5 Puerto Rico hotels among ‘100 Most Popular Meeting Resorts’
July 31, 2013
Five Puerto Rico resorts have been included in the list of ‘100 Most Popular Meeting Resorts’ in North America and the Caribbean published by Cvent, one of the world’s largest cloud-based marketplaces for group meetings business.
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Puerto Rico farmers ordered to pay $275K in back wages
July 30, 2013
The U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday it has secured a consent judgment ordering two Sabana Grande farmers to pay a total of $275,000 in back wages and liquidated damages to 174 agricultural workers.
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Puerto Rico Manufacturers Assoc. to host forum on Cuba
July 30, 2013
The Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association will be hosting a forum to discuss business opportunities in Cuba on Aug. 2, in anticipation of an educational mission to the Caribbean island nation, trade group President Waleska Rivera announced.
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‘Marca País’ law creates team to conceive ID for Puerto Rico
July 24, 2013
Flanked by members of his cabinet, lawmakers and private sector representatives, Gov. Alejandro García-Padilla signed a law Tuesday to begin taking formal steps toward creating permanent branding for the island, which is expected to be shielded from political changes or administrative whims.
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Puerto Rico, USVI auto sales drop 2.4% in June
July 18, 2013
Car sales dropped by 2.4 percent in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in June, when 9,388 units rolled off the lots — or 234 fewer than those sold the same month last year, the United Automobile Importers Group (known as GUIA for its initials in Spanish), announced Wednesday.
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‘Marca de País’ bill paves way for permanent Puerto Rico brand
June 5, 2013
Identified as one of the “most emblematic pursuits of Puerto Rico’s legislature in this term,” the House presented a bill establishing the island’s permanent branding to be used in all government advertising campaigns for global projection, both in tourism and economic development.
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Financial analysts to assess Puerto Rico’s economy
April 16, 2013
The Puerto Rican Association of Financial Analysts will meet Thursday to discuss the island’s economic situation and projections for 2013 to 2015, group president Heidie Calero said.
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P.R. Products Assoc. to celebrate local industry
April 5, 2013
The Puerto Rico Products Association will celebrate “Puerto Rican Industry Month” in April with a series of events that seek to foster socioeconomic development, namely the "Made in Puerto Rico Forum,” and its 47th annual convention.
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Puerto Rico nabs Expedia’s ‘Destination of the Year’ honor
January 22, 2013
Expedia Inc. will officially bestow its “Top Destination of the Year” award to the island of Puerto Rico this week, during the Caribbean Travel Marketplace’s annual conference this week in the Bahamas, the online travel company announced Monday.
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Ford leader in ’12 Puerto Rico truck, minivan sales
January 16, 2013
While news from the North America International Auto Show taking place this week comes down from Detroit in every direction, automakers in Puerto Rico are making announcements of their own about how they did among local consumers last year.
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Puerto Rico car sales stall in November
December 17, 2012
The number of vehicles that rolled off the lots in Puerto Rico reached 8,773 units in November, which represented a flat 0.2 percent year-over-year improvement and kept the breaks on nearly 10 months of consecutive growth, the United Automobile Importers Group known as GUIA revealed.
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Connect Puerto Rico: Broadband access has expanded
December 13, 2012
New research unveiled Wednesday by Connect Puerto Rico shows that nearly 85 percent of Puerto Rico households have access to fixed broadband at advertised speeds of at least 3 Mbps download/768 Kbps upload, up from 57 percent one year ago. This represents significant network expansion across the island.
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Font to head EPA’s Puerto Rico, USVI office
December 13, 2012
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that José Font has been selected to lead its Caribbean Environmental Protection Division, covering Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Op-Ed: Puerto Rico, a lost paradise?
December 11, 2012
As tired as I was over a sleepless night —horrified after reading José Enrique Gómez’s murderer’s description of his vicious and vile death and deeply concerned about Puerto Rico’s present and future — I couldn’t miss our standing high-school monthly dinner, especially because two of my very best friends from school were in town.
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News is my Business is now part of Google News
July 26, 2012
We are pleased to announce that effective today, July 26, the content included in News is my Business has become part of the Google News search engine.
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