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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
From big restaurant chains and hotels, to mom-and-pop establishments, Spanish is commonly spoken in Florida’s commercial kitchens. Seizing on the strength that this cultural diversity lends to the state’s culinary scene, Florida Technical College welcomes the language of Cervantes to its classrooms with a Culinary...
The nominations are for “The Dream Catcher”, a short original film about a stuffed bear that will stop at nothing to protect his child owner from what lurks in the dark at bedtime. Orlando, Fla. – “The Dream Catcher”, The Digital Animation & Visual Effects...
The restaurant chain joined forces with iHeart Radio’s Activados por Puerto Rico and CASA of Central Florida to collect, transport and distribute approximately 200,000 pounds of emergency supplies for hurricane Maria victims. ORLANDO, Fla. (October 17, 2017)-- Cities and towns spanning the entire island of Puerto Rico...
Miami es la primera parada de la gira de conciertos en apoyo a su más reciente producción musical “Invencible.”Invencible” incluye los éxitos “Tarde o Temprano”, “Pronto llegarás”, compuesto junto a Tommy Torres, “Tú”, compuesto junto a Andrés Saavedra, y “Dulce obscenidad”, con la colaboración de...