The Puerto Rico Museum of Art announced Tuesday the launch of Blue Star Museums, a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 1,800 museums across America to offer free admission to all active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day 2013.
The U.S. Small Business Administration announced Tuesday the SBA Veteran Pledge Initiative, a commitment by its top national, regional and community lenders to collectively increase their lending activity to veterans by 5 percent per year for the next five years.
Aon Hewitt announced that it will recruit 100 full time customer service representatives to staff an upcoming expansion at its Puerto Rico call center. To find its new employees, the company will be hosting a job fair from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on May 24 at its Ponce de León headquarters.
AT&T de Puerto Rico announced Monday it has activated six new 4G mobile Internet cell sites in five towns to boost coverage for area residents and businesses and provide speeds up to four times faster than 3G.
Innovative tools and Banco Popular advertising campaigns received four awards from the Sales and Marketing Executives Association, during the trade group’s recent digital conference. The bank took recognitions in two categories for digital innovation and use.
U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the agency is seeking applications from organizations that will provide technical assistance to rural businesses, through the Rural Development’s Rural Business Opportunity Grant (RBOG) program.
Puerto Rico Trade Executive Director Francisco Chévere and Fajardo Mayor Aníbal Meléndez officially opened the new facilities of the Eastern Region Business Development Center with the goal of offering support to the area’s small and mid-sized businesses.
Looking to rescue Puerto Rico’s dwindling coffee industry and increase production of the aromatic brew, Agriculture Secretary Myrna Comas-Pagán signed Wednesday several contracts to prompt the availability of 16 million coffee trees in the near future.
Puerto Rican natural product company Vita Natura announced Tuesday an expansion plan that includes opening three new stores in Puerto Rico and two in stateside later this year.
AT&T’s “It Can Wait” campaign to end texting and driving was significantly bolstered Tuesday by the commitment of several carriers, including Sprint and T-Mobile, as well as more than 200 other organizations to join the movement.
On May 6, Ford and Lincoln inaugurated a new technical training center in the University of Puerto Rico’s Carolina campus.
United Airlines announced that it will begin daily flights from San Juan to its hub in the Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Nov. 5.
A.M. Best Co. has upgraded Guaynabo-based Trans-Oceanic Life Insurance Company’s issuer credit rating (ICR) to “bbb+” from “bbb” and affirmed the financial strength rating of B++. The outlook for the FSR is stable, while the outlook for the ICR has been revised to stable from positive.
Walmart Puerto Rico is sponsoring a six-week fundraising effort at all of its local stores, including Sam’s Club, Amigo and Súper Ahorros locations, in benefit of the San Jorge Children’s Foundation, the local member of the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals group.
Specialty Coffee Institute of the Caribbean, the island’s first university-run coffee tasting laboratory, was inaugurated Thursday at the University of Puerto Rico in Utuado, with the goal of fostering the development of high-quality coffee.
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