Puerto Rico lottery players now have a new option through which to buy their tickets: brightly colored, free-standing, self-service ticket vending machines recently installed at several big box retailers in the San Juan metropolitan area. Lottery officials are betting the machines could generate close to an extra $1 million a year in gaming sales, this media outlet learned Tuesday.
Ford Motor Company cruised through the first half of 2011, with a reported 37 percent increase in year-over-year vehicle sales in Puerto Rico, at a time when the industry had an overall growth of 1.9 percent, company officials said Thursday.