Popular Inc. released earnings for the third quarter on Tuesday, reporting net income of $46.8 million for the three-month period ended Sept. 30, 2016, compared to net income of $89 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2016.
The majority of Puerto Rico’s 78 municipalities are in dire financial conditions, with more than half carrying deficits on their general funds, the Center for Integrity in Public Policy (CIPP) revealed in its third annual Financial Health Index.
Nationwide Planning Associates, and independent financial industry and regulatory authority-regulated broker-dealer, inaugurated its new local headquarters facilities in Hato Rey, for which it invested $250,000.
Nonprofit organization Ciencia Puerto Rico (CienciaPR) is making a call for applications to the Yale Ciencia Academy, a program to transform the training of young scientists in Puerto Rico and the U.S mainland.
Local retailer Grand Way will inaugurate a new store at Plaza Centro Mall in Caguas on Oct. 27, shopping center officials said Tuesday.
The Public Corporation for the Supervision of Puerto Rico Cooperatives, or COSSEC as the entity is known in Spanish, confirmed it is drafting a “fiscal stability plan” where the sector will present strategies to stabilize the island’s co-op system and its more than 1 million members.
With 15 participating teams of innovators and entrepreneurs, Grupo Guayacán and the Puerto Rico Science, Technology & Research Trust launched the fourth edition of I-Corps Puerto Rico at the latter’s headquarters this weekend.
Healthcare Ambulatory Services recently announced the Nov. 1 opening of its third location in Puerto Rico, in Cayey, where it invested $700,000 in a modern facility offering specialized medical services.
TV anchor Keylla Hernández and Triple-S Vida recently joined forces to raise awareness about the importance of being prepared to face cancer through an educational campaign that includes eight journalism students.
Oriental Bancorp reported $11.7 million in net income for the third quarter of 2016 ended Sept. 30.
A pioneer in Puerto Rico’s farm-to-table movement, Departamento de La Comida is expanding its scope.
With a little more than two months left to this administration’s four-year term, Treasury Secretary Juan Zaragoza said there are projects he would have liked to have seen through, including a reclassification of agency employees to improve their salaries.
The government of Puerto Rico is counting on the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico to fight for the permanence of Law 154, passed in October 2010 as an amendment to Puerto Rico’s Internal Revenue Code that places an excise tax on sales generated by local subsidiaries to their international parent companies.
As part of the remodeling and expansion of its facilities, the Costa Bahía Hotel & Convention Center announced Thursday the opening today of its new $5.4 million Blue Dolphin Casino.
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