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Fortuño: P3s can save US infrastructure
Issued: June 5, 2013
Former Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuño is pushing his administration’s public-private partnership model as an avenue for the U.S. to shore up its aging...
Borinqueneers gain ground in Congress
Issued: June 5, 2013
The U.S. Senate appears set to join the U.S. House of Representatives in taking up legislation to award the Congressional Gold Medal to Puerto Rican...
US bill: $5.6M for Camp Santiago work
Issued: June 5, 2013
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a spending bill for the next federal budget year that includes $5.6 million for construction to expand...
Giraud joins ‘Real Housewives’ cast
Issued: June 5, 2013
Former Miss Puerto Rico Universe Joyce Giraud is joining the cast of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.” ...
Opportunity in online shipping limits
Issued: June 5, 2013
A group of young Puerto Rico entrepreneurs has launched an Internet-based service to forward purchases by local consumers from online retailers that...
St. Jude: $3.2M expansion in Arecibo
Issued: June 5, 2013
St. Jude Medical is investing some $3.2 million to add a production line at its manufacturing plant in Arecibo. ...
Signs of progress in ongoing budget talks
Issued: June 5, 2013
Legislative leaders and Treasury Secretary Melba Acosta met again Tuesday as they work to hammer out a tax deal to fund Gov. Alejandro García...
MLB to host draft showcase in PR
Issued: June 5, 2013
Major League Baseball is staging its second annual draft showcase for Puerto Rican players at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan this month. ...
Popular declares dividends, distributions
Issued: June 5, 2013
Popular Inc. announced Wednesday that it has declared the following monthly cash dividends on its outstanding shares of Non-cumulative Monthly Income...
White House: $36M for PR in preschool plan
Issued: June 4, 2013
Puerto Rico would get nearly $36 million in federal funding in a year under President Barack Obama’s ambitious plan to expand early childhood...
Bill to shield PR brand from political shifts
Issued: June 4, 2013
The House of Representatives was poised Tuesday to approve legislation calling for the creation of a new Puerto Rico brand and a panel to monitor its...
PR ad agency sells ‘whopper’ of a joke
Issued: June 4, 2013
A Puerto Rico ad agency has the Internet buzzing with its campaign for a hands-free Whopper holder for Burger King. ...
Schankel: Prompt action key to avoid downgrade
Issued: June 4, 2013
The Puerto Rico government’s finance team has demonstrated a strong grasp of the challenges confronting the island, but it must now “promptly deliver”...
US Senate sets hearing on PR status
Issued: June 4, 2013
A U.S. Senate committee will hold a hearing next week into the results of the election-day status plebiscite in Puerto Rico last November. ...
Feds probing school funds fraud
Issued: June 4, 2013
Federal agents staged raids in Caguas and Cidra on Tuesday as part of an ongoing probe into fraud related to the transport of public school students. ...
58 undocumented Haitians reach Mona
Issued: June 4, 2013
A group of 58 undocumented Haitian immigrants landed at tiny Desecheo Island early Tuesday morning. ...
19 more charged in Guaynabo vote fraud
Issued: June 4, 2013
Another 19 people were charged Tuesday in an ongoing probe of electoral fraud in Guaynabo during last year’s primaries, Puerto Rico Justice Secretary...
Dozens of bridges in PR need pressing repairs
Issued: June 4, 2013
Dozens of bridges in Puerto Rico are in need of urgent repairs that will carry a total price tag of roughly $50 million, according to the island’s...
Data shows deep glut of lawyers in PR
Issued: June 4, 2013
Puerto Rico appears to have one of the deepest gluts of lawyers in the United States. ...
PR soldiers start Guantanamo mission
Issued: June 4, 2013
A group of some 125 Army Reserve soldiers from Puerto Rico left the island this week on a year-long mission that will take them to Guantanamo Naval...
GDB opens annual summer internship program
Issued: June 4, 2013
The Government Development Bank is launching its 11th internship program of the José M. Berrocal Institute for Economics and Finance (the...
Rivera confirmed as PRTC director
Issued: June 3, 2013
The island Senate voted unanimously on Monday to confirm Ingrid Rivera Rocafort as director of the Puerto Rico Tourism Co. ...
Governor says B2B levy still in play as clock ticks
Issued: June 3, 2013
Gov. Alejandro García Padilla is discarding any cuts to his proposed $9.83 billion budget and is pushing ahead with a planned business-to-business tax...
PR bankruptcies on rise in 2013
Issued: June 3, 2013
Bankruptcy filings in Puerto Rico rose in May and are tracking higher through the first five months of 2013. ...
Crowley adds PR-Central America runs
Issued: June 3, 2013
Crowley Maritime’s Caribbean logistics group is now offering regularly scheduled, weekly less-than-containerload (LCL) services to and from San Juan...


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