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Monthly Archives: February, 2010

Economic Crisis Causes Wordwide Tourism Woes

Costa Rican tourism businesses can take solace in the fact they were not the only ones slammed by the Great Recession. According to a report...

Employment Indicator Shows Recent Job Gains

The number of workers enrolled in the Social Security System’s (Caja) health insurance program showed an increase of 1.4 percent in December 2009, the...

Rural Exports Bucked Downward Trend in 2009

The smaller exporters in Costa Rica had a big year in 2009, according to a report issued this week by the Chamber of Exporters...

Texas Blues Legend To Headline Third Costa Rica Blues Fest

The Costa Rica Blues Fest will return Feb. 27 to rock the house at Club Cubano in the western San José suburb of Escazú. Headlining...

Rancho Humo: Wet, Wild and Wonderful

Rancho Humo: Wet, Wild and Wonderful This time of year, Pacific-bound beachgoers cross the TempisqueRiver bridge and speed past miles and miles of dry...

Panama Sets Sights on Reaching ‘First World’ Status

First in a three-part series on Panama’s first-world aspirations   PANAMA CITY, Panama – Apparently someone forgot to tell Panama about the world economic crisis. While other...

Granada Recovering, Poised for Growth

As Granada’s unhappy four-year experiment with a Sandinista municipal government fades into the past, this colonial city by the lake appears to be making...

Political Peacemaking

President-elect Laura Chinchilla, who positioned herself as a centrist during the campaign, is reaching out to both sides of the political spectrum to smooth...

Cooperation on the Border

PANAMA CITY, Panama – Its border region with Costa Rica has always been somewhat of a forgotten frontier for Panama, left to develop at...

From Insurance Agent, With Love

A fictional Gringo who owns a fictional restaurant in the Central Pacific beach town of Jacó has a fictional ficus tree fall on the...

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