In what represents its first venture outside the Caribbean region, Grupo Triple-S announced today the expansion of its health and life insurance operations to Costa Rica under the brand BlueCross BlueShield Costa Rica.
WASHINGTON — What do the World War II-era Burma Road, the 30,000-mile-long Pan-American Highway linking Alaska to Argentina, a $120 million aluminum smelter in Ghana, and a $3 billion liquefied natural gas project in Papua New Guinea have in common?
Cruise ship passengers arriving at the port of San Juan increased by 28 percent in July and August, in comparison to the same period in 2013, a growth the Puerto Rico Ports Authority attributed to the “Low Season Rates Program,” established in May of this year.
Looking to establish a link between students and potential employers, the University of Puerto Rico’s School of Business Administration in Río Piedras will host a Jobs and Internships Fair on Sept. 24, with the participation of companies looking to recruit students.
FirstBank recently inaugurated a new branch in Santurce, located at the Plazoleta del Condado, where the former Banco Popular location was until earlier this year.
Meet Puerto Rico will be honoring individuals who have shown a firm commitment to the development and enhancement of the groups and conventions tourism market in Puerto Rico and who have positively impacted the global awareness of Puerto Rico as a meetings destination with the establishment of the Gilberto “Kiko” Pesquera Hall of Fame.
Men’s Wearhouse, which last week officially marked its debut in the Puerto Rico retail market with the opening of its Plaza Carolina store is already developing a second location, this time at the San Patricio Plaza Mall in Guaynabo.
The Puerto Rico Treasury Department has spent the last seven months working with a team of local and international experts in tax, fiscal and economic matters to propose an overhaul to the island’s Internal Revenue Code that ultimately should eliminate the “uncertainty” associated with elements of the decades-old statute, agency Chief Melba Acosta told members of the media Thursday.
Puerto Rico’s General Fund net collections fell short of projected estimates by $27.4 million last month, when the government collected $440.6 million, hit mostly by a drop in payments from corporations under Law 154, motor vehicle sales and individual payments.
Puerto Rico’s auto industry skid into its seventh month of sales losses in August, when activity was down 20.1 percent in comparison to the same month last year.
Men’s Wearhouse, one of the largest specialty retailers of men’s apparel in North America, had opened its first new store in the Plaza Carolina Mall. This store will be located in a 4,872 square feet space, on the top level next to J.C. Penney.
Ten successful Puerto Rican designers have joined forces under P.ERE, the island’s first national fashion brand, which will promote the growing fashion design market.
Metro Pavia Health System announced Thursday the start of its new $6.3 million growth and development plan for its medical facilities located in Puerto Rico’s north-central region with a groundbreaking ceremony for its future Metropolitan Office Building at the Hospital Metropolitano Dr. Susoni in Arecibo.
The accelerated rate at which Puerto Rico is losing population — particularly the younger, productive segment — is placing significant pressure on the island’s housing market, which continues to experience ongoing decreases in sales and rental activity.
Members of a newly formed nonprofit, non-partisan organization under the name Puerto Rico is the Answer has taken upon itself the task of actively help international investor prospects identify and set up attractive business ventures on the island, using fiscal autonomy as the cornerstone of the effort.
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