Agricultural Under Secretary Lisa Mensah announced Monday that $5.8 million nationwide in competitive funding is available to help start, improve or expand cooperative businesses in rural areas.
Following Sunday’s confirmation that Puerto Rico Treasury Secretary Juan Zaragoza had stepped down from his post at the Government Development Bank’s board of directors, to “avoid a conflict of interest,” a group of bi-partisan lawmakers demanded transparency from the troubled public agency.
Mired in recession and awaiting a fix for its huge debt crisis, Puerto Rico has one bright spot in the local economy: Agriculture.
One year ago, a family on vacation on St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands was poisoned by methyl bromide, a harmful pesticide that was illegally applied below their rental condo.
The two biggest threats facing Caribbean tourism today are four-letter words: Cuba and Zika. Both unnerve officials throughout the region, for very different reasons.
JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd., a global player in the solar photovoltaic industry, announced that it will supply METKA-EGN USA, LLC with 57.65 MW of PV solar modules for the largest facility of its kind in Puerto Rico.
In a 3-2 vote, the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday decided to expand its Lifeline Universal Service Program, which currently subsidizes voice telephone service for low-income households, to allow those households to use the program to lower the cost of broadband service.
Puerto Rico’s historically outdated Property Registry has been thrust into the 21st century through a $6.9 million modernization project that converted the government’s database from paper to fully electronic and available 24/7, Justice Secretary César Miranda announced Thursday.
The 2016 World Candles Congress & Suppliers Trade Show, jointly sponsored by the National Candle Association and the Latin American Candle Manufacturers Association announced the upcoming Luminaria Project, which will support Casa Cuna de San Juan, an organization that provides safe refuge and a transitional home for abandoned children.
The senior creditors of the Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation, known as COFINA, said Wednesday the draft of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act lays “the groundwork for a pragmatic, workable policy solution…aimed at addressing Puerto Rico's economic crisis.”
Looking to add to the island’s efforts to promote agriculture as a sustainable source of growth and economic development, a group of entrepreneurs will host Agrohack, a conference focusing on the sector, on May 28.
The U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources, chaired by Rob Bishop (R-UT). released a draft legislation on Puerto Rico’s economic crisis Tuesday, proposing an oversight board that will, among other things, audit the government and its corporations.
Crowley Maritime Corporation recently set the main engine onto El Coquí, the first of two new, “Commitment Class ConRo” (combination container and Roll/On-Roll/Off) ships that will be powered by liquefied natural gas for use in Jacksonville-to-Puerto Rico ocean cargo trade on 2017, the company announced Tuesday.
The Commonwealth will appeal the decision by U.S. District Judge José A. Fusté invalidating the transfer pricing tax applied to Wal-Mart, Gov. Alejandro García-Padilla said Monday, while blasting the judge for “taking away $100 million” from the people of Puerto Rico.
The Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust announced Monday it has extended until April 1st the call-for-entries for innovators to participate in the local edition of the Singularity University Global Impact Competition.
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