The Puerto Rico Science Technology & Research Trust is turning to the startup ecosystem as a contributing solution to Puerto Rico's current economic crisis with the launch of Parallel18, a program with the goal of expanding the horizons of local entrepreneurs in the short term and create economic development in the long run.
Puerto Rico’s current fiscal problems are bringing up unprecedented issues that will likely be subject to interpretation by local and federal courts if the government defaults on its debt and bondholders decide to defend their contractual rights via the lawsuit route.
When Stella Maris church reopens in Condado as a brand new building, sometime within the next year and a half, it will fully integrate with its neighborhood and even turn into a tourist draw.
Once a vigorous part of the economy, Puerto Rico's construction sector remains mired at its lowest point in more than a decade with little hope of improvement in the next year, when activity is expected to stay at its present level of under $2 billion, said a spokesman for the industry.
As if securing a permit to open a business in Puerto Rico weren’t hard enough, the government's digital platform connecting the public to agencies and permitting information is proving a stumbling block for many would-be entrepreneurs.
For the first time since the organization’s re-launch, ALPFA Puerto Rico recently hosted its first Student Chapters Initiation Ceremony, marking a milestone for the local chapter, Raúl Palacios, ALPFA president said.
This week, National Association of Realtors President Chris Polychron and Puerto Rico Association of Realtors President Edgar Morales sent a letter to the island’s House of Representatives to show support for Bill PC2566, which would exclude real estate brokerage services from the commonwealth's Sales and Use Tax and the Value Added Tax.
Two private health care providers in Ponce and Juana Díaz recently announced major investments to upgrade their medical facilities serving Puerto Rico’s southern region.
Two months after the U.S. Navy officially turned over the former Roosevelt Roads hospital and grounds, the Redevelopment Authority for the property is seeking Requests for Proposals from companies interested in leasing and operating the facility.
Independent accounting, taxes and consulting services firm RSM ROC & Company announced Monday it has rebranded as RSM, in line with the adoption of a single global brand by RSM International, the network to which it belongs.
Microjuris.com, the Inter-American Bar Association and the National Organization of Collective Law of Cuba are joining forces to host the “Cuba: Investment, Trade and Financial Guarantees/Forging New Economic Opportunities in the Caribbean” conference Nov. 4-5 at the Puerto Rico Convention Center.
Grupo Guayacán held capacity building workshops for angel investors over the weekend, offered by Troy Knauss, vice president of the Board of Trustees of the Angel Resource Institute.
ORLANDO, FL — National political, civic, business and nonprofit leaders of the Puerto Rican diaspora convened Wednesday for the first time in Orlando, Florida to formulate a “National Puerto Rican Agenda.”
WASHINGTON — With support from a variety of local businesses, Guayama-raised food blogger Jessica van Dop DeJesús has launched a crowdfunding effort to finance “The Dining Traveler Guide to Puerto Rico” — the first Latino-produced travel guides of its kind to be sold in the United States or Europe.
The University of Puerto Rico’s Comprehensive Cancer Center (UPRCCC) will inaugurate its new $15 million Radiotherapy Center in November, featuring the most modern technology available in Puerto Rico for radio-oncology treatments.
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