USPS includes ‘La Cueva del Indio’ in ’16 stamp lineup
December 31, 2015
A depiction of Puerto Rico’s La Cueva del Indio in Arecibo will be included in the U.S. Postal Service’s 2016 stamp program that also comprises Star Trek, NASA’s New Horizons and Shirley Temple among the topics to be highlighted this year, the agency announced Wednesday.
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AIAC officially enters Puerto Rico’s pharma market
May 19, 2015
High-ranking executives from AIAC, better known as the American Industrial Acquisition Company, arrived to Puerto Rico on Monday to make the company’s official debut in the island’s pharmaceutical industry, following its acquisition of the former Merck plant in Arecibo earlier this year.
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Green building growing slowly in Puerto Rico
March 30, 2015
The arresting leaf coverage on the exterior walls of the Banco Popular Foundation's newly inaugurated headquarters in Hato Rey offers the most recent public evidence of the green building revolution that is slowly but progressively taking hold in Puerto Rico.
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Zeno Gandía Credit Union marks 60th anniversary
March 2, 2015
The Dr. Manuel Zeno Gandía Credit Union recently marked six decades of doing business in Puerto Rico, where the cooperative movement has continued growing despite the protracted fiscal crisis.
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Energy Answers lands EQB final permit for Arecibo plant
October 31, 2014
More than three years after first proposing the construction of a $750 million Resource Recovery Facility — or waste-to-energy — plant in Arecibo, Albany, NY-based Energy Answers confirmed Thursday that the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board of Puerto Rico granted the Air Quality Location and Construction Final Permit needed to move forward with the project.
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Arecibo incinerator: Closer to reality, but will it have garbage to burn?
September 25, 2014
Eight years into a drive to build a $650 million waste-to-energy plant in Arecibo, the first of its kind in Puerto Rico, Energy Answers is moving closer to its goal. But roadblocks remain, including one serious enough to challenge the project's financial viability.
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Metro Pavia Health System unveils $6.3M expansion plan
September 12, 2014
Metro Pavia Health System announced Thursday the start of its new $6.3 million growth and development plan for its medical facilities located in Puerto Rico’s north-central region with a groundbreaking ceremony for its future Metropolitan Office Building at the Hospital Metropolitano Dr. Susoni in Arecibo.
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EPA, Arecibo landfill settle contamination case
June 2, 2014
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a legal settlement with Landfill Technologies of Arecibo, the municipality of Arecibo and the Puerto Rico Land Authority to settle alleged violations of the Clean Air Act.
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InterAmerican Univ. Arecibo opens $4.5M student center
March 11, 2014
The Arecibo campus of the InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico recently opened its new, three-story, $4.5 million multi-purpose building to provide a place where students and faculty can gather to benefit from services and resources designed to help them further their academic and professional development, school officials said.
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Agriculture program spurs $676K in investments
September 30, 2013
The Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture will be signing agreements with 24 farmers in the Arecibo region to assign funding that will generate $676,132 in economic activity, agency officials said.
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Arecibo’s National University College offers customer service seminar
July 5, 2013
National University College’s Arecibo campus recently offered a workshop titled “Interpersonal relations in labor and customer service areas,” sponsored by the school’s marketing department and aimed at small and mid-sized businesses.
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Waste-to-energy plant lands key EPA permit, awaits EQB decision
June 12, 2013
Less than a week after the Puerto Rico government cancelled its contract with Energy Answers for the construction and operation of a new 77-megawatt solid waste facility in Arecibo, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday its final approval of an air permit for the proposed waste-to-energy plant.
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St. Jude invests $3.2M to expand Arecibo production
June 5, 2013
Medical device manufacturer St. Jude Medical confirmed plans to expand its Arecibo operations through a $3.2 million to add a new production line that will create 150 new jobs starting in January 2014.
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Energy Answers WTE plant gets support from Arecibo neighbors
August 28, 2012
A group of Arecibo residents has gathered and submitted more than 1,500 signatures in favor of the proposed $500 million, 77-megawatt waste-to-energy plant project by Albany, NY-based Energy Answers International Inc. for the Cambalache sector of the northern Puerto Rico town.
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EPA to hold public hearings on Arecibo waste-to-energy facility air permit
July 20, 2012
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has scheduled a new round of public hearing sessions to accept public comments on its proposed action to approve an air permit to Energy Answers International Inc., which has announced plans to build a $500 million, 77-megawatt waste-to-energy plant at the former site of the Global Fibers Paper Mill in Arecibo.
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