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Monthly Archives: May, 2010

Proposed Raise Sparks Outrage

In one of their first moves as elected officials, Costa Rica’s newly arrived legislators voted themselves a 72 percent pay raise. Pointing to salaries in...

Home Fire and Natural Disaster Insurance From INS

The National Insurance Institute’s home fire and natural disaster insurance policy is known as Hogar Seguro 2000. This policy can be used only for...

Storm alerts are on throughout country

  Costa Rica's National Emergency Commission (CNE) declared a yellow alert on Wednesday for the Central Pacific and the Southern Zone as two distinct storm...

Costa Rican ambassador to the United Nations resigns

  Costa Rica's ambassador to the United Nations, Bruno Stagno, resigned on Wednesday after he was accused of a conflict of interest by the country's...

Aerosmith brings sweet emotion to Costa Rica

Steven Tyler is probably the only man in the world who, at age 62, is still considered cool wearing a wardrobe that consists of...

Costa Rica’s Caldera highway called unstable

The Costa Rican Association of Engineers and Architects announced Monday that “urgent intervention” is needed to improve the newly opened Caldera – San José...

One million trees planted to celebrate World Environment Day

As part of its celebration of its 20thanniversary and of World Environment Day, Costa Rica's Earth University will plant a million trees throughout the...

Tico bananas get tariff discount starting Monday

  Europeans may soon be eating more Costa Rican bananas, as tariffs slipped from €176 per ton to €148 on May 31st.   Under an agreement finalized...

U.K., Swiss embassies run errands with new electric cars

The Swiss and United Kingdom embassies are showing off fancy new electric cars. Both countries introduced new service cars that will reduce emissions of greenhouse...

Costa Rica promises ruling on diplomatic mix-up

While the Costa Rican foreign ministry under President Laura Chinchilla is sorting out conflicts resulting from last minute appointments during the Oscar Arias administration,...

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