Business News Review: 7/21 - 28/2012
Mike Nova's starred items - 7:02 AM 7/28/201
via Caribbean Business on 7/20/12
PR jobless rate falls to 13.8% in JunePuerto Rico’s unemployment rate fell to 13.8 percent in June, stretching the run ... 12 dead in Colorado theater shootingAURORA, Colo. — A gunman in a gas mask barged into a crowded Denver-area theater ...  Congress OKs minimum wage freeze in American Samoa to lift economyPAGO PAGO, American Samoa — Congress passed a bill this week to freeze American ... |
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via Caribbean Business on 7/20/12
Colorado suspect is neuroscience gradAURORA, Colo. — A graduate student in a gas mask barged into a crowded Denver-ar ... Employment up, pay down in PR capitalEmployment rose but average wages fell in Puerto Rico’s capital city of San Juan ... |
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via Caribbean Business on 7/20/12
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Colorado suspect was brilliant studentDENVER — James Eagen Holmes came from a well-tended San Diego enclave of two-sto ... |
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via Caribbean Business on 7/21/12
Ricky Martin: 'Having the time of my life'NEW YORK — Ricky Martin says Broadway is a monster that requires discipline, con ... |
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via Caribbean Business on 7/21/12
Caribbean Maroons hope tourism can save cultureCHARLES TOWN, Jamaica — In a backwoods town along a river cutting between green ...  |
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via Caribbean Business on 7/22/12
US pledge to rebuild Haiti not being metPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The deadly earthquake that leveled Haiti's capital m ... PR bankruptcies dip in first half of 2012Bankruptcy filings in Puerto Rico dipped overall in June and remain slightly low ...  Yajaira Sierra dreams of being first Puerto Rican woman in spaceYajaira Sierra Sastre says that dreaming "doesn't cost anything," ...  |
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via Caribbean Business on 7/23/12
Global economy in worst shape since 2009WASHINGTON — Mounting fears about Spain's financial health help illustrate w ...  Report: SJ sees solid hotel occupancy gainSan Juan posted the second highest hotel occupancy rate increase in the Americas ...  Merck investing $80M in Las Piedras plantMerck is investing $80 million to upgrade output capacity at its manufacturing p ...  |
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via Caribbean Business on 7/23/12
Puerto Rico moves to save legal cockfightsEach man clutched a wriggling knapsack and stood in line, anxious to have every ...  |
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via Caribbean Business on 7/24/12
UPR Arecibo moves Gliese 581g to top of its potentially habitable planets listResearchers at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo have moved Gliese 581g t ... Oriental reports $13.8M net for 2QOriental Financial Group reported net income of $13.8 million for the second-qua ...  |
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via Caribbean Business on 7/24/12
Private operator says PR airport is going to require a lot of workThe head of the Mexico-based company that won the concession to operate Luis Muñ ... Survey: Fewer than 1 in 4 trust financial systemA new survey found fewer than one in four Americans trust the financial system a ...  |
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via Caribbean Business on 7/25/12
Cuba says cooperatives by year-endHAVANA — Cuba's economy czar said that plans are in place to begin an experi ...  5 reasons for Spain's colossal economic troublesMADRID — Spain's financial crisis is a lot like peeling an onion: remove one ... |
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via Caribbean Business on 7/25/12
Report: Puerto Rico children grow up in greater poverty than those in USMore than 80 per cent of children in Puerto Rico live in high-poverty areas, acc ...  Small plane crashes into San Juan BayA small plane crashed Wednesday just off the coast of Puerto Rico as it approach ...  |
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via Caribbean Business on 7/26/12
Daddy Yankee takes equity stake, signs on to pitch social media firmPuerto Rican pop star Daddy Yankee has taken an equity stake in the Staree photo ...  USDA: Drought will push up food pricesMINNEAPOLIS — The drought gripping more than half the country is a major reason ...  |
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via Caribbean Business on 7/26/12
Huge DR gold mine 'essentially' finishedThe CEO of the world's largest gold company says production will start in Au ...  |
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via Caribbean Business on 7/26/12
Univision apologizes for PR ad gaffeAmerica's largest Spanish-language media company has angered Puerto Ricans ... |
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via Caribbean Business on 7/26/12
PR hotel numbers up in 2012 first halfThe Puerto Rico Tourism Co. (PRTC) touted Thursday increases in hotel occupancy ... |
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via Caribbean Business on 7/27/12
S&P cuts outlook on public pension systemStandard & Poor’s has lowered its outlook on Puerto Rico Employees Retiremen ...  US economic growth weakens in 2Q; few think it will strengthen soonWASHINGTON — The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of just 1.5 percent from Ap ...  |
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via Caribbean Business on 7/27/12
Raul Castro: Cuba willing to sit down with USHAVANA — Cuban President Raul Castro said Thursday that his government is willin ...  Culson shoulders weight of PR hopesWhen you realize that Puerto Rico has never won an Olympic gold medal in any spo ...  |
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via Caribbean Business on 7/27/12
UK stages spectacular welcome for worldLONDON — Britain greeted the world Friday with an extravagant celebration that i ... |
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via Caribbean News Now!: News from Puerto Rico on 7/25/12
- Curacao celebrates best deals with a fall promotions party
- Where the Music is Always Alive: Jamaica Jazz and Blues 2012
- 'Hopkins Day' celebrated this weekend in Belize
- Montserrat Diaspora gets free lines to connect to local radio
- Haitian PM visits OAS to discuss bilateral cooperation
- Montserrat celebrating 50th Festival this December
- Money laundering: The art of making dirty money appear clean
- Dominican Republic entrepreneurs to get financing assistance
- US to deploy surveillance drones over the Caribbean
- Bahamas to probe Haitian smuggling rings
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via Caribbean News Now!: News from Puerto Rico on 7/26/12
Commentary: Rum parting the ways between US and the Caribbean
July 27, 2012
The rum industry in the non-US countries in the Caribbean is now under serious threat. At risk are the jobs of 15,000 workers directly employed in the industry and another 60,000 jobs that benefit from it. Apart from employment, non-US Caribbean countries face the...- St Kitts-Nevis government engages partners on functioning of new DNS root server
- Garifuna cultural retrieval workshop opens in St Vincent
- First green sea turtle tagged in Nevis by conservationists
- EPA programme focuses on reduction of trade barriers between CARIFORUM and EU
- IMF completes second review of St Kitts-Nevis, disburses US$4.83 million
- 'Emotionally distressed' woman still missing in BVI
- BVI minister to develop code of ethics for reporters
- Grenada opposition leader slams government property purchase
- Stanford gets 110-year sentence for $7 billion fraud
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via Caribbean News Now!: News from Puerto Rico on 7/27/12
- Healthy Living: Ten health mistakes that everyone makes
- Underwater archaeologists dig deep in the Caribbean
- New census show sharp decline in number of rays at Cayman's Stingray City
- Ground broken for new cosmetic clinic in Nevis
- Barbados bans all poultry imports from Mexico
- Sale of CLICO traditional insurance business may be closer
- Only president can remove home affairs minister, says Guyana attorney general
- Cayman Islands to tax foreign workers
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via CARIBBEAN BUSINESS's Facebook Wall by CARIBBEAN BUSINESS on 7/24/12
#ElConquistador shuttering its casino. Read more: http://ow.ly/csAPM #caribbeanbusiness
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UPR #Arecibo moves #Gliese 581g to top of its potentially habitable planets list. Read more: http://ow.ly/csBg4 #caribbeanbusiness
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PR moves to save legal #cockfights. Read more: http://ow.ly/csBFt #caribbeanbusiness
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#Romney calls leak of bin #Laden info #political. Read more: http://ow.ly/csBUg #caribbeanbusiness
Romney calls leak of bin Laden info political - Caribbean Business
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#Geithner hopeful a fiscal crisis can be averted. Read more: http://ow.ly/csC73 #caribbeanbusiness
Geithner hopeful a fiscal crisis can be averted - Caribbean Business
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Mike Nova's starred items
via CARIBBEAN BUSINESS's Facebook Wall by CARIBBEAN BUSINESS on 7/24/12
Authorities in Puerto Rico have found the body of a 17-year-old Canadian who drowned after attending a wedding in the U.S. territory. Read more: http://ow.ly/ctlic #caribbeanbusiness
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#Univision apologizes for PR ad gaffe
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#DaddyYankee takes equity stake, signs on to pitch social media firm. Read more: http://ow.ly/cwQWI http://ow.ly/i/NHXC
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S&P cuts outlook on public pension system. Read more: http://ow.ly/cxP0Q http://ow.ly/i/NOV3 #caribbeanbusiness
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US economic growth weakens in 2Q; few think it will strengthen soon. More: http://ow.ly/cxPY2 #caribbeanbusiness #economy
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Police probe García Padilla death threat http://ow.ly/cxQ9X #caribbeanbusiness #garciapadilla
Police probe García Padilla death threat - Caribbean Business
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#Facebook shares sink to new low after 2Q results. More: http://ow.ly/cxQiJ #caribbeanbusiness
Facebook shares sink to new low after 2Q results - Caribbean Business
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