Members of a newly formed nonprofit, non-partisan organization under the name Puerto Rico is the Answer has taken upon itself the task of actively help international investor prospects identify and set up attractive business ventures on the island, using fiscal autonomy as the cornerstone of the effort.
With the goal of stimulating the investment of national and foreign capital, a group of Puerto Rican experts in the fields of finance and economy have come together to create action-tank “Puerto Rico is the Answer,” to drum up investments for the island.
The upcoming Coffee & Chocolate Expo promises to draw thousands of visitors to the convention center and generate up to $350,000 in sales, according to the planners of the activity.
Puerto Rico improved its standing in the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Competitive index, taking 32nd place in the 2014-2015 list and climbing two notches from last year.
Several decades after the term was first tossed around as a potential revenue-generator for Puerto Rico, high-ranking government officials announced Tuesday the start of a formal effort to develop medical tourism as an economic sector for the island.
Luca Center and PRSoft have entered into a strategic alliance that provides a 20 percent discount on the 2014 and 2015 versions of software programs PRTax, PRCorp, PRPay, PropTax and PRivu to individuals who sign up for the $299 annual Luca Center membership by Sept. 30.
The Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company and the Site Selectors Guild announced Tuesday that Puerto Rico has been selected as the host city of the 2015 Site Selectors Guild Annual Conference.
TAIPEI — Both are relatively tiny islands that have complicated relationships with the giant superpowers that claim them. Both use tax incentives to lure U.S. factories to their shores — despite the absence of full-fledged embassies in Washington — and the political status of both islands is a never-ending source of debate among local voters.
The Puerto Rico Professional College of Engineers and Surveyors will present a conference on the rescue of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, offered by the collapsed ship’s salvage master, Captain Nick Sloane, who was responsible for directing the work of refloating the vessel that ran aground off the coast of Italy.
NEW YORK — Colombia, a country that in the first quarter of 2014 saw an economic growth of 6.4 percent year-over-year, is aggressively pursuing business opportunities in the Americas through commercial agreements with a spectrum of sectors.
Sixteen students from the University of Puerto Rico’s Mayagüez campus will travel to Austin, Texas, for the 2014 American Solar Challenge, a competition that challenges teams of university students to design, build and race solar-powered vehicles.
Midway through 2014, it may be too early yet to say for sure whether Puerto Rico's advertising industry will grow, stay flat or lose ground this year but one thing is sure: even in these difficult economic times for the island, some agencies are growing and clients continue to advertise.
Since its launch in February 2013, Antrocket.com has raised nearly $100,000 in funds for sundry enterprises, will soon add a new category to its lineup of fundable projects and intends to be a player in equity crowdfunding once the federal law allowing this type of activity is implemented.
Eleven companies have been selected to participate in Grupo Guayacán’s Guayacán Venture Accelerator, an executive education program designed for growing companies with proven business models, an established clientele, and a management team willing and able to effectively execute, in parallel with the program, the strategies derived from the each of the educational modules.
UBS Puerto Rico has been restructured into two separate divisions and its top management has been reshuffled as part of changes that include the exit of long-time chairman Miguel Ferrer, who will leave his post July 31, a high-ranking executive said Thursday.
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