The Luis Muñoz Marín Foundation recently received financial support from FirstBank Puerto Rico to be able to offer its environmental awareness and leadership workshops to several underprivileged children and youth between the ages of seven and 14, who had the chance to gain knowledge and experience that will likely help them later in life.
In an effort to educate young people about how to establish and make proper use of credit, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, in partnership with the American Bankers' Association, will sponsor the “Get smart about credit” event this month.
The 874 bankruptcy cases filed in Puerto Rico in September were 4 percent higher than those on record for the same month last year.
The Puerto Rico Tourism Co. announced Wednesday it has activated its contingency plan to address the closing of a number of federal offices and facilities frequented by tourist, including the El San Felipe del Morro fort in Old San Juan and the El Yunque National Rainforest.
Puerto Rico’s Gov. Alejandro García-Padilla announced Wednesday his administration’s plans to strengthen the island’s ailing coffee industry, vowing to help harvest an additional 15,000 acres of new crops and generating 6,000 new jobs over the next two years.
When you think about visiting Vieques to experience its pristine beaches and laid-back atmosphere, it’s hard not to want to get there — fast.
The Puerto Rico Film Commission today will open the call to fund locally produced documentaries, for which it will be accepting proposals through Oct. 24, the agency announced Wednesday.
Doral Mortgage announced Wednesday the launch of “Ruta d hogares,” a new educational program developed in alliance with various Puerto Rican municipalities to offer free educational workshops, along with financial consulting, options and help available for buying or refinancing a property.
Pharmaceutical company Actavis plc, based in Ireland, announced Tuesday it has completed the acquisition of Warner Chilcott plc in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at approximately $8.5 billion. Warner Chilcott has a plant in Fajardo.
The Church of God Mission Board, the first credit union to establish itself in Puerto Rico in more than a decade, opened recently in the northern town of Dorado, joining the prosperous cooperative movement.
The Puerto Rico CPA Society, in collaboration with the Economic Development Bank and Puerto Rico Trade and Export, will offer a three-hour seminar about the incentives program available with the approval of the Jobs Now Act.
Basing its assessment on Puerto Rico’s declining economy and population, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services revised Monday its outlook on Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp.'s (known as COFINA) first- and second-lien bonds to negative from stable.
Thousands of jobs, businesses and consumer pockets are being threatened by a new national tax included in the Tax Burden Redistribution and Adjustment Law, which the Marketing, Industry and Food Distribution Chamber warned Monday could have “devastating effects.”
The uproar for the new iPhone 5 has died down a bit, so we now sit back and take a calm look at how the new gadget — or rather, a retooled Apple smartphone — can help business folks be more productive in some practical ways.
Triple-S Management Corp. announced Monday the departure of Susan Rawlings-Molina, president and CEO of Socios Mayores en Salud Holdings Inc., the company's Medicare subsidiary, effective immediately.
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