Just in time for the start of the new school year, Doral Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of Puerto Rico-based Doral Financial Corporation, announced Monday it is expanding its financial literacy program for high school students in Bay County, Florida.
Social media did a full turn of the screw in recent times and along the way created a new paradigm for product marketing.
For the second consecutive year, Walgreens has distributed thousands of school supplies to Puerto Rico-based educational organizations that are part of the Alternative Education Alliance, to benefit students islandwide.
Advertising agency DDB Latina Puerto Rico announced Monday it has won the Impact Award, bestowed by parent agency DDB Worldwide.
The economic transition that Puerto Rico has been going through for the past seven years has been “extremely painful” for many, as “employment trends have polarized the workforce and hollowed out the middle class,” according to the most recent edition of “Compass,” a publication by Heidie Calero Consulting Group.
Supporting programs for innovative, technology-driven small businesses under SBA’s Federal and State Technology (FAST) partnership program, the U.S. Small Business Administration has granted 20 awards, of $95,000 per award, for Fiscal 2013 to 20 state and local economic development agencies, business development centers, and colleges and universities.
In the wake of losing its contract with the government to provide health insurance coverage through the public MiSalud plan, insurer Humana Health Plans of Puerto Rico Inc. announced Thursday it will eliminate 329 jobs from its local operation.
Wireless customers gave AT&T high marks for its customer service, according to the latest J.D. Power study released Thursday. In the 2013 Wireless Customer Care Full-Service Study, Volume 2, AT&T outscored all other full-service wireless providers for the overall customer service experience measured across its retail stores, online, and call centers. AT&T also showed significant […]
Gov. Alejandro García-Padilla recently signed the Puerto Rico Investment Companies Law to encourage investment and capital creation through more flexible regulation.
The towns of Añasco and Coamo will receive funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop small businesses that are expected to strengthen the economies of the rural towns.
Students enrolled in the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico’s Geomatic Sciences Department majoring in land surveying and mapping, recently unveiled a study related to the Península de Cantera’s Guachinanga Islet that will soon be used to develop an eco-tourism project there.
KPMG LLP, one of the largest professional services companies in the world, has been tapped as the financial consultant for Novotren, the Caguas-San Juan commuter train project.
A scuffle that broke out Tuesday morning between United Tour Guide members and private tour operators when the Disney Fantasy cruise ship docked unexpectedly in Old San Juan could cost Puerto Rico $2 million in products and services and could damage the island’s reputation as a destination, tourism executives said.
Five Puerto Rico resorts have been included in the list of ‘100 Most Popular Meeting Resorts’ in North America and the Caribbean published by Cvent, one of the world’s largest cloud-based marketplaces for group meetings business.
The U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday it has secured a consent judgment ordering two Sabana Grande farmers to pay a total of $275,000 in back wages and liquidated damages to 174 agricultural workers.
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