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Location of Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico (Spanish for 'rich port'; abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a self-governing Caribbean archipelago and island organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States under the designation of commonwealth.
Reforma de Salud de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Health Reform) – locally referred to as La Reforma ('The Reform') – is a government-run program which provides medical and health care services to the indigent and impoverished, by means of contracting private health insurance companies, rather than employing government-owned hospitals and ...
The BPPR in the logo stands for Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, where the bank has its major historical footprint. Popular, Inc. is the parent company of Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, Popular Bank, E-Loan, and several other companies. The headquarters of Banco Popular Puerto Rico is in Hato Rey, San Juan.
The Puerto Rico Aqueducts and Sewers Authority was established by Law 40 of May 1, 1945. [2]In 1995 the agency was privatized under the administration of governor Pedro Rosselló until 2002 under governor Sila María Calderón when the contract ended.
A joint venture between Quanta Services (USA) and ATCO (Canada), LUMA was created to manage Puerto Rico’s power grid. [1] [2] The contract under which LUMA Energy operates the power grid in Puerto Rico was signed after a bid in 2020. [7] In the bid, five different companies participated and only four submitted business proposals. [2]
Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Infraestructura de Puerto Rico: AFI: Banking: Caño Martín Peña ENLACE Project Corporation: ENLACE: Corporación del Proyecto ENLACE del Caño Martín Peña: ENLACE: Real estate: Cardiovascular Center of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Corporation: CCPRCC: Corporación del Centro Cardiovascular de Puerto ...
The Government of the Commonwealth soon began researching the viability of a megaport in Puerto Rico by conducting land studies throughout the island, economic studies both in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, and visiting existing megaports, such as the Port of Singapore and the Port of Rotterdam, in order obtain an idea of a megaport's ...
María de las Mercedes Barbudo (1773–1849) was a political activist who was the first female "Independentista" meaning that she was the first Puerto Rican woman to become an avid advocate of Puerto Rican Independence, [128] and that she was involved with the Puerto Rican Independence Movement which had ties with the Venezuelan rebels led by ...