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Monthly Archives: December, 2009

Fishing in Costa Rica For Tarpon and Snook on the Río San Juan

The Río San Juan runs from Lake Nicaragua to the Caribbean coast on the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Rich in history, the...

Intel Leads Exports

At a time when Costa Rica’s trade deficit has grown to its largest size in more than a decade, the country’s smallest export continues...

Luxury Tax Deadline Extended to January

Owners of luxury homes in Costa Rica will have until mid-January 2010 to pay the “solidarity tax,” thanks to a determination by tax officials...

Tamarindo water quality starts to improve after long battle with contamination

A new study by the National Water Laboratory revealed perennially high rates of water contamination in Costa Rica´s northern Pacific beach town of Tamarindo...

Incoming businesses a bright spot in dim ’09 economy

In a recession year, a boost to Costa Rica´s struggling economy came with the arrival or relocation of new businesses to the country. Many...

Latin America’s November coffee sales plummet

Combined exports from nine Latin American producers of fine coffee dropped 39 percent in November compared with the same month last year, Guatemala´s National...

H1N1 flu toll still rising in Costa Rica

Costa Rica´s Health Ministry confirmed that a further six people died from the H1N1 flu virus last week, bringing the total number of deaths...

States ‘take note’ at Copenhagen summit but fall short of binding emissions deal

The United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark ended this weekend with a non-binding accord that failed to garner consensus from all nations...

Costa Rican exports down 11 percent from 2008

Keeping pace with the downward economic trend for the year, the Foreign Trade Promotion Office (PROCOMER) announced that Costa Rican exports fell 11 percent...

Airport Construction Enjoys Smooth Flight

Airport engineers and members of the Houston Airport System (HAS), part of the consortium that operates the Juan Santamaría International Airport in Alajuela, west...

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