W Holding Company, Inc., the Financial Holding Company of Westernbank Puerto Rico, Announces Its Second Quarter Earnings Review Teleconference

MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico, July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- W Holding Company, Inc. , the financial holding company of Westernbank Puerto Rico, announced today that Senior Management of the Company will review W Holding's second quarter results via teleconference on Thursday, July 20, 2006, at 2:30 PM (EDT).

Please register at https://www.myrcplus.com/rsvp-index.asp?BWebID=&CID=6148397 . You will be assigned a Personal Identification Number (PIN) that should be used in order to join the conference. Conference dial-in numbers: Toll free: 800-214-0694 or 1-719-955-1425, if you can't dial in with the toll-free number. Conference passcode: 148397.

Westernbank Puerto Rico, a wholly owned subsidiary of W Holding Company, Inc., is the second largest commercial bank in Puerto Rico, based on total assets, operating throughout 55 full-fledged branches, including 33 in the southwestern region of Puerto Rico, 7 in the northeastern region, 13 in the San Juan Metropolitan area of Puerto Rico and 2 in the eastern region of Puerto Rico, and a fully functional banking site on the Internet. W Holding Company, Inc. also owns Westernbank Insurance Corp., a general insurance agent placing property, casualty, life and disability insurance, whose results of operations and financial condition are reported on a consolidated basis.

You may contact Carmen T. Casellas, Investor Relations, with appropriate questions regarding this press release at [phone], [phone] or [phone]; or by email at [e-mail] or the website http://www.wholding.com/ .