The Puerto Rico Advertising Agencies Association is getting ready to celebrate its 32nd edition of the “Cúspide Advertising Festival 2013,” when it will honor the island’s best ad campaigns. The event taking place May 2-4 will also integrate an educational track and a television special, organizers said.
The International Medical Tourism Center announced Wednesday it has begun offering its services in Puerto Rico as part of its expansion from Costa Rica.
Thanks to the support of tens of followers on Antrocket.com, juvenile Judo athlete Adrian Gandía is now closer to his goal of obtaining a medal for Puerto Rico in the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil.
Following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division that found violations of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime and record-keeping provisions, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico has agreed to pay more than $35 million in back wages and interest to 4,490 current and former employees of the territory’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
The Puerto Rico Products Association will celebrate “Puerto Rican Industry Month” in April with a series of events that seek to foster socioeconomic development, namely the "Made in Puerto Rico Forum,” and its 47th annual convention.
David Álvarez, former executive director of the Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnership Authority, has been named a principal consultant in the strategic consulting group of Parsons Brinckerhoff, a global infrastructure strategic consulting, engineering and program/construction management organization.
The Puerto Rican medical community will be delivering medical services and care to British Virgin Islands residents through a collaboration agreement struck last week between the HIMA Health group and the BVI’s Health Services Authority, and with the support of the Puerto Rico State Department.
Boricua JE Broadcasting Corp., the company that until last year managed the programming of the 740 AM station formerly known as “Boricua 740,” filed for Chapter 7 liquidation at the U.S. Bankruptcy court in San Juan this week.
Puerto Rico Supplies Group announced Wednesday its recent acquisition of part of the assets of fruits and vegetables packer and distributor Central Produce El Jibarito Inc., adding 133 jobs to its operation. The terms of the transactions were undisclosed.
A day ahead of Valentine’s Day, when millions will express their love and appreciation for one another with flowers, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol detailed how it has been keeping busy inspecting shipments of imported cut flowers to prevent the spread of insects or pests that may damage national and local agriculture.
A Puerto Rican advertising veteran will be traveling to the International Cannes Lions festival this summer to participate for the first time as judge in the 60th edition of the global competition, where local talent has already walked away with top honors.
Hill Construction Corp., a construction development pioneer that has been doing business in Puerto Rico for almost 40 years, filed for Ch. 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this week, listing more than $13.5 million in accrued debt.
Recognizing that the construction sector has been going through a prolonged rough patch, Gov. Alejandro García-Padilla told members of the Association of General Contractors, Puerto Rico chapter Wednesday that his administration’s plans call for their inclusion in a number of projects in the pipeline.
Puerto Rico lottery players now have a new option through which to buy their tickets: brightly colored, free-standing, self-service ticket vending machines recently installed at several big box retailers in the San Juan metropolitan area. Lottery officials are betting the machines could generate close to an extra $1 million a year in gaming sales, this media outlet learned Tuesday.
Salus, an ambulatory health care medical and dental provider in the San Juan metropolitan area, has become the first member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, officials from both medical institutions announced earlier today.
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