Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi introduced a bill Thursday that would authorize the U.S. Treasury Department to guarantee repayment of principal and interest on bonds to be issued in the future by the island’s bond-issuing public entities, but only if the agency certifies that the commonwealth has “demonstrated meaningful improvement in managing its public finances.”
Students who successfully complete air traffic control training at Airways New Zealand’s training hub in Puerto Rico, and who pass the FerroNATS selection process, will have the opportunity to enter the job pool of one of Europe’s premier air traffic services providers.
With an investment of $38 million and the creation of 256 new jobs, Walmart inaugurated Wednesday a new Supercenter in Hatillo, through which it hopes to positively impact the commercial activity of the island’s northwest area and economic development as a whole.