Miami-based United States Hispanic Women Chamber of Commerce will expand its reach to Puerto Rico later this year, when it holds its “Connecting Women, Empowering Minds” convention on the island, event organizers said this week.
Puerto Rican consumers are increasingly becoming more sophisticated and savvy when it comes to buying the food they consume, as they look for quality at good prices, the Food Marketing Industry and Distribution Chamber said Wednesday during a “sneak peek” of this year’s Consumer X-Ray study results.
Gov. Luis Fortuño signed the law approving a $304 million bond issue to finance several infrastructure projects, mainly road improvements, planned throughout the island.
The once manufacturing-centric town of Cidra will see another of its industrial tenants shutting down in August, as a result of Wednesday’s announcement by Ciba Vision that it will cease production of its Specialty Soft line of contact lenses there.
The number of bankruptcy cases filed in May reflected a year-over-year 14 percent drop, with a total of 970 cases filed, research firm Boletín de Puerto Rico said Tuesday.
Local chef and restaurateur Roberto Treviño is less than a week away from opening his newest restaurant, Casa Lola Criollo Kitchen, just a short stretch down Ashford Avenue in Condado from where his three other other restaurants are located. The trendy eatery, which entailed remodeling the historic structure at an investment of more than $500,000, […]
Hato Rey’s Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico broke ground Tuesday on a $10 million renovation and expansion project for its main campus that will result in an improved multipurpose building and the addition of a new pedestrian access, school officials said.
Banco Santander de Puerto Rico recently received the U.S. Small Business Administration’s platinum award for its participation in the agency’s loan guarantee program for the Puerto Rico/U.S. Virgin Islands region.
The Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnerships Authority has confirmed Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley were the front-runners to bid for the privatization project of PR-22, the 52-mile stretch of highway that runs from San Juan to Arecibo, a week after word got out that the New York-based investment banking firms were jockeying for the $1 billion contract.
Fruit juice brand Suiza Fruit launched Tuesday a new promotional effort under the “Thirst for the Road with Suiza Fruit” slogan, urging consumers to share photos or videos of outdoor events and how they are pared with Suiza Fruit products.
The University of Puerto Rico’s Mayagüez Campus is getting $100,000 in financing from the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Co. to work with the island’s food and beverage industry to develop a nutritional labeling and lab testing program.
After many months of talk that it would sell its operation off partially or entirely to offset its financial problems, First BanCorp on Tuesday announced it has entered into a definitive investment agreement with private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. under which THL would purchase about $180 million of the bank’s common stock.
Puerto Rico residents generate between 11,000 and 12,000 tons of waste, or about five pounds per person, every day that goes straight to the island’s landfills. However, through the proposed Puerto Rico Resource and Renewable Energy Project, that habit can change and what is considered waste today could be recycled as fuel in the near future.
Marine Express and America Cruise Ferries will begin offering passenger ferry service between the port of Mayagüez and Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic starting Wednesday.
The majority of Puerto Rico’s banks will remain closed today, in observance of Memorial Day, resuming operations Tuesday.
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