COSTA Rican women are havingfewer babies each year, at much later agesthan they used to, the daily La Naciónreported.Statistics from the National Statisticsand Census...
SMALL and medium enterprises(SMEs) can now count on a new resourceto help lessen their impact on the environment,thanks to a 15 million euro ($18million)...
COSTA Ricans consume morebananas and potatoes than any otherfruits or vegetables, according a recentstudy by the Integral Fishing andAgriculture Marketing Program.The study found that...
TWENTY percent of those who visitedCosta Rica in 2004 came to ride the waves.According to Costa Rican Tourism Institute(ICT) statistics, 222,659 tourists came toCosta...
FOR nearly thirty years, many residentsof the southern Caribbean communitiesof Puerto Viejo and Cahuita have livedwith the unstable reality of not owning theland they...
CONSTRUCTION officially beganlast week on the long-awaited, 30-kilometerhighway to the Northern Zone’s largestcity, Ciudad Quesada, a project more than30 years in the making. The...
ANOTHER gas price hike wasapproved this week, while gas consumptionis falling, in part because of highprices.The Public Services RegulatoryAuthority (ARESEP) approved onMonday a 5.7%...
THE Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has agreed to study a complaint filed by the Costa Rican Journalists’ Association against the Costa Rican government...
