Triple-S Management Corp. announced Tuesday net income of $4.7 million for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, reflecting a 75 percent drop from last year's third quarter net income of $18.6 million
The U.S. Economic Development Administration has awarded Grupo Guayacán Inc. a $62,000 technical assistance grant to launch I-Corps Puerto Rico, a customer discovery boot camp for entrepreneurs looking to build and develop scalable business models, the nonprofit announced Tuesday.
On Nov. 6, the Brookings Institution — one of Washington’s most prestigious think tanks — will delve into the origins of Puerto Rico’s $73 billion debt crisis and what can be done to nurse the island’s ailing economy back to health.
Puerto Rico has been selected to host 96 events including, conferences, annual meetings and sports activities for this winter season. This represents an estimated 40,894 room nights and a total direct spending of $23 million into the local economy, Meet Puerto Rico President Milton Segarra said Monday.
Popular Community Bank, a subsidiary of Popular Inc., has been included among the “Best Banks” in Money Magazine’s recent survey, which reviewed 70 of the nation’s largest banks for their checking, savings, and CD terms.
Following its 2013 award, the O:live Boutique Hotel again has been nominated in 2014 by the London based International Boutique Hotel Awards in the category of best-inspired design in America and the World, hotel executives announced Monday.
Puerto Rico’s Economic Activity Index continued its free-fall in September, when according to the Government Development Bank there was a 1.8 percent year-over-year drop in the results, marking yet another month of contraction.
Government Development Bank President Melba Acosta announced Thursday the filing of legislation containing measures to improve the fiscal and financial situation of the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority.
More than three years after first proposing the construction of a $750 million Resource Recovery Facility — or waste-to-energy — plant in Arecibo, Albany, NY-based Energy Answers confirmed Thursday that the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board of Puerto Rico granted the Air Quality Location and Construction Final Permit needed to move forward with the project.
José Rafael Fernández, president of OFG Bancorp and its subsidiary, Oriental Bank, headed a delegation of company employees and clients, to ring the closing Bell of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, celebrating the bank’s 50th anniversary and the 20th anniversary of OFG Bancorp’s exchange listing.
Some 7,000 Puerto Rican professionals from a gamut of sectors applied for a Department of Education-backed free conversational English course that had only 550 spaces available, showing the need for this type of education to language skills, officials from America Aponte & Associates, the company hired to teach the classes, said Tuesday.
Liberty Puerto Rico announced Tuesday that effective March 15, 2015, Google’s Google Apps ISP will stop supporting all e-mail addresses in its service, including those for the onelinkpr.net domain.
First BanCorp., the bank holding company for FirstBank Puerto Rico, reported Monday net income of $23.2 million for the third quarter of 2014, or $0.11 per diluted share, compared to $15.9 million, or $0.08 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2013.
The Puerto Rico International Auto Show, a highly anticipated event by local car enthusiasts, kicked off its 16th edition at the Plaza Las Américas shopping center with an exhibit by leading motor vehicle distributors who have come together to present their 2015 models. The event runs through Nov. 3
A delegation of 13 Puerto Rican companies will exhibit their products at the Americas Food & Beverages Show event, which will take place Oct. 27-28 at the Miami Beach Convention Center, said Puerto Rico Trade and Export Executive Director Francisco Chévere on Monday.
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