Supreme Court Chief Justice Federico González-Denton recently swore-in attorney Jorge Cañellas as the new president of the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce, as well as its board members for 2013-2014, at an event that took place at the Conrad Condado Plaza Hotel.
The Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce recognized Oriental Bank as one of the island’s “most outstanding companies,” during its annual convention last month.
For the fifth consecutive year, the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce College Chapter will host its “Business Camp” during the group’s upcoming annual convention. The event will benefit 50 university students who will have the opportunity to visit four companies from different sectors on the island, learn their stories and interact with other young entrepreneurs.
Under the slogan "We’re all entrepreneurs," 125 young people between the ages of 18 and 22, were sworn-in as members of the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce through its College Chapters committee, in an activity held in San Juan that seeks to develop an entrepreneurial attitude for the island’s economic well-being and social development.
The Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce, through its public service campaign "Drive the business of your life," aimed at enhancing the island’s productivity, announced a collaboration agreement with Cemex, FirstBank and the Association of Private Colleges and Universities to develop a unified internship program for college students.
Puerto Rico needs to establish closer commercial ties with all countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean by, among other things, playing up its importance as the gateway to the U.S. mainland, Ricardo Martinelli, president of the Republic of Panama said upon his arrival to the island Thursday.
The need to build on skills as a way to bring Puerto Rico’s economy back into positive ground will be the focus of at least one of the keynote addresses on the Puerto Rico Conference 2012 agenda slated to take place Mar. 28 at the Conrad San Juan Condado Plaza.
Even before 2012 started it was already shaping up to be a year of “many challenges” for the island’s economy, Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce President Salvador Calaf said.
Oscar Arias-Sánchez, two-term president of Costa Rica and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, will be addressing the local business community during this Friday’s quarterly luncheon of the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce.
The Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce will sponsor next month the “Puerto Rico Telecom Conference 2011: The New Future,” through which it seeks to give participants a chance to exchange ideas on telecommunications technologies, achieving greater Internet access, and how going online can help companies to grow, reach new markets, and innovate.
Miami-based United States Hispanic Women Chamber of Commerce will expand its reach to Puerto Rico later this year, when it holds its “Connecting Women, Empowering Minds” convention on the island, event organizers said this week.
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