Lemonade Day, a youth entrepreneurship program, has named Danyarelie Ruiz as the 2020 National Youth Entrepreneur of the Year. She is the first Latina and Puerto Rican to win this award since Lemonade Day was founded in 2007, organizers said. Thirteen-year-old Ruiz, from the town of San Lorenzo, planned and started her own lemonade business […]
The Mastercard Girls4Tech educational program that seeks to inspire 7–14 year old girls with skills in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), and which has already reached 1 million students worldwide, is being launched in Puerto Rico with the participation of 15 girls, patients of the San Jorge Children’s Foundation. Starting Oct. 19, the girls […]
Shine Professional Women — a group dedicated to developing initiatives, events and the dissemination of information for professional women — will host the virtual “Shine Professional Women Meetup: Women who challenge the Pandemic” event on Oct. 24. The activity will be free, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. “In this second edition of the SHINE […]
Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez announced the allocation of $90 million in federal funds to subsidize the cost of internet connections for all public school students and teachers, which they will be able to request through Nov. 30, 2020. The aid, available through the CARES Act, will be up to $400 per participant and will […]
U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain approved the contract between the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and LUMA Energy, determining it can be considered as an administrative expense for the power utility. The decision followed section 503 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, under which PREPA is covered. LUMA will charge PREPA some $60 million […]
One of the six candidates running for governor of Puerto Rico, César Vázquez, has unveiled an economic platform that, among other things, calls for spending $400 million on tourism strategies from the $2.2 billion in federal funds allocated to fight COVID-19. The candidate, who represents the Proyecto Dignidad movement, has a full section entitled “Economic […]
Bluetide Puerto Rico Inc., in charge of developing a whole-island approach to coastal resource management for disaster mitigation and resilience, workforce development and the Blue Economy in the Caribbean, has purchased two custom vessels to advance oceanographic and scientific research and technology development in the region, it announced. The investment of more than $200,000 was […]
Formerly known as G Suite, Google’s new version of Workspace is a workable alternative to other mainstream document processors such as Microsoft Word and Apple Works. And probably cheaper, too. Workspace is less than $6 a month, unless, of course, one wants to upgrade to a more professional suite. I say workable because many corporations […]
Boronea, a Puerto Rican clothing and accessories store for men has opened a seasonal store on the second level of the Plaza Las Américas shopping center that will be up through January. The 1,030 square-foot location across the corridor from the Amado Salón entailed a $50,000 investment to establish and is generating six direct jobs, […]
The 2020 Puerto del Rey Billfish Tournament, planned for Oct. 22-24 at Puerto Del Rey Marina in Fajardo, has been cancelled due to the global COVID-19 pandemic and emergency, organizers said. “Unfortunately, the circumstances that we’re going through will not allow us to continue our traditional tournament for the entire Puerto del Rey family,” said […]
The Puerto Rico Demographic Registry, an agency under the Puerto Rico Health Department, has launched an online service to enable people to request appointments and process necessary documents. By connecting to RegistroDemograficoCitas.com, users are able to see the services for which appointments are offered: Death certifications; marriage registrations; birth registration or marriage License. Once the service […]
Puerto Rico Legal Services (SLPR, in Spanish) celebrated the opinion issued by the Puerto Rico Supreme Court in a mortgage foreclosure case that conclusively defines the concept of “good faith” in compulsory mediation processes that are mandatory in these cases. “Undoubtedly, the decision in this case will be a game changer for everyone facing foreclosure […]
Pedro Pierluisi, the 61-year-old gubernatorial candidate for the New Progressive Party, believes that Puerto Rico should serve as a bridge for the U.S. mainland to gain “better access to the Americas,” according to his economic development proposals posted on his campaign website. Pierluisi strongly believes in: carrying out a realistic and transformative reengineering of how […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) approved 364 new Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) contracts worth about $8.5 million in Fiscal 2020, the agency said. It worked in partnership with farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners in the Caribbean Area (Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands), to develop conservation plans for […]
On August 7, 2020, Act No. 90, a law prohibiting workplace harassment or mobbing, went into effect. Puerto Rico is the first U.S. jurisdiction in approving such law. Under the new law, employees in the public and private sector have a cause of action for conduct the law classifies as workplace harassment. Aggrieved employees would […]
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