The towns of Moca, Manatí, Jayuya, Canóvanas and Barceloneta have been assigned a combined $405,312 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to make critical repairs and improve housing conditions for low- and very-low-income rural residents.
The attorney for Pop Artist Romero Britto said Thursday that about 60 of the defendants sued nearly eight weeks ago for copyright and trademark infringement violations are in talks to settle the damages they have caused the Miami-based company.
The Pontifical Catholic University in Ponce has invested some $20 million over the past two years in its facilities, human resources and to strengthen its research programs to enrich its academic offer, school officials said Thursday.
First it was Netflix and now its Redbox’s turn to raise movie rental rates. The self-service kiosk operator will raise daily rental charges on DVD’s by 20 percent, to $1.20, from the current $1, effective Monday.
Claro President Enrique Ortiz de Montellano publicly urged consumers Wednesday to continue exerting pressure on the Telecommunications Regulatory Board to issue the cable franchise license the company requested nearly three years ago to deploy its Internet Protocol TV service.
Less than a year after unveiling the island’s first network capable of offering 4G speeds, T-Mobile announced Wednesday plans to expand the high-speed service in more than 40 municipalities that include the areas of Naranjito, Juana Díaz, Luquillo, Las Marías, Toa Alta, Florida, Lares, and Canóvanas.
U.S. Farm Credit Administration officials are on the island week to take a look at the agriculture industry and hold a series of meetings with Puerto Rico government officials to discuss the state of policies and lending programs that impact local farmers and producers. The visit is the result of a joint effort between the Agriculture Department and the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration, the agencies announced Wednesday.
After failed attempts to convince online retailer Amazon to reinstate its free shipping option to Puerto Rico, the Consumer Affairs Department is preparing to file a lawsuit against the Seattle, WA-based company for discriminatory practices, News is my Business confirmed Tuesday.
Members of the island’s banking sector continue building on expanding the concept of “participatory democracy” through community reinvestment initiatives that are the focus of its 9th annual Community Reinvestment Week event that wraps up Friday.
Agriculture Secretary Javier Rivera-Aquino has set off an agressive strategic plan to convince private banks, which for years have shied away from the volatile sector, to invest in farming activity and new projects.
Readers of Smart Meetings magazine, a monthly publication for meetings and convention planners, have chosen the Puerto Rico Convention Bureau as a winner of the 8th Annual 2011 Platinum Choice Award.
The Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce will sponsor next month the “Puerto Rico Telecom Conference 2011: The New Future,” through which it seeks to give participants a chance to exchange ideas on telecommunications technologies, achieving greater Internet access, and how going online can help companies to grow, reach new markets, and innovate.
Two years after a historic explosion rocked the former Caribbean Petroleum Corp. fuel depot in Bayamón, its new owner Puma Energy Caribe is on the verge of completing a $32 million investment to transform the site into a state-of-the-art facility, company officials said Monday.
Shopping center operators, such as DDR Corp., that manage a sizeable portfolio of malls are looking more toward remodeling existing properties rather than building new ones from scratch — a trend that will likely stick for the next two or three years, John Kokinchak, senior executive vice president of the company told News is my Business in a recent interview.
The Instituto de Radioterapia del Este, a radiotherapy cancer treatment center featuring the most advanced and innovative technology recently opened in Humacao, following an $11 million investment. Owners promise quicker treatments with the best success rates in Puerto Rico, Latin America and the Caribbean.
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