Puerto Rico retail sales reflected a 1.42 percent drop year-over-year in April, when activity at the cash register $44.4 million, Puerto Rico Trade and Export figures released Thursday showed.
FirstBank recently granted $230,00 in financing to local Mexican food chain Tijuana’s Bar & Grill, for operational expenses and the purchase of a warehouse located in Cervantes Street, Condado.
Puerto Rico’s private sector has a one-month window — between Sept. 6 and Oct. 1 — to deliver their proposals to the Congressional Task Force on Puerto Rico to spur economic development initiatives for the island, former Republican Congressman Jerry Weller, said Tuesday.