USDA opens call for $28M in grants for rural businesses
March 31, 2015
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday the availability of $28 million for grants to support rural businesses to help create jobs across the U.S. mainland and Puerto Rico.
chat_bubble0 Comment
visibility3811 Views
UPR Humacao offers free tax preparation services
March 31, 2015
The University of Puerto Rico at Humacao and its School of Business Administration will be offering free services to taxpayers needing to fill out their 2014 returns, the college announced Monday.
chat_bubble0 Comment
visibility5981 Views
Local FASTSIGNS named one of the country’s top stores
March 31, 2015
Local signs and visual graphics provider FASTSIGNS of Guaynabo has been named one of the top centers out of more than 570 locations worldwide at the “2015 FASTSIGNS International Convention,: which was recently held in Dallas, Texas.
chat_bubble0 Comment
visibility5399 Views
Seaborne expands codeshare agreement with AA to USVI
March 31, 2015
Seaborne Airlines announced Monday that effective immediately, its codeshare partnership with American Airlines has been expanded to include both St. Thomas and St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
chat_bubble0 Comment
visibility3125 Views
New $13M Bay Shopping City mall coming to Bayamón
March 30, 2015
The new $13 million renovation of the Bay Shopping City mall is in its final stage, paving the way for the opening of the new retail offering in Bayamón during the last quarter of 2015, mall administrators announced.
chat_bubble2 Comments
visibility6464 Views
Green building growing slowly in Puerto Rico
March 30, 2015
The arresting leaf coverage on the exterior walls of the Banco Popular Foundation's newly inaugurated headquarters in Hato Rey offers the most recent public evidence of the green building revolution that is slowly but progressively taking hold in Puerto Rico.
chat_bubble0 Comment
visibility7424 Views
Op-Ed: Puerto Rico’s glass is not half empty, but half full
March 30, 2015
The Christian Holy Week (“Pascua,”) as well as the Jewish festival of Passover (Pasach) are upon us.
chat_bubble1 Comment
visibility5673 Views
New appointments at Aerostar, MoneyHouse
March 30, 2015
Several appointments came down the pipeline over the past week, with executives at the Luis Muñoz Marín Airport and MoneyHouse taking on new responsibilities at their respective employers.
chat_bubble0 Comment
visibility4274 Views
EcoEléctrica opens SERSKOLA education center
March 30, 2015
Natural gas-based energy company EcoEléctrica recently reaffirmed its commitment to the community by announcing the opening of an education center created under the vision and mission of SER de Puerto Rico-Ponce.
chat_bubble0 Comment
visibility3547 Views
Fitch slashes Puerto Rico’s GO ratings to ‘B’ from ‘BB-‘
March 27, 2015
Fitch Ratings announced Thursday it has downgraded the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico's general obligation and related debt ratings to 'B' from 'BB-' and placed them on Rating Watch Negative.
chat_bubble0 Comment
visibility4259 Views
Ballester goes solar with Yarotek, REC Solar grid
March 27, 2015
Puerto Rican food distributor Ballester Hermanos is looking to slash electricity costs with solar electric system through a partnership with Yarotek, a Miami-based solar developer and independent power producer, and solar and energy solutions provider REC Solar, on an 874 kilowatt rooftop solar system.
chat_bubble0 Comment
visibility4588 Views
Former Rockefeller property in Dorado on sale for $8.5M
March 27, 2015
A historic 3.8-acre property on which Laurance Rockefeller built his estate within one of the Caribbean’s most coveted stretches of oceanfront land, Dorado Beach, is now on the market for $8.5 million, Trillion Real Estate Group announced Thursday.
chat_bubble0 Comment
visibility12134 Views
The Mall of San Juan opens today with 1/3 of tenants
March 26, 2015
When Puerto Rico’s newest shopping center, The Mall of San Juan, opens today, it will do so with about a third of the tenant mix it expects to populate the 650,000 square-foot retail space by year’s end.
chat_bubble0 Comment
visibility6700 Views
EDB spurs creation of 217 new businesses, 1,668 jobs
March 26, 2015
The Puerto Rico Economic Development Bank announced Wednesday it has spurred the creation of 217 new businesses since January 2013, through $22.3 million in approved financing.
chat_bubble0 Comment
visibility2946 Views
Colombia seeks more investment from the Caribbean
March 26, 2015
Colombia’s government promotion agency, Procolombia, is looking to boost foreign direct investment by attracting Caribbean investors who are looking to reach South America, as Colombia is a strategic export platform for the region, including Puerto Rico.
chat_bubble0 Comment
visibility3535 Views
A Dow Jones/Factiva content provider since 2014
Subscribe to our Dollars & Sense podcast!
NIMB ON SOCIAL MEDIA