All posts tagged "Featured Stories"

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  Jagged Fiscal Peaks

  For all its beauty, pristine beaches, forests and centuries-old architecture, Puerto Rico today is known widely as the land of fiscal cliffs and empty basins. Those rocky debt promontories and infrastructure valleys have come to the forefront...

  • Posted July 1, 2022
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  The Big Differences Between Nixon and Trump

  As the country and the world witnessed on TV the devastating first public hearing of the January 6th Committee beginning to lay out the overwhelming evidence that Donald Trump is the fi rst American president in 235...

  • Posted July 1, 2022
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  Prasa Announces Major Projects

  Water Service Expected to Improve Amid Extreme Drought Periods Despite the recent thunderstorms associated with a tropical wave that left more of Puerto Rico last week, island reservoir levels continue to drop as part of the return...

  • Posted July 1, 2022
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  FOMB to Impose Own Budget

  Legislative Leaders Quarrel Over Failure to Meet Deadline Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB) was expected this week to certify its fiscal year 2023 commonwealth budget proposal after the island’s Legislative Assembly failed to pass...

  • Posted July 1, 2022
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  T-Mobile Leads in Network Experience Report

  Ranks No. 1 in 5G Performance Categories Wireless communications provider T-Mobile Puerto Rico, or the “Uncarrier,” as the company calls itself, announced that according to Opensignal’s report of the PuertoRico Mobile Network Experience, TMobile’s fifth-generation broadband cellular...

  • Posted June 30, 2022
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  Senate to Investigate CRIM Operations

  Judiciary Committee Files Resolution to Begin Probe Amid the harsh fiscal reality faced by Puerto Rico’s municipalities, Sen. Gretchen Marie Hau, chair of the legislative Committee on the Judiciary, along with Sen. Migdalia González, chair of the...

  • Posted June 30, 2022
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  El Patio de la Cerra: New Hangout for Beer Lovers In Santurce

  Pets Welcomed Santurce has a new beer spot and it is the perfect place to cool customers down during the summer heat. The Patio de la Cerra, located on 851 Ernesto Cerra St. in Santurce, offers a...

  • Posted June 30, 2022
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  Act 154 Tax Substitute Bill on Way to Approval

  Lawmaker Assures Measure Will Pass Despite Senate, House Spat The Puerto Rico Legislative Assembly was in the process this week of passing legislation that would replace the Act 154 of 2010 excise tax of 4 percent on...

  • Posted June 30, 2022
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  THINK STRATEGICALLY: The Causes of the Global Food Shortages

  How the Ukraine Conflict is Impacting Food Supplies As each day goes by, the war between Ukraine and Russia continues to destroy lives, with more than 7.7 million Ukrainian refugees, another eight million displaced within other parts...

  • Posted June 24, 2022
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  Act 60 Advocates:

  Incentives Needed to Make Up for Local High Operating Costs Despite criticism of tax breaks granted to attract investors to Puerto Rico, the incentives, particularly those aimed at luring export businesses and high net worth individuals, have...

  • Posted June 24, 2022