While news from the North America International Auto Show taking place this week comes down from Detroit in every direction, automakers in Puerto Rico are making announcements of their own about how they did among local consumers last year.
The number of vehicles that rolled off the lots in Puerto Rico reached 8,773 units in November, which represented a flat 0.2 percent year-over-year improvement and kept the breaks on nearly 10 months of consecutive growth, the United Automobile Importers Group known as GUIA revealed.
New research unveiled Wednesday by Connect Puerto Rico shows that nearly 85 percent of Puerto Rico households have access to fixed broadband at advertised speeds of at least 3 Mbps download/768 Kbps upload, up from 57 percent one year ago. This represents significant network expansion across the island.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that José Font has been selected to lead its Caribbean Environmental Protection Division, covering Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
As tired as I was over a sleepless night —horrified after reading José Enrique Gómez’s murderer’s description of his vicious and vile death and deeply concerned about Puerto Rico’s present and future — I couldn’t miss our standing high-school monthly dinner, especially because two of my very best friends from school were in town.
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Two locally recognized executives, Miguel A. Ferrer and Gabriel Hernández, have pooled their knowledge to launch a publication entitled “Puerto Rico is the Answer” that highlights the advantages Puerto Rico offers in a wide range of sectors to the investment community.
Puerto Rico’s high asthma rates, and recycling and pollution prevention efforts were some of the issues on the agenda of a meeting that took place late last week between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and local government representatives in New York, the agency said Monday.
Después de 51 años en Nueva York, Banco Popular, una división de Popular Inc., pasará a llamarse Popular Community Bank el 4 de junio, con cambios en la señalización y la imagen de marca en 32 sucursales de la ciudad de Nueva York y siete de Nueva Jersey.
Public affairs and digital marketing services agency Burson-Marsteller announced Tuesday the appointment of Lynnette Teissonniere as market leader for its operation in Puerto Rico. Teissonniere will be based in San Juan and will report to Ramiro E. Prudencio, president of Burson-Marsteller Latin America.
It is the general belief that it is bad for a government to have a deficit or be shoulder-deep in debt. However, while it is “perfectly legitimate” for public administrations to have shortfalls and finance them with debt, what is dangerous is when the practice leads to unsustainability.
It really, really unnerves me whenever a journalist or talk show host — especially on the radio — while criticizing or making fun of a politician’s discourse, event or photograph in the news media, almost always identifies the action as a “public relations gimmick” or “public relations stunt.”
The Ford Dealership Association and the Antique Cars Fair donated $15,000 to Hogar Cuna San Cristobal, representing the proceeds of a raffle of a Ford Fiesta during the event held last weekend.
The luxe Copamarina Beach Resort & Spa in the southwestern town of Guánica is getting a $1 million upgrade this year that includes a complete makeover of its 106 rooms and the addition of new entertainment options for guests, hotel General Manager Rabín Ortíz told News is my Business.
Local private equity lender Moneyhouse is celebrating its fifth anniversary this month and is marking the milestone by outlining its accomplishments thus far, namely closing on more than $675 million in loans, of which 40 percent — or $275 million — are reverse mortgage cases.
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