Doral Financial Corporation, which has operations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland, reported Wednesday a net loss of $10.4 million for the three months ended June 30, 2013.
Starting today users driving along Puerto Rico highway 22, commonly known as the José De Diego Expressway, will be able to use the new dynamic toll lanes that will run between the Buchanan and Toa Baja toll stations, operator Metropistas said.
The Lexus Grants for Artists Program bestowed a total of $27,000 in grants split equally among Puerto Rican artists Julio E. Amill-Martínez, Tari Beroszi and Omar Velázquez-Román to support their emerging careers.
Four renowned Puerto Rican chefs have been invited to take part in this weekend’s “Pilón, Caldero y Fogón” culinary fest in Miami, organizers said Wednesday.
Triple-S Salud and veteran journalist Carmen Jovet have joined forces to produce “Hablemos de Salud,” an hour-long, weekly television program focused on promoting health and wellness in Puerto Rico.
Doral Financial Corp. informed the Securities and Exchange Commission Monday that it was unable to timely file its report for the quarter ended June 30, 2013 because of “a delay in the preparation of its unaudited consolidated financial statements for such quarter.”
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Engineer Edgar I. Rodríguez-Pérez became the new president of the College of Engineers and Surveyors of Puerto Rico, succeeding Angel González-Carrasquillo, who will conclude his two-year term on Aug. 30th.
The Puerto Rico Tourism Company’s Gambling Division is revisiting casino regulations in response to hoteliers who have spent the better part of the last year lobbying for amendments to temper the rules to current economic conditions and provide more flexibility they say would prevent a wave of casino closings.
Aaron Stewart, a former high-ranking executive at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, is set to make his debut in retail with the upcoming opening of a home goods store in San Juan.
Puerto Rican entrepreneur Antonio Sosa-Pascual has been recognized as a “civic innovator” in the summer 2013 issue of “Americas Quarterly,” a policy analysis and debate magazine published by the Americas Society and Council of the Americas, based in New York City.
FirstBank Puerto Rico volunteers recently came together with residents from the Antonsanti, Belisa, Caribe and Villa Canales neighborhoods in Río Piedras, to participate in the “Arboretum” urban forestry planting project. The initiative falls under the bank’s “One with the Environment” program.
The Made in Puerto Rico Educational Institute of the Puerto Rico Products Association will offer a seminar titled “Impact of the changes to Puerto Rico’s tax system on your business,” which aims to provide guidance on the recently enacted changes to the island’s tax code and their impact on local companies.
During the first half of 2013, AT&T has invested more than $40 million in its wireless and wired networks in Puerto Rico, to complete the deployment of new macro cell sites and capacity enhancements across the island as part of its Project Velocity IP initiative — a three-year investment plan announced last fall to expand and enhance its IP broadband networks.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a $3 million cleanup plan to address contaminated soil at the Scorpio Recycling Superfund site in Toa Baja, for which it will hold a public meeting to discuss its proposal and garner public opinion. SRI was a metal recycling company that operated from 1972 until 2010 in a […]
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