Medical device manufacturers Covidien in Ponce and CooperVision in Juana Díaz confirmed Wednesday separate expansions that will create a combined 550 jobs in Puerto Rico’s southern region.
The second Economic Development Summit took place at the Puerto Rico Convention Center Tuesday, when members of Gov. Alejandro García-Padilla’s economic team summarized what agencies have been up to since January to further the administration’s agenda to spur private-sector jobs and activity.
The Puerto Rico Labor Department is going after companies and government agencies that have failed, for whatever reason, to make their unemployment insurance payments for the past five or six years and now owe a combined $378 million, agency Secretary-designate Vance Thomas confirmed.
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