The Universidad del Este and the U.S. Small Business administration have partnered to work together on a plan to “create, preserve, and expand” small businesses in Puerto Rico.
Meet Puerto Rico has partnered with the Ricky Martin Foundation to educate the local tourism industry on the impact of human trafficking and its direct effect on the image of the destination, where the nonprofits claim it “is a reality and has serious implications.”
Wireless provider Claro announced this week its new lineup of calling plans featuring unlimited, no-contract offers for families looking to share services.
The Puerto Rico Hotel and Tourism Association wrapped up its recent annual convention with a luncheon in which it announced this year’s winners of its excellence in tourism awards.
Pan-American Life Insurance Company of Puerto Rico, a member of Pan-American Life Insurance Group, a provider of insurance and financial services throughout the Americas, announced the introduction of PanaMed, a new limited benefit indemnity product.
Gathered before a group of professionals, politicians and government officials, the founders OPEN Puerto Rico, a digital platform that seeks to serve as a repository for public information, discussed details of its first fundraising campaign.
Microfinanzas Puerto Rico and the three campuses that make up the Ana G. Méndez University System recently signed a collaboration agreement to develop and strengthen a business ecosystem that benefits the university students and the communities where the campuses are located, including low-income areas.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $120,000 to Puerto Rico’s Desarrollo Integral del Sur Inc. to help it identify sources of air pollution in the Tallaboa-Encarnación community. The community is located in an industrial area of where there are a number of petrochemical businesses. The project is called "Pulmones Saludables, Ahora!" (“Healthy Lungs, Now!”)
The University of Puerto Rico’s Mayagüez campus is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Industrial Biotechnology Program, which has served as a platform to present innovative technological, research and cutting-edge aspects using the science as a change agent.
About 3,000 school supplies were delivered by DDR’s Puerto Rico shopping centers to six nonprofit organizations that provide services to children and youth of school age.
FirstBank recently inaugurated a new branch in Santurce, located at the Plazoleta del Condado, where the former Banco Popular location was until earlier this year.
Meet Puerto Rico will be honoring individuals who have shown a firm commitment to the development and enhancement of the groups and conventions tourism market in Puerto Rico and who have positively impacted the global awareness of Puerto Rico as a meetings destination with the establishment of the Gilberto “Kiko” Pesquera Hall of Fame.
Men’s Wearhouse, which last week officially marked its debut in the Puerto Rico retail market with the opening of its Plaza Carolina store is already developing a second location, this time at the San Patricio Plaza Mall in Guaynabo.
Men’s Wearhouse, one of the largest specialty retailers of men’s apparel in North America, had opened its first new store in the Plaza Carolina Mall. This store will be located in a 4,872 square feet space, on the top level next to J.C. Penney.
Ten successful Puerto Rican designers have joined forces under P.ERE, the island’s first national fashion brand, which will promote the growing fashion design market.
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