In recent weeks, new executives have moved into positions at Liberty International Underwriters and El Mesón Sandwiches, an insurance and retail operation, respectively.
Microfinanzas Puerto Rico and the three campuses that make up the Ana G. Méndez University System recently signed a collaboration agreement to develop and strengthen a business ecosystem that benefits the university students and the communities where the campuses are located, including low-income areas.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $120,000 to Puerto Rico’s Desarrollo Integral del Sur Inc. to help it identify sources of air pollution in the Tallaboa-Encarnación community. The community is located in an industrial area of where there are a number of petrochemical businesses. The project is called "Pulmones Saludables, Ahora!" (“Healthy Lungs, Now!”)
The University of Puerto Rico’s Mayagüez campus is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Industrial Biotechnology Program, which has served as a platform to present innovative technological, research and cutting-edge aspects using the science as a change agent.
The U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday awards exceeding a combined $3 million for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to improve unemployment insurance programs.
Popular Inc. announced Monday that Popular Community Bank, its U.S. banking subsidiary, completed the previously announced sale of its Central Florida regional operations to Harbor Community Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of HCBF Holding Company Inc.
About 3,000 school supplies were delivered by DDR’s Puerto Rico shopping centers to six nonprofit organizations that provide services to children and youth of school age.
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.
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