ORLANDO, FL. — The InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico’s plans to have a new bilingual campus in Lake Nona is becoming a reality, after the Orange County government gave its approval for its construction at the end of last year. Orange County District 4 Commissioner Maribel Gómez-Cordero told News is My Business that she presented […]
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi announced the creation of a steering committee to oversee the Public Private Partnership contract to run the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s transmission and distribution granted to LUMA Energy. The steering committee was established in response to Executive Order 2021-012, which calls for overseeing and ensuring that the enactment of the contract […]
The Puerto Rico Treasury Department has filed an application to participate in the newly announced Emergency Rental Assistance Program run by the U.S. Department of the Treasury that could represent $325 million in aid for the island, this media outlet confirmed. The federal government is making a total of $25 billion available to assist households […]
The Puerto Rico Community Foundation will receive $25 million in government funding to establish energy redundancy systems that include solar systems and emergency generators in Puerto Rico community aqueducts, to guarantee their uninterrupted operation given that they provide drinking water to thousands of families, the nonprofit announced. The Foundation signed a grant funding contract with […]
About 80 buyers from different government agencies are being transitioned into the General Services Administration, as part of the new government procurement system to generate efficiencies, agency Director Karla Mercado-Rivera announced. The transition should take about 90 days to complete, she said. “Once this transition is complete, all government purchases will be made centrally with […]
Department of Economic Development and Commerce Secretary Manuel Cidre will head to Washington, D.C. next month to lobby — along with Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González — for the permanence of Puerto Rico’s status as a hub for foreign air carriers. Extending the two-year waiver that the U.S. Department of Transportation granted the island in April […]
Puerto Rican undergraduate students majoring in electrical, mechanical, computer, agricultural, or industrial engineering, as well as computer science, will have the opportunity to participate in the “Challenge to Innovate: NASA Edition” competition. The initiative of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust’s pre18 program and its Technology Transfer Office, together with Engine-4, will offer […]
Social media users were swamped the past year with recommendations to protect their privacy and get rid of TikTok from their cell phones. TikTok is a video social networking app owned by the Beijing-based company ByteDance. United States security agencies think it has too many ties to the Chinese government, which is not an anomaly […]
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), in consultation with the US Department of Treasury, announced that the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) will re-open this week for new borrowers and certain existing PPP borrowers. To promote access to capital, only community financial institutions will be able to make the initial PPP loans starting today, and a second […]
The San Sebastián Street Festival, celebrated every year in January for four days straight in Old San Juan, will not be held in person this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, eliminating crowds, sales, and limiting the exposure of independent vendors in the historic zone, this media outlet confirmed through several interviews. This week, San […]
Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, known as ASUR — and a 60% joint venture partner in Aerostar Airport Holdings, LLC, operator of the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport — reported a 45.2% drop total passenger traffic at the San Juan hub in December 2020, when compared to the same month in 2019. Traffic at the airport […]
The Puerto Rico Treasury Department reported net income to the General Fund during the month of November — the most recent figures available — totaled $656.1 million. Agency Secretary Francisco Parés confirmed that the figure represented $127.8 million, or 24%, over the monthly projection based on the budgetary method. Meanwhile, collections accrued during the first […]
Challenge Fitness announced the opening of its new boutique gym in the Santurce area after an investment of more than $80,000, incorporating strict health measures for the protection of its customers from the COVID-19 pandemic. The new gym has more than 2,000 square feet of space and is segregated into two areas — one dedicated […]
US Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) San Juan Field Office — which is responsible for multiple ports of entry in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands — experienced a 175% growth in the number of counterfeit seizures in Fiscal 2021 to date in contrast to the same period in Fiscal 2020. In Fiscal 2020, […]
Destination marketing organization Discover Puerto Rico has received $15.8 million in funding through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to promote the island as a safe place to visit once the COVID-19 pandemic recedes. Discover Puerto Rico CEO Brad Dean told this media outlet that the funding — which has been granted […]
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