Aware that buying a home can be daunting, Oriental Mortgage is launching a campaign to help first-time buyers ward off “Adquidofobia,” or buyer’s phobia of signing on the dotted line.
The U.S. Department of Commerce's Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) announced Monday a supplemental investment of $625,000 to five existing MBDA Business Centers, including the Puerto Rico office.
Latitud Sur, a “pop-up” restaurant that will open in Ponce as part of the North to South Gastronomic Fair taking place Sept. 19-22, will gather some of the island’s best chefs who will offer contemporary Puerto Rican food during the eatery’s short stint in front of Sears Home Life at the Plaza del Caribe mall, organizers said.
Hotels in the Caribbean that have enabled the Expedia Traveler Preference program have experienced an increase in their standalone (room only) year-over-year net room night production of 29 percentage points on average, according to analysis by the Expedia group released Monday.
Puerto Rican technology firm e-Nabler Corp. has reached an agreement with big-box retailer Costco to sell an all-in-one mobile point of sale solution for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch products.
Puerto Rico’s government agencies, certain corporations and other entities are dragging a combined $39 billion net asset deficit, which represents an increase of approximately $5.3 billion when compared to the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011.
Caribbean markets are increasingly seeking investment opportunities in Colombia, showing particular interest in software, IT and business process outsourcing services as well as insurance and financial services, hotel infrastructure and construction materials.
The Puerto Rico Society for Human Resources Management will be hosting its annual convention Sept. 18-21, focusing on labor laws and the new competency model for HR professionals.
For the fifth consecutive years, the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico’s Landscape Architects Student Association will host PARK(ing) Day Puerto Rico, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 20, along a stretch of Ashford Avenue in Condado, between the Ashford Presbyterian Hospital and La Concha hotel.
NeoMed Center, a nonprofit corporation that operates several 330 primary health centers, is expanding its facilities in Gurabo through an investment of $4.9 million from federal funds.
The Santa Isabel Wind Farm project recently earned the “Outstanding Project of the Year Award” in Land Surveying and Environmental Engineering.
A new generation is entering the management ranks of companies worldwide, and like previous generations, they will bring with them their own preferred ways of communicating and collaborating.
More than 20 agency heads took part in an economic forum hosted by the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce Thursday to exchange ideas and proposals directed toward furthering the island’s socioeconomic development.
Scuderi Group Inc. announced Thursday the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Puerto Rico Police Association for the first Scuderi Split-Cycle Engine to be utilized as a liquefied petroleum gas generator with compressed air energy storage (CAES) capability.
Jeans.com, a Puerto Rican clothing retailer established in 1998 catering to men 15 to 40, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, listing more than $5.1 million in debt.
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