The Center for Empowerment and Free Enterprise at the Universidad del Este in Carolina signed several collaborative agreements with private-sector organizations, the government and communities, to spur job creation in Puerto Rico, college officials announced Wednesday.
Plaza Las Américas and Liberty Puerto Rico announced Wednesday the launch of Plaza Wi-Fi, a wireless network to access high-speed Internet in all of the shopping center’s common areas.
The Puerto Rico government is paving the way for a general obligation bond sale next month through which it seeks to raise as much as $3.5 billion to improve the Government Development Bank’s liquidity, high-ranking administration officials said Tuesday.
EVERTEC Inc. and Red ATH, which run the island’s ATMs, announced Tuesday the launching of “ATH Móvil,” a service that enables electronic money transfers between individuals and accounts held by different banking institutions, through mobile phones.
Two executives who own the Bora Bora and Flamers retail establishments are facing 36 counts of tax evasion and illegal appropriation of public funds for failing to remit more than $1.2 million in sales and use tax money collected between 2009 and 2012, according to the findings of a joint investigation by the Puerto Rico Justice and Treasury Departments.
Puerto Rican sister companies Apple Caribe Inc. and Famous Caribe Inc., operators of the Applebee’s and Famous Dave’s chains, respectively, will create a total of 460 full-time jobs supported by the incentives provided through the Jobs Now Act passed by the current administration a year ago.
Wireless carrier T-Mobile announced Tuesday part of its plans for this year, which include adding jobs, expanding its 4G LTE network and expanding its portfolio of products and services, including a new equipment protection and trade-in program for its Puerto Rico customer base.
Following almost two years of tough negotiations that included a lawsuit in court and major employee protests, the management at Claro de Puerto Rico and the Independent Telephone Workers Union, known as UIET in Spanish, signed a three-year collective bargaining agreement on Jan. 30.
Kelley Blue Book’s KBB.com has named the 2014 Nissan Rogue, 2014 Nissan Altima and the 2014 Nissan Pathfinder to its list of the 12 Best Family Cars of 2014.
Oriental Bank is kicking off this year’s tax season, when individuals are seeking money management tools to reduce their obligations with the government, with its Diversified Growth IRA (DGI) campaign, a collective investment fund that has yielded positive growth results over the past decade.
The Puerto Rico Health Insurance Services Administration, or ASES in Spanish, stands to recover about $9.7 million in duplicate payments made to insurance companies for services provided to patients covered by the government’s health plan, agency Executive Director Ricardo Rivera said Monday.
On Dec. 30, with only two days left in 2013, Jamaica welcomed its two millionth air passenger to the island — the first time it has ever accomplished that in one year.
The Puerto Rico Planning Board recently adopted the Añasco Valley Agricultural Reserve.
Some 55 Agriculture Department-certified farmers have seen their sales blossom since last August, through their participation in government-sponsored “Family Markets,” held regularly throughout Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico’s co-op sector is expected to experience a “reduced impact” as a result of last week’s triple downgrade of Puerto Rico’s credit to junk by U.S. ratings agencies.
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