After three rounds of voting, Costa Rican lawmakers on Tuesday night elected journalist Montserrat Solano Carboni as the country's new ombudswoman for the next four years.
Expectations for companies to hire new workers in the last quarter of this year have dropped in all sectors and are at the lowest level in recent years, the consultant company Manpower reported on its Costa Rica Employment Outlook Survey 4Q released Tuesday.
San José's Juan Santamaría International Airport is often busy, but it became a zoo on Tuesday when police discovered 170 live animals in the luggage of a passenger headed to Panama.
The program will offer training and educational assistance to improve the competitiveness of small and medium-sized businesses, but the news came on the heels of a Hanes Brand Clothing subsidiary closing its operations in Cartago, and laying off 1,250 workers because of more favorable conditions in Vietnam.
Google celebrated Costa Rica’s Children’s Day on Tuesday with one of the search giant’s iconic doodles (only visible in Costa Rica). Since 1946, Costa Rica...
Leaders of the National Tourism Chamber (CANATUR) on Tuesday said they will use all available legal tactics to challenge a Finance Ministry order to start collecting 13 percent sales tax on all tourism activities, including several that previously were exempt.
Municipal officials in the southern San José canton of Desamparados on Monday confirmed that property owners in a protected area known as Mt. Tablazo are continuing construction in spite of cease and desist orders from that office and the Municipality of El Guarco, in the province of Cartago.
The French-Costa Rican School in Concepción de Tres Ríos, east of San José, hosted the National Rugby Championship Sunday. In the men's league Stag Rugby Football Club took down the University of Costa Rica 19-8. The Wak Rugby club took home the trophy in the the women's league beating The University of Costa Rica (UCR Rugby) 26-5.
