Tonight’s lotto drawing is one of the biggest in island history, promising the winner a whopping $24 million prize. However, the chances of hitting it big are one in 9.3 million, María Victoria León, deputy secretary of the Electronic Lottery, said Wednesday.
A limited number of ultra upscale apartments in two of the three towers of the Paseo Caribe residential and commercial complex overlooking the sparkling blue waters of the Atlantic in San Juan will go up for sale starting this week, through private, by-invitation-only tours, representatives of the developer San Gerónimo Caribe Project Inc., announced Tuesday.
Puerto Rico will be prominently featured in tonights's episode of a new Travel Channel series, “Park Secrets,” that will showcase private islands around the world, the Tourism Company said.
Moody’s Investors Service has placed the ratings of $6.8 billion outstanding Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation's senior sales tax revenue bonds' Aa2 rating and $9.2 billion in subordinate sales tax revenue bonds' A1 rating on review for possible downgrade, the agency announced Tuesday.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office is “actively working” on Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi’s request to determine the economic impact that the cabotage laws have on Puerto Rico, his office said Monday.
Nearly 40 commercial customers who opted out of the $52.2 million settlement that maritime cargo companies Sea Star and Crowley reached with the U.S. government a few months ago have filed a new class-action suit against the carriers at the U.S. District Court in South Carolina.
In line with its renewed service platform launched earlier this month to meet the needs of small and medium businesses, FirstBank and the Small Business Administration announced Monday the first closing under the agency’s pilot 504 loan refinancing program to Coamo Golf Bakery for $173,098.
The Transportation Security Administration announced over the weekend that it will begin testing new technologies designed to enhance its ability to identify altered or fraudulent passenger identification documents and boarding passes at the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, starting Apr. 23.
The $340 million Ritz-Carlton Reserve slated to open in Dorado in December is one more than 70 hotel properties Marriott International is developing in the Caribbean and the Latin American region
A contingent of more than 150 emergency responders were trained over the weekend to handle potential agroterrorism incidents in Puerto Rico, an action that is considered a crime that could affect agriculture, vegetation and food of a community or an entire country.
Struggling electronics retailer Best Buy announced Saturday it will be closing its store in Caguas, located at the Las Catalinas mall, effective May 12.
Renewable energy site developers are hopeful that the process of establishing wind and solar farms in Puerto Rico will get easier as more projects in the pipeline are approved.
Doral Bank revealed Thursday the results of its “Mujeres d Éxito” institutional campaign, through which it has financed a number of initiatives to drive female economic development Puerto Rico, via the “Internado Doral,” “Despegue Empresarial” and “Fondo Doral” programs.
Panama-based Copa Airlines is adding a third daily flight between its hub and the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina starting June 22.
Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation, which has operations in Puerto Rico, has been recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the “World’s Most Ethical Companies” for the sixth consecutive year.
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