Puerto Rico’s economy stands to score $45 million from the celebration of the sixth edition of the World Baseball Classic in San Juan and the PGA Tour Puerto Rico Open in Río Grande this week, two events that draw significant tourism and put the island on the map, Tourism Company Executive Director Ingrid Rivera-Rocafort said Wednesday.
Domestic ocean shipping company Horizon Lines Inc. announced Wednesday it will move its northeast terminal operations to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from Elizabeth, New Jersey, effective April 11, 2013.
The University of Miami School of Business Administration announced Wednesday a new scholarship program to support participants in its Puerto Rico Executive MBA program. Scholarships ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 will be available to qualified individuals who are admitted to the class beginning in October 2013.
In an effort to promote education and foster technological advancement for residents of the Municipality of Caguas, the Telecommunications Regulatory Board and the municipal government officially opened Wednesday the town’s first community center with free Internet access.
With the philosophy of “The best new cars make the best used cars,” Toyota de Puerto Rico unveiled Tuesday its Toyota Certified Used Vehicles program, to make available the same levels of quality, durability and reliability that a new Toyota offers to previously owned car buyers.
While Puerto Rico failed to make the list of Orbitz.com’s list of favorite Spring Break travel locations for the stateside college crowd, San Juan however, ranked among the online travel site’s most popular family spots for the same week-long period later this month.
For more than three years, high-fashion shop Eco Boutique Renovable has been benefitting countless of underprivileged women in Puerto Rico through donations of previously owned clothing and accessories, meeting its goal of recycling and reusing quality items.
Wireless carrier Sprint is moving along with plans to expand its 4G LTE throughout Puerto Rico, adding the capital city of San Juan to the list of local areas where customers can tap into the next-generation digital platform.
Friedman & Feiger, one of the top law firms in Dallas, Texas, recently celebrated the inauguration of its first office outside the continental U.S., with an informal Open House and ribbon cutting ceremony in Hato Rey.
Reaffirming its commitment to Puerto Rico, JetBlue Airways announced today new direct service from San Juan to Chicago’s O’Hare Airport starting Nov. 20. The decision reflects the island’s largest carrier’s approval of the result of the process leading up to the selection of the new administrator of Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, the company said.
Puerto Rico needs to find alternative ways to govern itself that include all members of society with the single-minded goal of seeking solutions to its overwhelming fiscal and social problems, or risk going down the same path as Detroit, once a thriving city that is now desolate and in a state of emergency.
Information technologies and communication act as great amplifiers: if the education system is efficient, they improve it, and if it is inefficient, they make it worse, because the challenge of education today is to personalize education. So said Augusto Ibáñez, corporate editorial director of Spain’s Fundación SM, who was recently on the island, invited by the Puerto Rico Association of Private Education.
Puerto Rican travel agency wholesalers AAA Tours, Good Quality Tours and Sorymar Tours are among some 270 companies from 39 countries that took part in the Colombia Travel Mart fair in Bogotá and Medellín last week.
Garage Isla Verde, Puerto Rico’s only authorized Mercedes-Benz dealer, is rolling out an aggressive growth strategy this year to broaden its customer base that includes breaking ground on a new $9 million dealership in Mayagüez, company executives said Thursday.
Gov. Alejandro García-Padilla detailed Thursday the progress of his administration’s strategies to revive the island’s economy, saying among other things that the private sector has already pledged to create 15,896 of the 50,000 he vowed to lock down in the first 18 months of his tenure.
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