The Federal Communications Commission announced it has awarded 84.5 million over 10 years to Broadband VI to provide 1 gigabit per second fixed broadband service to all locations in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The funding is through the Connect USVI Fund’s Stage 2 competitive process, which will extend high-speed broadband to 46,039 locations in the […]
In 2020, USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) continued its tradition of working in partnership with farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners in the Caribbean area — Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands — despite hardships from earthquakes to COVID-19 to tropical storms. “Our data and science-based surveys of our work show that we and […]
The U.S. Small Business Administration announced that 2,067 small businesses in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands were awarded $618.8M in federal contracts during Fiscal Year 2019. The information is included in the agency’s Fiscal Year 2019 Small Business Federal Procurement Scorecard, which confirms that $132.9 billion in prime federal contracts — 26.5% of […]
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