World

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  IEEFA report: Oil-purchase scandal undermines privatization, contract reform at Puerto Rico power company

  Finds scheme contributed to utility’s ruin and whistleblower suppression; potential grounds for bondholder claims

  • Posted July 18, 2018
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  Facebook to hold next Boost Your Business conference in Mayagüez

  Offers Blueprint, or free e-learning courses

  • Posted July 18, 2018
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  Startup raises nearly $9 million to commercialize lab-grown meat

  Merck backing could accelerate product's market arrival

  • Posted July 17, 2018
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  Some 72,000 people return to Puerto Rico in first 4 months of 2018

  Data confirm return of island residents after Hurricane Maria

  • Posted July 13, 2018
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  Puerto Rico blockchain advisory board holds first meeting

  Establishes plan to present proposals for initiatives, projects

  • Posted July 13, 2018
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  Starbucks to eliminate plastic straws by 2020

  Looking to develop a recyclable, compostable cup 

  • Posted July 9, 2018
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  Nearly $1.7 million assigned for access to STEM education, fostering agriculture and natural resource protection

  To recruit 12 students for post-grad STEM studies, for nonprofit to train farmers and...

  • Posted June 13, 2018
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  Report: World Cup to boost global adspend by $2.4 billion this year

  Investment in Puerto Rico estimated at $3.5 million

  • Posted June 11, 2018
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  Harvard survey: Some 4,600 may have died in Puerto Rico in aftermath of Hurricane Maria

  Would make it 2nd deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history

  • Posted May 29, 2018
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  NOAA predicts ‘near- or above-normal’ Atlantic hurricane season

  New satellite data, model upgrades to give forecasts a boost

  • Posted May 24, 2018