The Puerto Rico Health Department has enacted a series of amendments to its medicinal cannabis regulations that impose new restrictions on doctors, patients and businesses while allowing municipalities to operate cannabis dispensaries, announced advocacy group Puerto Rico Legal Marijuana.
The Corporation for the Financing of Business and Communities (known as COFECC in Spanish) has reinvented itself, adopting a new brand — Lendreams — while reinforcing its micro-loans program, company officials announced Wednesday.
The Ponce Medical School Foundation Inc. is joining the Puerto Rico Consortium for Clinical Investigation to further clinical research on the island.
The Puerto Rico Department of Housing and housing developer McCormack Baron Salazar Inc. announced the closing of some $41.3 million in financing for what they call “the next major milestone in Puerto Rico’s affordable housing transformation effort.”
Hopes of expanding Puerto Rico’s boating industry could get a buoyant lift with the planned construction of a new, $10 million marina.
With an investment of more than $2.8 million metropistas, the company in charge of the operation and maintenance of the PR-22 and PR-5 highways, has replaced the lights of the lighting system of both roads with the new LED technology, the company announced Wednesday.
Access Latina, a business acceleration platform for Latina-owned firms headquartered in Florida, New York, Massachusetts, Texas, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, launched its second cohort to compete for a chance at more than $100,000 in capital and resources for latinas to grow their businesses.
Grupo Guayacán Inc. has granted $50,000 in seed funding to three companies that graduated from the first edition of the SPRINGBOARD program, the nonprofit announced Monday.
Grupo Guayacán, Inc. (GGI) announced Wednesday the official launch of the new Puerto Rico IDEA Seed Fund, in collaboration with Fundación Banco Popular, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and several entrepreneurs participating as private investors.
Balancing the government checkbook will not solve an economic crisis like the one Puerto Rico is facing.
The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico is reviewing the government’s proposed Fiscal and Economic Growth Plan — which on Friday was met with criticism by a cross-section of the island’s business community — and should be finished by Jan. 31.
The Comprehensive Cancer Center Hospital at the University of Puerto Rico will receive its first patients this February, three years after the start of its construction.
The Youth Development Institute of Puerto Rico (YDI) submitted to the Puerto Rico’s Economic Development Taskforce a report with public policy recommendations and solutions to reduce childhood poverty.
News is my Business, Puerto Rico’s first English-language, fully digital business news website, is marking its sixth anniversary today as it looks forward to upholding its mission to deliver a broad snapshot of the island’s most significant stories.
Colmena66, a new specialized network that offers entrepreneurs, merchants and organizations tools and referral services, free of charge, was unveiled Wednesday to help participants start and grow their businesses in Puerto Rico.
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