The staff of technology firm Nagnoi recently joined the “Uniendo Cabezas por los Niños del CAP,” shaving their heads for charity. The goal was to help the organization exceed its goal of raising $50,000 for pediatric cancer patients.
The Compulsory Insurance Joint Underwriters Association this week launched a campaign to generate awareness among citizens about driving safely during the Christmas season through the “Safety on the road is in you. Think. Act. Live Safely" slogan.
Bayamón Mayor Ramón Luis Rivera-Cruz, and Doral Bank announced Tuesday that 25 women with artistic abilities will participate in a free three-month educational program by the Art Workshop to further encourage and enhance the participants' artistic abilities and techniques.
To help raise funds for several initiatives through the Ricky Martin Foundation, Ford Puerto Rico recently donated a Ford Focus, which will be raffled in May 2014 and will be on display at Plaza Las Américas in Hato Rey until the end of December.
Five companies doing business on the island — and a newcomer that will open soon — have confirmed plans to expand their operations in Puerto Rico, creating 545 jobs through combined investments of more than $51.3 million, Gov. Alejandro García-Padilla said Monday.
Ohio-based Marco's Pizza, the fastest growing pizza franchise in the United States with 1,500 new franchise deals signed, is set to bring its authentic Italian flare to Puerto Rico, having recently inked a deal to open 40 stores over the next nine years.
Several major Puerto Rico banks will be operating on a special schedule today in observance of the Discovery Day holiday.
Paid television provider Dish Puerto Rico announced Monday it has added discount club chain Costco to its list of retailers selling the service on the island.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $30,000 to the Vieques Historical and Conservation Trust to fund surveys of old and decaying septic systems in five neighborhoods in the island municipality.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Monday that one million people have been given the designation of a ‘trusted traveler’ through the Global Entry program launched five years ago, which provides arriving travelers with a quicker, more efficient and more secure entry process into the United States.
EVERTEC, a company with more than 25 years experience and considered the leading full-service transaction processing business in Latin America and the Caribbean, announced it is establishing operations in Colombia this month.
Puerto Rico’s road to economic recovery is feasible, but remains a long one and depends entirely on the government’s commitment to lowering electricity costs, stabilizing fiscal revenue, reverting net outward migration, and increasing private investment, H. Calero Consulting Group Inc. expressed in the latest edition of “Compass,” its quarterly publication.
Medical device manufacturer Stryker could be on a path toward growth in Puerto Rico.
The Corporation for the Supervision and Insurance of Puerto Rico Cooperatives, known as COSSEC in Spanish, wrapped up Fiscal 2013 with $229.2 million in assets, a 5.86 percent year-over-year increase, President Daniel Rodríguez-Collazo said during the entity’s annual convention this weekend.
Puerto Rico government officials announced the start of the process to prepare the island’s first official Human Development Report, to be based on the methodology that the United Nations Program for Development has been using since 1992.
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