The concerns expressed by the island’s wireless carriers and retailers over the potentially harmful effects of regulating the sale of prepaid cellphones on consumers and competition apparently fell on deaf ears, as Gov. Luis Fortuño signed Tuesday a law mandating it.
Despite the ups and downs it had in 2010, Banco Popular has been selected Puerto Rico’s “Bank of the Year” by “The Banker” magazine, a highly respected publication in circulation since 1926 and run by the Financial Times.
For the second time in as many months, the government’s 40-year Public-Private Partnership concession of the PR-22/PR5 highways has nabbed an award from a prestigious international group, this time from London’s Project Finance International, a global project finance intelligence source and a unit of Thomson Reuters Professional Publishing.