More than 200 people interested in Fluor Corporation’s operation and job opportunities attended an open house event at its facilities in Guaynabo, the company confirmed.
FirstBank recently conducted the first of five talks on how to financially prepare for a natural disaster to 30 students from the School of Technical Studies at Metropolitan University-Bayamón, the bank announced.
More than two months after Hurricane María devastated Puerto Rico, the island remains in crisis, with hundreds of thousands still without electricity or clean drinking water.
The United Nations and UNICEF are the two most followed international organizations on social media, with 16.9 and 16.3 million followers, respectively, on all platforms combined, according to the “Twiplomacy” study conducted by the Burson-Marsteller firm.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in coordination with the Mobile District, awarded a $93-million shared capacity contract to Power & Instrumentation Services Inc. and Ceres Caribe Inc.,
Whitefish Energy crews have completed their repair work on the south-to-north 50900 transmission line.
Following joint efforts between the Puerto Rico Tourism Company (PRTC) and El San Juan Hotel, the property’s executives announced the hotel will partially reopen Dec. 4, earlier than originally anticipated.
The tax reform and the resulting economic development and job creation to our nation included in President Donald Trump’s campaign platform is the best we have seen in any presidential candidate in recent history.
In the two months since Hurricane María devastated Puerto Rico, Conagra Brands and its main brand Chef Boyardee have served more than 7,000 hot meals to people living in communities in need, the company confirmed.
XLD Group, the Chinese investment firm that owns the Marriott Resort and Stellaris Casino in Condado, is so confident Puerto Rico’s tourism sector will bounce back after Hurricane María that it already has plans to build a second hotel, with a projected $40 million investment.
United for Puerto Rico reached an agreement with Foundation for Puerto Rico, through which the latter will provide technical and administrative support in a cost-efficient manner to increase the organization’s capacity and agility to process grant applications, the nonprofits announced.
More than two months after Hurricane María struck Puerto Rico, thousands of local residents remain without drinking water or electricity.
Representatives from Puerto Rico’s private sector agreed Monday to back Gov. Ricardo Rosselló’s urgent call to Congress to treat the island as a U.S. — not foreign — jurisdiction in the federal tax reform currently being discussed.
As Puerto Rico begins to transition from the response phase to recovery, Michael Byrne, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s coordinating officer for Puerto Rico, said the process moving forward will include an “unbelievable amount of common sense” and experience from prior disasters to rebuild the island.
The MCS Foundation announced that YMCA of the USA has raised $200,000, which the nonprofit’s creator, Medical Card Systems Inc., will match dollar-for-dollar to support disaster relief efforts to help individuals, families and the communities served through the YMCAs in Puerto Rico.
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