Original Post: https://communitynewspapers.com A Puerto Rican solar energy company with offices in Central Florida and South Florida received a major national award for initiatives it deployed to build a more energy-independent Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria left the island in the dark for almost a year. Maximo Solar Industries, is the first runner-up of Solar Power 2018 Most Forward-Thinking, an award given…
Original Post – https://www.elnuevodia.com Orlando, Florida – Máximo Solar Industrias, empresa puertorriqueña de energía solar que tiene oficinas en Orlando y Fort Lauderdale, fue primera finalista en un concurso donde se reconocieron iniciativas renovables tras el paso del huracán María en Puerto Rico. El premio Solar Power 2018 Most Forward-Thinking, lo concede la entidad Solar…
Original Post: https://www.bloombergquint.com Puerto Rico’s biggest brewery had a problem: Beer demand was plummeting, the population was shrinking and Hurricane Maria had shut at least 1,000 retailers and bars that poured its product. So in March, the maker of Medalla hired a distributor and started selling its cheap and ubiquitous lager on the mainland. Now,…
PRESS RELEASE ORLANDO, Fla. – A Puerto Rican solar energy company with offices in Orlando and Fort Lauderdale received a major national award for initiatives it deployed to build a more energy-independent Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria left the island in the dark for almost a year. Maximo Solar Industries is the first runner-up of…
Original Post: https://www.bizjournals.com Latin restaurant chain Meson Sandwiches isn’t resting on its laurels when it comes to its U.S. expansion plan in Orlando. Puerto Rico-based Meson Sandwiches — which opened its third Central Florida location earlier this year near Orlando International Airport and has a fourth in the works near The Mall at Millenia set…
Original Post: https://features.weather.com A year after Hurricane Maria destroyed Vimarie Cardona’s home in Puerto Rico, she and two daughters faced homelessness in Central Florida. The federal program paying for their stay in a hotel near Orlando was set to end. Cardona’s full-time job, making beds at a Disney hotel, doesn’t pay enough to rent an…
Original Post: https://www.elnuevodia.com Orlando, Fla. – Ella es la gladiadora de algunas de las marcas puertorriqueñas más emblemáticas que han aterrizado en Florida central. Y las defiende no porque sea su trabajo, sino porque las consume y está convencida de que son buenos productos. La diáspora post-María, ese piso poblacional que se fraguó en Florida…
Original Post: https://www.pbs.org Vimarie Cardona and her three children have spent the past 10 months living in a hotel room paid for by the federal government, after evacuating to the U.S. mainland from Puerto Rico when Hurricane Maria damaged the family’s home last year. But now, on the one eve of the hurricane’s one-year anniversary,…
Original Post: https://www.brewbound.com ORLANDO, Fla. — On September 7, as the nation pays hommage to the third most popular drink overall after water and tea during National Beer Lover’s Day, Medalla Light beer will mark the occasion by introducing in Florida its popular 12 oz. bottle as it reaches the milestone of 1,000 point of sales in the state. Puerto Rico’s flagship…
Original Post: https://www.huffingtonpost.com It’s been a year since Hurricane Maria upended Jennyfer Ortiz’s life. The single mother fled Puerto Rico with her two children after their house in the mountain town of Orocovis lost power. They have been using a government-funded program to pay for a hotel in the Bronx, but that ended last week,…