Looking to lay the groundwork to advance the growth of the medicinal cannabis industry, Puerto Rico will host the second edition of Puerto Rico MedCann.Biz, an interdisciplinary forum that will bring together all the components of this new treatment alternative for patients with debilitating medical conditions in the island.
Puerto Rico’s medical tourism recently nabbed the international spotlight, winning the 2016 Global Accreditation Destination of the Year Award from Medical Tourism Association (MTA) at the 9th World Medical Tourism Congress held in Washington DC last week.
A pre-audit survey report released Monday by the Commission for the Comprehensive Audit of the Public Credit of Puerto Rico analyzing a $673 million bond issue by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority has raised a number of questionable aspects of the transaction completed in 2013.
Creative industries — those dedicated to design, arts, media and services — generate nearly 70,000 jobs and $10 billion for the Puerto Rican economy, representing about 5.7% of sales generated by all companies on the island, the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute disclosed in a recent report.
WASHINGTON — Half a dozen tax attorneys and D.C. policy wonks bickered Tuesday over how to bring Puerto Rico out of its perennial economic crisis in the context of PROMESA, the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act.
In Puerto Rico’s embattled economy, everyone is at risk. Nonprofit organizations are no exception.
Espacios Abiertos, a nonprofit organization that promotes transparency, announced Tuesday the creation of a website where it will post documents generated or published by the Fiscal Oversight Board.
Atlanta-based John Dixon & Associates, which recently took on the challenge of selling off a portfolio for a United States-based equity fund, sold $3.6 million in properties in Puerto Rico via auction, the company confirmed Thursday.
The Puerto Rico Products Association unveiled Wednesday it’s latest institutional effort urging residents to buy local, saying that for every dollar households invest in island-made goods and services, imports are reduced by 5 percent.
Three out of four households in Puerto Rico, or 74.9 percent, confirmed in a study that they made charitable donations in 2014, a high rate of giving, especially compared to similar data in the U.S., which shows 55.8 percent of mainland U.S. households giving to charity in 2013.
The Puerto Rico Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America recently unveiled its proposal for the “Revitalization of vital infrastructure on the island."
The Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce (CofC) unveiled Wednesday its proposal to drive job creation and attract new capital investment to the island called Puerto Rico Empresa Inc., a public-private partnership to promote across-the-board collaboration.
Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will be among the speakers invited to the second edition of the Animus summit, an innovation platform designed to “maximize women's economic and personal development around business, mindfulness, empowerment, and entrepreneurship,” slated to take place Sept. 30 at the Caribe Hilton Hotel.
Grupo Guayacán Inc. (GGI) kicked off SPRINGBOARD this weekend, its newest entrepreneurial development offering and the first program in Puerto Rico geared at preparing local start-ups to raise early stage capital in order to grow their ventures, the seed funding firm confirmed.
The Puerto Rico Builders Association unveiled Thursday its proposal for economic development that focuses on strengthening private enterprise as an axis of local production and empowering the third sector to develop communities.
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