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Monthly Archives: September, 2006

Toyota Focuses on Education, Not Hibrid Sales

Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s most profitable automaker, and other makers of gasoline-electric vehicles would be forgiven for bypassing Costa Rica when choosing new...

Initiative Seeks to Reduce Adolescent Unemployment

Representatives from the nonprofit Paniamor talked with legislators last week to promote a proposed law to reduce the unemployment rate for young people ages...

Ministry Negotiates With Porteadores

The Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MOPT) Tuesday continued negotiations with private transportation providers, known as porteadores, according to the ministry’s spokesman Juan...

Airport Conflict Worries Business Owners

Business owners this week expressed concern about a years-long conflict between the Costa Rican government and the British consortium Alterra Partners, which was contracted...

Plans for New Marriott in Guanacaste Expanded

To make room for a growing number of visitors in the northwestern province of Guanacaste,Marriott has announced that plans to build its fourth hotel...

Business Leaders Seek Transparent Tax System

Business leaders who have been waiting for months to hear more about the Arias administration s fiscal reform plan have finally received a plate...

Textile Art Event Under Way

Costa Rica this week became the host of the fourth International Biennial of Textile Art and Design, an annual event that is breaking ground...

Warm, Fuzzy Statistics: How Costa Rica Rates

Abooklet called “Pocket World in Figures, 2006 Edition,” put out by The Economist newspaper, brought to my attention a few statistics that made me...

Institute Provides Missionaries Language Training, Cultural Bridge

Sometimes the most routine job can have global and eternal consequences. Just ask Julie Chamberlain. She is the director of the Spanish Language Institute in...

Escazú Group Wins Conservation Prize

The Association for the Conservation and Development of the Escazú Mountains (CODECE) has won one of three “Environmental Torch” prizes granted by the World...

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