced an historic growth in which many of us did not participate) remain the thorn in the side of local enterprises, which titanically still hold together much of our economy.
With the U.S. Shale revolution and Cheniere on the cusp of exporting natural gas, Trinidad & Tobago's biggest LNG customer is soon to become its main competitor.
Is there really such a thing as an online persona? According to a new global study from MasterCard released Tuesday, the answer is, yes.
Although mostly the dominion of programmers and many a computer scientist, a businessperson should often take on the concept of algorithms to better understand the logic on how a corporation’s data is juggled about in cyberspace.
Wireless carrier Claro announced Monday the inclusion of nine additional Puerto Rican towns into its high-speed 4G LTE network, through which clients can reach transmission speeds of up to 50 megabits per second through their mobile devices.
Various publications have recently highlighted Puerto Rico’s economic troubles as reflected in the municipal bond market.
Following an investment of $400,000, wireless carrier Open Mobile Puerto Rico unveiled the addition of 10 new kiosks in malls throughout the island.
Wireless competitors AT&T and T-Mobile announced expansions to their Puerto Rico 4G LTE networks, which for the latter carrier also represented adding new jobs in the area of customer service.
The Web is full of useful data analysis for small business professionals. It's all out there in a vast ocean of binary information just waiting to be fished out by the deft explorer.
A new financial regulation defining “qualified mortgages” is due to take effect in January 2014. It would make the approval process for a mortgage stricter, both in the United States and Puerto Rico.
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