The government of Puerto Rico announced Wednesday the launch of an a bondholder registry to improve and facilitate communications with more than 500,000 creditors holding debt issued by the Commonwealth and its public corporations and instrumentalities.
The Puerto Rico State Department has a backlog of about 20,000 trademark and corporation registration applications pending review, which it is looking to eliminate this year, Secretary of State David Bernier said Tuesday.
More than 2,000 Puerto Rican companies have received their digital certifications through the government’s online bidders registry launched four months ago, General Services Administration Chief Olga M. de Cardona-Martínez told News is my Business.
The implementation of the terms of Law 280, which established a mandatory prepaid mobile phone registry, has been postponed indefinitely, News is my Business learned Thursday.
As part of the final phase of the Corporations Registry digitization project, Secretary of State Kenneth McClintock announced Wednesday the start of a five-month grace period so that companies with past-due annual reports can become current.
The four largest wireless carriers serving the island banded together Thursday to express their concern over House Bill 1956 that seeks to create a registry of prepaid phone numbers in an attempt to keep track of the devices that have become a conduit for criminal activity.
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