The impact of the back-to-back hurricanes — Irma and María — on the island has pushed Puerto Rico to “finally hit bottom,” said José Rafael Fernández, CEO of Oriental Financial Group Wednesday, upon announcing the ...
Five weeks after Hurricane María pummeled Puerto Rico, about 72.6 percent of local bank branches, or 228, have resumed operations, according to data from the Office of the Financial Institutions Commissioner.
Puerto Rico has been living through a storm for the past 12 years, and as with every storm, it has experienced different levels of intensity. But the current circumstances have to be handled quickly to ...