With the goal of preparing college students to join the island’s business community, the Young Entrepreneurship Education System (YEES!), in collaboration with the Puerto Rico Products Association, recently held the second edition of the College Business Fair, during which 20 finalists received a combined $135,000 in seed funding for business creation.
The Centros Sor Isolina Ferré and the Amgen Foundation announced recently they will join forces to deliver sciences to more than 350 public high school students in low-income communities through its “Ciencia Móvil” mobile lab.
Graphics and visual communications provider FASTSIGNS, recently inaugurated its third Center in Puerto Rico, located in Carolina.
Puerto Rico's group business closed off what has come to be known as the initial Zika period (March to May), “very much open for business,” with 57 new booked pieces of business including events, conferences, annual meetings and sports activities from now through 2017, Meet Puerto Rico officials said Thursday.
The U.S. Small Business Administration announced Thursday the designation of an additional 516 census tracts qualified as Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZones) in Puerto Rico, for a new total of 776.
The House Committee on Financial Services approved Thursday legislation authored by U.S. Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) to close a decades-old loophole that has caused significant financial losses for many Puerto Rican investors and retirees.
Starting Dec. 17, Air Canada will open a Montreal-San Juan route, offering customers the option of a direct flight on Saturdays, company officials announced Thursday. In addition to the new route, the carrier is adding a second weekly flight to Toronto starting Nov. 19.
Integration Technologies Corp. announced Thursday it has won the “2016 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Award” for Puerto Rico, honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on the software giant’s technology.
The ONE Group Hospitality Inc. announced the signing of a license agreement to open two STK locations in Puerto Rico, within the Condado Vanderbilt Hotel in San Juan.
National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation, an indirect subsidiary of MBIA Inc., filed a complaint Wednesday challenging the Puerto Rico Emergency Moratorium and Financial Rehabilitation Act, asking the court to invalidate it.
The government of Puerto Rico announced Wednesday the launch of an a bondholder registry to improve and facilitate communications with more than 500,000 creditors holding debt issued by the Commonwealth and its public corporations and instrumentalities.
The Center for a New Economy unveiled Wednesday a joint report prepared with the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University in New York, which analyzes key components for a new industrial policy for Puerto Rico.
Nesher Pharmaceuticals (USA) LLC, a generic manufacturing pharmaceutical company, is returning to Puerto Rico for the third time to interview experienced candidates for new positions in the areas of Operations, Quality and, R&D for its manufacturing facilities located in St. Louis, MO.
Puerto Rico will host its first official international cannabis conference on June 28-29, becoming only the fourth jurisdiction in Latin America to enter into the cannabis trade.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has unveiled new rules to expand access to capital for rural businesses, in partnership with the U.S. Treasury Department, USDA Rural Business-Cooperative Administrator Sam Rikkers said Wednesday.
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